Knowledge involves belief. Belief is a propositional attitude, i.e. an attitude that a subject holds towards a proposition. If a subject S knows that P and the proposition P involves no further knowledge attribution, let us say that S possesses first-order knowledge. On the other hand, if S knows that P and the proposition P involves a knowledge attribution, let us say that S possesses higher-o...

ing to this estimate the railroad retirement system might have a relatively small amount to transfer to the old-age and survivors insurance system, but the amount is far more than offset by the employer and employee contributions with respect to the short-service employees that the railroad retirement system, in effect, collects and retains. No benefits other than the residual death payment, wh...

Decades of studies on near-death experiences (NDEs) have revealed both cross-cultural and culture-specific features (Kellehear, 2009) and that it is important to determine which aspects are attributed to the physiological, biological, or psychological mechanisms shared by all humans and which aspects are of cultural origin. In this article, we examine Japanese NDEs and compare their features wi...

This paper discusses the key social features in shared journeys into near-death experiences (NDEs) and related illness experiences of other people. Of special interest in this paper is the way that those persons who are not ill or near death account for their sharing of these experiences. These are often people who are caregivers or intimates of NDErs or dying people but who claim to share part...

Jean-Antoine Rioux*, Marie-Claude Durette-Desset, Jean-Louis Albaret, Christiane Bayssade-Dufour, Jimmy Cassone, Irène Landau, Annie Petter, and Roselyne Tchéprakoff 1 Honorary Professor of Parasitology (Montpellier), Former President of the French Society of Parasitology, Faculté de Médecine, Université Montpellier 1, 1 rue de l’École de Médecine, 34000 Montpellier, France 2 Ex-members of ‘‘La...

Speaker: Gregory Arone (Virginia) Title: Part 1: operads, modules and the chain rule Abstract: Let F be a homotopy functor between the categories of pointed topological spaces or spectra. By the work of Goodwillie, the derivatives of F form a symmetric sequence of spectra ∂∗F . This symmetric sequence determines the homogeneous layers in the Taylor tower of F , but not the extensions in the tow...