Rebecca C H Brown
Rebecca C H Brown
This paper identifies and critiques a tendency for public health risk communication to be 'sneakily' persuasive. First, I describe how trends in the social and health sciences have facilitated an approach to public health risk communication...
Grace Paterson
Grace Paterson
This paper is concerned with situations in which a speaker issues many speech acts at the same time. A common example is the publication of a large text such as a book containing many distinct assertions. It is argued that these cases prese...
Ben Davies
Ben Davies
A considerable literature has emerged around the idea of using 'personal responsibility' as an allocation criterion in healthcare distribution, where a person's being suitably responsible for their health needs may justify additional condit...
Guido Melchior
Guido Melchior
This paper aims at resolving a puzzle about the persuasiveness of bootstrapping. On the one hand, bootstrapping is not a persuasive method of settling questions about the reliability of a source. On the other hand, our beliefs that our sens...
Barry Smith
Barry Smith
We begin by describing recent developments in the burgeoning discipline of applied ontology, focusing especially on the ways ontologies are providing a means for the consistent representation of scientific data. We then introduce Basic Form...