Sharvy’s puzzle concerns a situation in which common knowledge of two parties is obtained by repeated observation each of the other, no fixed point being reached in finite time. Can a fixed point be reached?

El presente trabajo se ocupa de la relación intelectual entre Walter Benjamin y Carl Schmitt. Su punto partida viene dado por célebre misiva a Schmitt propósito origen del Trauerspiel alemán, así como las referencias Teología política que cabe encontrar en obra benjaminiana sobre el barroco. Sin embargo, continuación demuestra importancia La dictadura, Schmitt, para caracterización soberano bar...

Broadly speaking, the term ‘exploitation’ can be applied to a number of different kinds of interaction. Mineral deposits, mistakes, workers, and wombs are all said to be exploited. One sense of exploitation, often applied to the extraction of resources, or capitalising on an opponent’s mistaken move in a board game, connotes mere use or advantage taking. Exploitation in this sense need not impl...

The recent publication of a biography by his grandson reminded me of Benjamin Moore senior’s contributions on social medicine.1 The book is dedicated to “Dr. G.A.J. Pitt (who first suggested the biography) and in memory of my father, Dr. T. Moore (1900-1999).” The author was born in Cambridge and saw active service as an officer in the Royal Ulster Rifles in the Korean War (1950-1953). He gradu...