The biblical book of Jonah has been the subject multiple literary retellings, ranging from individual poems to whole novels and theatrical dramas. This article focuses on interaction with in 20th-century world literature, where becomes our alter ego; he embodies own struggles God. I shall highlight three common tropes retellings: (1) Several retellings use character express a person’s failure e...

The paper begins with an objection to the DesireBased Reasons Model. The argument from reason-based desires holds that since desires are based on reasons (first premise), which they transmit but to which they cannot add (second premise), they cannot themselves provide reasons for action. In the paper I investigate an attack that has recently been launched against the first premise of this argum...

*Correspondence: Sasha R. X. Dall, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ, Exeter, UK e-mail: [email protected] The study of animal personality variation promises to provide significant new insight into the way that behavior evolves in animals, along with its ecological and evolutio...

Most non-economists would question whether economists know anything about culture. Indeed, given some faculty meetings I’ve been through, I imagine they might go so far as to say economists are uncultured. Although the second sentiment probably does go too far, there is certainly merit to the first. In particular, with a few exceptions (notably Kreps, 1990; Crémer, 1993; Lazear, 1995; Hodgson, ...

Coccolithophore response to climate and surface hydrography in Santa Barbara Basin, California, AD 1917–2004 M. Grelaud, A. Schimmelmann, and L. Beaufort CEREGE, Europôle de l’Arbois, BP80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4, France Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405-1403, USA Received: 3 September 2008 – Accepted: 15 September ...

It is the purpose of the present paper to highlight the figure of Eubulides, a relatively unknown Greek philosopher who lived ±405–330 BC and taught at Megara, not far from Athens. He is mainly known for his four paradoxes (the Liar, the Sorites, the Electra, and the Horns), and for the mutual animosity between him and his younger contemporary Aristotle. The Megarian school of philosophy was on...

We have been aware from the beginning that the mere act of providing such a list is to ask for dissent and disparagement. To start with, what does “important” mean? Does it just mean popular? Is DukeElder on the list just because a lot of copies of his book were sold? It is our hope to call a book important when there seems to be some agreement that the book has made a significant contribution ...