Rothschild retreat

A Tribute to Mirfam Rothschild:

In a recent essay, I reviewed the latest publications of 1S1 Press$) .1 Among these is a biography of the turn-of-thecentury British zoologist, Walter Rothschild, entitled Dear Lord iZofhschifd: Birds, Butte&ies and History.2 The book was written by Miriam Rothschdd, a d~tinguished entomologist who is also Walter’s niece. She has produced a most entertaining and informative account of his life ...

The mathematics of Bruce Rothschild

A review is given of some of the mathematical research of Bruce Rothschild, emphasizing his results in combinatorial theory, especially that part known as Ramsey Theory. Special emphasis is given to the Graham-Rothschild Parameter Sets Theorem, its consequences, and some extensions.

Neuroscience Retreat

Conditionals and Propositions in Semantics ⇤ Daniel Rothschild

The project of giving an account of meaning in natural languages goes largely by assigning truth-conditional content to sentences. I will call the view that sentences have truth-conditional content propositionalism as it is common to identify the truth-conditional content of a sentence with the proposition it expresses. This content plays an important role in our explanations of the speech-acts...

A Rothschild-Stiglitz Approach to Bayesian Persuasion

* Gentzkow: Department of Economics, Stanford University, 579 Serra Mall, Office 321, Stanford, CA 94305 (e-mail: [email protected]); Kamenica: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 (e-mail: [email protected]). We thank the Sloan Foundation and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business for financial support. † Go...