In this paper I provide a defence of real-world cases as legitimate part the philosopher’s toolkit, in addition to austere thought experiments and fictional that are more commonly used. argue effective because they streamline out extraneous details might distract philosopher from principle under investigation. But doing so run risk inadvertently removing relevant information, thus preventing la...

This paper makes explicit some issues of gender that have been implicitly raised in recent discussions concerning the recovery European women's contributions to history seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy. A useful way bring these light is distinguish between project recovering justifying their inclusion. The former an important effort provide a more accurate understanding Within lat...

Concurrent runs reveal more insight into distributed systems than interleaved runs. This is shown by help of Dijkstra’s paradigm of five philosophers. 1. The problem Antoni Mazurkiewicz’ seminal work on traces boosted the acceptance of Carl Adam Petri’s idea to conceive a single run (behaviour) of a distributed system not as a sequence of global states and steps, totally ordered in time, but as...