The paper argues for the importance of utterances (as opposed to \sen-tences in context") as basic units in dialogue. The main case study is clar-iication: a characterization is provided within KOS, a recently developed synthesis of situation semantics and dialogue games, of the clariications that can follow up on an utterance. This involves outlining: (a) a theory of understanding for dialogue...

At a time when superstition and deities were thought to be responsible for health and disease, Hippocrates of Kos emerged as a rational thinker assigning disease to natural causes. His insights, which principally arose from what may be considered almost compulsive examination and comparison, formed the basis of Hippocratic Medicine. There are still unresolved questions regarding the authenticit...

4 Authors: Veronica N. Kos, Maxime Déraspe, Robert E. McLaughlin, James D. 5 Whiteaker, Paul H. Roy, Richard A. Alm, Jacques Corbeil and Humphrey Gardner 6 a Infection Innovative Medicines Unit, AstraZeneca R&D Boston, Waltham, 7 Massachusetts, 02451 USA 8 b Infectious Diseases Research Center, Laval University, 2705, boul. Laurier, Quebec, 9 Quebec, G1V 4G2 Canada 10 To whom correspondence sho...

In July 1977, the Ontario Humans Rights Commission recommended adding sexual orientation to the Code. This move was generally supported but Toronto newspapers and evangelists sought assurances that school boards could still dismiss homosexual teachers. They demanded children be shielded from gay teachers, who they accused of sexual predation. I historically link this to a reenergized fear of ho...

Dynamic Half-rate is an optional feature that allows a GSM cell to switch new incoming half-rate capable calls to half-rate speech coding, when the cell is nearly congested. Since two half-rate speech calls can be put together in one single time slot, Dynamic Half-rate has the potential to double the radio capacity of the cell. We develop a model to analyze the performance of this feature. This...

We investigate the topic of reincarnation by revisiting a recent debate from the pages of the journal Philosophy East and West between Whitley Kaufman, who presents five moral objections to karma and reincarnation as an explanation for human suffering, and Monima Chadha and Nick Trakakis, who seek to respond to Kaufman’s critiques. Our discussion of four of the problems analysed in their exchan...