In “The Location Problem for Color Subjectivism,” Peter Ross argues against what he calls subjectivism — the view that “colors are not describable in physical terms, ... [but are] mental processes or events of visual states” (2), and in favor of physicalism — a view according to which colors are “physical properties of physical objects, such as reflectance properties” (10). He rejects an argume...

17 In any case, it seems that the problem of the relation between the universe and the laboratory will be a knotty one to unravel, and perhaps it may replace the Thales problem as the central question in physics. Hopefully, it will take us less than 2500 years to solve it.

According to Article 1 of the ASEAN Charter, one of the purposes of ASEAN is “to promote an ASEAN identity through the fostering of greater awareness of the diverse cultures and heritage of the region” (ASEAN Secretariat 2011, 5). In the ASEAN Vision 2020 issued in December 1997 during the group’s annual meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, one of the directives was defined thus: “We envision the...

Researchers disagree over the definition, measurement, and expected political consequences of American patriotism, a situation that is fueled by the absence of a strong theoretical research foundation. We develop and evaluate a new measure of national attachment that is grounded in social identity theory (Tajfel and Turner 1979), drawing on data from three distinct sources: two studies of under...

In the paper a Picone-type identity for half-linear differential equations of second order is derived and Sturmian theory for both forced and unforced halflinear and quasilinear equations based on this identity is developed.

In this paper, we study inverses and quotients of mappings between ordered sets, in particular between complete lattices, which are analogous to inverses and quotients of positive numbers. We investigate to what extent a generalized inverse can serve as a left inverse and as a right inverse, and how an inverse of an inverse relates to the identity mapping. The generalized inverses and quotients...

Weyl denominator identity for finite-dimensional Lie superalgebras conjectured by V. Kac and M. Wakimoto is proven.

A number of philosophers have recently argued that (i) consciousness properties are identical with some set of physical or functional properties and that (ii) we can explain away the frequently felt puzzlement about this claim as a delusion or confusion generated by our different ways of apprehending or thinking about consciousness. This paper examines David Papineau's influential version of th...