claims, and less familiar with what has been said and argued? True, both compatibilist and incompatibilist philosophers have made claims about what ordinary people believe about free will and moral responsibility (for examples, see Nahmias et al. 2006, 29– 30), and such claims are best tested empirically. What is not clear is how much stock philosophers should put in such ordinary beliefs. Acco...

Conceptual analyses can be subdivided into two classes, good and evil. Empirical analysis is the good kind, routinely practiced in the sciences. Orthodox analysis is the malevolent version that plagues philosophical discourse. In this paper, I will clarify the difference between them, provide some reasons to prefer good over evil, and illustrate their consequences for the metaphysics of causati...

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We introduce a new synchronization problem in mobile ad-hoc systems: the Driving Philosophers. In this problem, an unbounded number of driving philosophers (processes) access a round-about (set of shared resources organized along a logical ring). The crux of the problem is to ensure, beside traditional mutual exclusion and starvation freedom at each particular resource, gridlock freedom (i.e., ...

Presenting a paper to any conference with the name ‘Keynes’ in the title, particularly to one sponsored by the Post Keynesian Study Group, is fraught with danger. For the exegitical debate about ‘what Keynes really meant’ is often carried out with as much fervour as the arguments between the Fathers of the early Church. Indeed, some of the latter material has a familiar sound. Origen, for examp...

Here is a collection of interesting problems in geometry. Solution of each problem requires only one non-trivial idea. The project is oriented to graduate students who want to learn fast simple tricks in geometry. For problem solvers. Easy problems are marked by “◦” and hard problems by “∗”. If the solution requires knowledge of some not quite standard theorem it is marked by “+”, in this case ...

in the last two decades, a theory has been presented by some moslem philosophers, which implies that the paradise and the hell are not but the incarnations of man's behavior which appear to him in different ways. this article is an attempt to explain and criticize this viewpoint, which has been rejected by theologians and approved by philosophers. it is finally claimed that even though som...