The current study evaluates the accountability of Native Listeners (NLs). recruited speakers from a mixture Arabic dialects and accents as one group LAFL another where both groups spoke actual words with long short vowels in contrast. A main consequence choosing present experimental manipulation is outcome that NLs had increasingly slow right recognitions follow-on test. conclusion supports cla...

I would suggest that the claim that "the preembryo is not a human being" does not enjoy probability. To my mind the arguments put forth to substantiate the claim fall short because they do not fully appropriate the biological activity of the preembryo, on the one hand, and because of an exaggeration of the importance of certain biological data, on the other. Instead, the case could be made that...

This paper takes as its point of departure two striking incongruities between scientiac practice and trends in modern history and philosophy of science. (1) Many modern historians of science are so preoccupied with local scientiac practices that they fail to recognize important non-local elements. (2) Many modern philosophers of science make a sharp distinction between explanation and evidence,...

A model of costly medical malpractice claims, based on Bayes Rule, is developed to examine the effects of physicians being liable for actual damage under a negligence rule. This model is consistent with empirical evidence concerning the pattern of claims. It is shown that compensating actual damage does not provide physicians with appropriate incentives to spend the second best optimal amount o...

This article investigates multiculturalism by examining the relationship between migrants’ group demands and liberal states’ policies for politically accommodating cultural and religious difference. It focuses especially on Islam. The empirical research compares migrants’ claims-making for group demands in countries with different traditions for granting recognition to migrants’ cultural differ...

Taking seriously the arguments of Earman, Roberts and Smith that ceteris paribus laws have no semantics and cannot be tested, I suggest that ceteris paribus claims have a kind of formal pragmatics, and that at least some of them can be verified or refuted