Proportionality in War: Revising Revisionism

Functionalism, revisionism, and qualia

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The Population Debate in Historical Perspective: Revisionism Revisited 1.0 Revisionism and the Population Debate 1.1 Setting

Demographic Studies, Duke University. An early version of this paper was presented at the Nobel Symposium in Economics, December 5-7, Lund, Sweden, 1991. I wish to acknowledge comments on this earlier draft by Nancy Birdsall, John Bongaarts, Martin Bronfenbrenner, A. W. Coats, Ansley J. Coale, Peter J. Donaldson, Richard A. Easterlin, Dennis Hodgson, Nathan Keyfitz, Geoffrey McNicoll, Thomas W....

Risk and revisionism in arsenic cancer risk assessment.

Oral exposures of nonoccupational populations to environmental inorganic arsenic are associated with skin and internal cancers as well as various noncarcinogenic effects. Cancer risk assessments have been based largely on epidemiological studies of a large population exposed to inorganic arsenic in well water in Taiwan. Criticisms and skepticism of the use of the Taiwanese data for estimating a...

Proportionality in Modern Asymmetrical Wars

Transitivity and proportionality in causation

It is widely assumed that causation is transitive, but putative counterexamples abound. These examples come in three varieties: switching cases, short circuit cases, and what I will call mismatch cases. In this paper I focus on the mismatch variety, which is widely taken to be the easiest to resolve. I will first introduce the cases and the existing strategy for dealing with them, then present ...