Baseball players, works of art and rare postage stamps have value in the market place partially as a function of their rarity. What is it about human nature that drives some to chase a postage stamp or coin, precisely because it is rare, and others of us to crave the stamp of approval that comes with publishing a paper in a prestige journal? It is not uncommon for prestige-seeking journals (or ...

attracted more criticism than usual. Some has been justified. A few doctors have behaved badly; some have been incompetent or rude, libidinous, dishonourable, even dangerous. That it is a small minority that behaves in this way tends to get overlooked: the profession as a whole is discredited. As Shaw wrote: ‘As to the honour and conscience of doctors, they have as much as any other class of me...

This paper presents a formal theory of multiple agent non-monotonic reasoning. We introduce the subject of multiple agent non-monotonic reasoning for inquiry and motivate the field in terms of its applications for con-n-nonsense reasoning. We extend Moore’s [1985] Autoepistemic Logic to the multiple agent case, and show that the resulting logic is too weak for most applications of commonsense r...

This paper selects from a longer chapter which recapitulates and extends discussions on anti administration (anti-admin) from the perspective of discourse theory. First, it discusses discourse theory, explaining that the discourses of anti-admin aim toward the inclusion of marginalized or excluded perspectives. Second, it outlines some anti-admin theory. Parallel to the action of anti matter an...