1,447 research outputs found
Establishment of Sinoxylon anale Lesne (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) in Brazil and its potential implications
No full textde, Luana, Covre, Souza, Haack, Robert A., Flechtmann, Carlos Alberto Hector (2023): Establishment of Sinoxylon anale Lesne (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) in Brazil and its potential implications. Insecta Mundi 2023 (5): 1-6, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1013443
El fundherentismo: la epistemología de Susan Haack
No full textIn this article, the author wishes to present Susan Haack’s epistemological proposal that aims to locate it in the middle between foundationalism and coherentism. The foundationalism asserts the existence of fundamental core beliefs. Instead coherentism believes consistency is enough to justifybeliefs. Haack sees insufficient both proposals and presents a new model to save the best of the other two: the foundherentism. The author explains that this proposal is directed towards two objectives: the problem of the justification of our beliefs and the problem of truth. Since the proposal itself is interesting, but it’s more interesting to see this new epistemology makes by a woman philosopher, with new visions and new perspectives as her contribution.En este artículo, el autor desea presentar la propuesta epistemológica de Susan Haack la misma que pretende ubicarse en el intermedio entre el fundacionalismo y el coherentismo. El fundacionalismo sostiene la existencia de creencias básicas fundamentales. El coherentismo en cambio cree suficiente la coherencia como justificación de las creencias. Haack encuentra insuficientes ambas propuestas y presenta un nuevo modelo que salve lo mejor de los otros dos: el fundherentismo. El autor explica que dicha propuesta se dirige hacia dos objetivos: el problema de la justificación de nuestras creencias y el problema de la verdad. Ya la propuesta misma es interesante, pero es más relevante ver esta nueva mirada para la epistemología cuando consideramos que viene de parte de una filósofa con sus nuevas visiones y nuevas perspectivas como su aporte
Susan Haack on Twardowski’s refutation of the relativity of truth
No full textThis paper comments Susan Haack’s remarks about Twardowski’s criticism of relativism in the theory of truth. The author summarizes Twardowski’s arguments for truth-absolutism and tries to show that that their presentation by Haack is incomplete. The defense of Twardowski’s position in the paper uses ideas developed by Tarski and Kokoszyñska
Invasion by the chestnut gall wasp in Italy causes significant yield loss inCastanea sativanut production
No full textPragmatism Old & New: Selected Writings
No full textAsking what we can learn from the older pragmatist tradition, and what we can salvage from the intellectual shipwreck of the new, Susan Haack, with the assistance of Robert Lane, has put together a wide-ranging anthology that tells the story of the evolution of pragmatism from its origins in C. S. Peirce’s hopes of making philosophy more scientific and William James’s of unstiffening our theories, to the radical literary-political neo-pragmatism recently popularized by Richard Rorty. Opening with a history of pragmatism from its inception to the present day, and closing with Haack’s famous interview with Peirce and Rorty, the book presents a broad and diverse selection of pragmatist writings — classical and contemporary, reformist and revolutionary — on logic, metaphysics, theory of inquiry, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and moral, social, and political philosophy
sj-pdf-1-ctj-10.1177_17407745221132302 – Supplemental material for Strategies to facilitate adolescent access to medicines: Improving regulatory guidance
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ctj-10.1177_17407745221132302 for Strategies to facilitate adolescent access to medicines: Improving regulatory guidance by Christina Bucci-Rechtweg, Angeliki Siapkara, Kristina An Haack Bonnet, Solange Corriol Rohou, Elin Haf Davies, Martine Dehlinger Kremer, Margaret Gamalo, Carmen Moreno, Robert M Nelson and Rhian Thomas Turner in Clinical Trials</p
sj-pdf-2-ctj-10.1177_17407745221132302 – Supplemental material for Strategies to facilitate adolescent access to medicines: Improving regulatory guidance
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-2-ctj-10.1177_17407745221132302 for Strategies to facilitate adolescent access to medicines: Improving regulatory guidance by Christina Bucci-Rechtweg, Angeliki Siapkara, Kristina An Haack Bonnet, Solange Corriol Rohou, Elin Haf Davies, Martine Dehlinger Kremer, Margaret Gamalo, Carmen Moreno, Robert M Nelson and Rhian Thomas Turner in Clinical Trials</p
Role of Drought in Outbreaks of Plant-Eating Insects
No full textSubstantial evidence indicates that drought stress promotes outbreaks of plant-eating (phytophagous) fungi and insects. Observations and experiments show that colonization success and prevalence of such fungi as root and stalk rots, stem cankers, and sometimes wilts and foliar diseases are much higher on water-stressed plants than on normal plants (Schoeneweiss 1986). The evidence associating insects and drought is more circumstantial, consisting largely of observations that outbreaks around the world of such insects as bark beetles and leaf feeders (see Table 1) are typically preceded by unusually warm, dry weather. There is also a consistent, positive correlation between insect outbreaks and dry, nutrient-poor sites (Mattson and Haack 1987)
Representing uncertainty in a spatial invasion model that incorporates human-mediated dispersal
No full textMost modes of human-mediated dispersal of invasive species are directional and vector-based. Classical spatial spread models usually depend on probabilistic dispersal kernels that emphasize distance over direction and have limited ability to depict rare but influential long-distance dispersal events. These aspects are problematic if such models are used to estimate invasion risk. Alternatively, a geographic network model may be better at estimating the typically low likelihoods associated with human-mediated dispersal events, but it should also provide a reasonable account of uncertainties that could affect perception of its risk estimates. We developed a network model that assesses the likelihood of dispersal of invasive forest pests in camper-transported firewood in North America. We built the model using data from the U.S. National Recreation Reservation Service, which document visitor travel between populated places and federal campgrounds across the U.S. and Canada. The study area is depicted as a set of coarse-resolution map units. Based on repeated simulations, the model estimates the probability that each unit is a possible origin and destination for firewood-facilitated forest pest invasions. We generated output maps that summarise, for each U.S. state and Canadian province, where (outside the state or province) a camper-transported forest pest likely originated. Treating these output maps as a set of baseline scenarios, we explored the sensitivity of these “origin risk” estimates to additive and multiplicative errors in the probabilities of pest transmission between locations, as well as random changes in the structure of the underlying travel network. We found the patterns of change in the origin risk estimates due to these alterations to be consistent across all states and provinces. This indicates that the network model behaves predictably in the presence of uncertainties, allowing future work to focus on closing knowledge gaps or more sophisticated treatments of the impact of uncertainty on model outputs
Evaluating the impacts of an international phytosanitary standard for wood packaging material: Global and United States trade implications
No full textWood packaging material (WPM) is a significant pathway by which bark- and wood-boring insects move between countries. Recognising this threat, an international standard for the treatment of WPM (ISPM 15) is being implemented by many countries. In addition, the United States has considered application of similar requirements to WPM used in domestic and bilateral trade with Canada. We use a domestic margin-inclusive version of the Global Trade Analysis model to estimate the economic and trade impacts of ISPM 15, along with alternatives of varying stringency. We also estimate the economic impacts of one of the benefits of ISPM 15; averted United States forest owner timber losses. ISPM 15 is likely to have a small, negative effect on exports and economic welfare for most countries. However, there is significant regional and sectoral variation, depending on the product mix traded. If ISPM 15 requirements are extended to United States domestic trade, the impacts on the United States are stronger. Inclusion of averted United States timber losses partly, but not completely, offset welfare and trade impacts of the ISPM 15 treatment. These results must be tempered with the additional benefits of ISPM 15 in terms of potential averted household and environmental damages. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.Anna Strutt, James A. Turner, Robert A. Haack, Lars Olso
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