In ‘Comparing Context Updates in Delineation and Scale Based Models of Vagueness’, Christoph Roschger argues that two frameworks, due respectively to Kyburg & Morreau and Barker, bear important similarities to each other in certain respects. Roschger begins by summarizing the respective frameworks, which I will not repeat, and proceeds to define four mappings: for each framework, he provides a ...

Books are my greatest weakness and collecting them and other printed material is something I have done all of my life. I still spend several hours a week wandering around in bookshops, and the reason I’m late for appointments in Cambridge is that I have a flat above a bookseller with a large stock of remaindered and second-hand books. My passion for the printed word began soon after I learnt to...

it is inevitable that healthcare workers throughout their careers will witness actual or potential threats to patient safety in the course of their work. some of these threats will result in serious harm occurring to others, whilst at other times such threats will result in minimal harm, or a ‘near miss’ where harm is avoided at the last minute. despite organizations encouraging employees to ‘s...

There are many good books written on the topics of combat modeling and distributed simulation and most of them are used as references in this book, so why write another book on this topic? The reason is simple: while all other books in this domain successfully highlight special topics in detail none of them compiles the basic knowledge of all contributing fields that a simulation engineer needs...

In his preface the translator undertakes to show the significance of psychoanalysis in modern psychology. When psychology was elevated to the dignity of a science during the latter half of the 19th century, ho says, it became so anxious to imitate the quantitative methods of the other sciences, particularly the physical sciences, that the real subject matter of psychology was lost, and the new ...

The article that follows is part of the Schizophrenia Bulletin's ongoing First Person Accounts series. We hope that mental health professionals—the Bulletin's primary audience—will take this opportunity to learn about the issues and difficulties confronted by consumers of mental health care. In addition, we hope that these accounts will give patients and families a better sense of not being alo...

The field of cognitive psychology has increasingly provided scientific insights to explore how humans are subject to unconscious sources of evidentiary bias, leading to errors that can affect judgement and decision-making. Increasingly these insights are being applied outside the realm of individual decision-making to the collective arena of policy-making as well. A recent editorial in this jou...