Although Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (ZFC) is generally accepted as the appropriate foundation for modern mathematics, proof theorists have known for decades that virtually all mainstream mathematics can actually be formalized in much weaker systems which are essentially number-theoretic in nature. Feferman has observed that this severely undercuts a famous argument of Quine and Putnam accordin...

Some aestheticians, e.g., Peter Kivy,' are Platonists about pieces of music. They hold that a piece of music is the sound structure indicated by the notation, and that performances are (or, present) tokens of the sound structure, i.e., tokens of a type. Other philosophers, e.g., Jerrold Levinson, deny this; in Kivy's terminology they are anti-Platonists. Levinson holds that the essential charac...

Newer parts of sex chromosomes, neo-sex chromosomes, offer unique possibilities for studying gene degeneration and sequence evolution in response to loss of recombination and population size decrease. We have recently described a neo-sex chromosome system in Sylvioidea passerines that has resulted from a fusion between the first half (10 Mb) of chromosome 4a and the ancestral sex chromosomes. I...

Abstract This chapter examines the Platonizing myths of Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch, and (to a lesser degree) Aelius Aristides, in light our evidence for both philosophical literary-rhetorical reception Plato’s own myths. It argues that, while reflections development Platonism as systematic philosophy can be detected them, it hard may some respects pointless to disentangle this input neatly from r...

Previously this laboratory characterized Slc39a8-encoded ZIP8 as a Zn(2+)/(HCO(3)(-))(2) symporter; yet, the overall physiological importance of ZIP8 at the whole-organism level remains unclear. Herein we describe the phenotype of the hypomorphic Slc39a8(neo/neo) mouse which has retained the neomycin-resistance gene in intron 3, hence causing significantly decreased ZIP8 mRNA and protein levels...