Borne of necessity

This article provides an explanation of Anselm’s understanding of necessity. Anselm did not write much about modality, and what he did write is puzzling. The dominant readings of A...

This chapter explores a dilemma arising from interveners’ competing duties to respect authorization and to enforce necessity. Even in cases where an intervener could defend an agen...

Boutroux, approximately 150 years prior to Meillassoux, already argued for the contingency of laws of nature, as well as truths of logic and mathematics. Boutroux, however, does no...

The arboviruses are all single-stranded RNA viruses, although they belong to four different viral families. Several important human pathogens belong to the mosquito-borne arbovirus...

Arthropods transmit a variety of diseases to humans and animals, including arboviruses, bacteria and parasites. No efficient treatments or control methods are available for many ve...

R.felis has been identified in cats and cat fleas and is now considered to be the cause of flea borne spotted fever (cat flea typhus). Cases of fever, rash and lymphadeopathy have ...

This chapter makes three claims. First, Lieber’s conception of necessity stems directly from his philosophical claim that sharp wars are brief. Second, the Lieberian conception of ...