Sungho Choi has criticised Michael Strevens’s counterexample to David Lewis’s final theory of “token” causation, causation as “influence.” I argue that, even if Choi’s points are correct, Strevens’s ...

In this paper we describe two episodes of instructional interaction, in which examples are used in order to help students face their misconceptions. We introduce the notions of pivotal example and ...

A new paper explores community-supported agriculture and its survival in the face of economic globalization. Organic food was once an economic haven for small farms who distributed their goods ...

Russia had always been China’s best friend, even when it was not. I wrote this with a degree of cynicism, but it is not necessarily untrue. There is currently something of a Western consensus, or ...