Radical skepticism is the view that we know nothing or at least next to nothing. Nearly no one actually believes that skepticism is true. Yet it has remained a serious topic of discussion for millennia and it looms large in popular culture. What explains its persistent and widespread appeal? How does the skeptic get us to doubt what we ordinarily take ourselves to know? I present evidence from ...

An Essex-headquartered company which claims to manufacture the world's leading "brand" of glass vision panel, is calling for legislation to regulate the quality and design of such products. With no statutory governance currently in place, it is concerned that a rash of badly-designed, poorer quality variants, that it says have emerged in recent years, pose a significant self-harm and ligature r...

Through the analysis of a mathematical model we construct in this paper the full catalog of possible love stories among standard (i.e., secure and non-synergic) individuals. For this, we first distinguish between robust and fragile couples, i.e., couples which have one or two stable equilibria. We also distinguish between high and low quality relationships by looking at the sign of the feelings...