This essay reviews John Gardner’s recent books, From Personal Life to Private Law, and Torts Other Wrongs. Both books offer profound insights into private law’s concerns with justice our reasons for action. The focuses on continuity thesis, in particular his idea that a third party (such as the state) may act behalf of wrongdoer her delegee. Three settings are considered. First, I will discuss ...

This paper discusses some aspects of the notion of scientific progress based on the reconstruction of two exemplary economic research programmes. These programmes are the Austrian School of Economics and OTHMAR SPANN’S Intuitive Universalism—two programmes that fought for intellectual leadership during the inter-war period in Austria. The philosophical framework used for the discussion is the I...

Church’s Problem asks for the construction of a procedure which, given a logical specification φ on sequence pairs, realizes for any input sequence I an output sequenceO such that (I,O) satisfies φ. McNaughton reduced Church’s Problem to a problem about two-player ω-games. Büchi and Landweber gave a solution for Monadic Second-Order Logic of Order (MLO) specifications in terms of finite-state s...