Unholy Territory

Supervenience, Emergence, and Epiphenomenalism: Physicalism’s Unholy Trinity

FGF-23, vitamin D and calcification: the unholy triad.

Recent studies have changed the commonly held view that phosphate is mostly needed for normal skeletal growth and development. Extensive research in the last decade has identified numerous other essential dynamic functions for phosphate, ranging from signalling to energy metabolism. Abnormal phosphate homeostasis potentially affects functional activities of almost any organ system. Despite its ...

Heritage and Tourism in Ireland -an unholy alliance?

With the opening of the long-awaited Boyne Valley Centre in Summer 1997, the time has perhaps come to reassess the relationship between heritage and tourism in Ireland. In recent years, particularly since the start of the 1990s, there has been considerable debate and controversy about heritage issues, illustrating a high degree of public interest in the field. This paper outlines the main featu...

The unholy trinity: taxonomy, species delimitation and DNA barcoding.

Recent excitement over the development of an initiative to generate DNA sequences for all named species on the planet has in our opinion generated two major areas of contention as to how this 'DNA barcoding' initiative should proceed. It is critical that these two issues are clarified and resolved, before the use of DNA as a tool for taxonomy and species delimitation can be universalized. The f...

Unholy Trinity: Labor, Capital, and Land in the New Economy

My theme in these lectures is the capacity of the methods of the Classical political economists, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and their critic, Karl Marx, to reveal the self-organizing character of the capitalist economy regarded as a complex, adaptive, non-equilibrium system. From one point of view this is an exercise in anachronism, since the language of complex systems theory a...