Reply to Maher and Lewis

Maudlin’s Challenge Refuted: A Reply to Lewis

Lewis has recently argued that Maudlin’s contingent absorber experiment remains a significant problem for the Transactional Interpretation (TI). He argues that the only straightforward way to resolve the challenge is by describing the absorbers as offer waves, and asserts that this is a previously unnoticed aspect of the challenge for TI. This argument is refuted in two basic ways: (i) it is no...

A reply to DeVico, Lewis & Gallo (2015).

Priorities in health care: reply to Lewis and Charny.

This paper is a reply to proposals to base priority health-care decisions on public opinion surveys. Whilst it is recognised that current practice is less than satisfactory, it is argued here that basing health-care priorities on societal attitudes in this way is not a solution and does not provide a satisfactory basis for bringing democracy to the health service.

Overcoming Diffi culties in Bayesian Reasoning: A Reply to Lewis and Keren (1999) and Meilers and McGraw (1999)

Bayesian reasoning can be improved by representing information in frequency formats rather than in probabilities. This thesis opens up applications in medicine, law, statistics education, and other fi elds. The benefi cial effect is no longer in dispute, but rather its cause and its boundary conditions. C. Lewis and G. Keren (1999) argued that the effect of frequency formats is due to “joint st...

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