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  • Alberta in the anthropocene 
    Peacock, Kent (Arts and SciencesDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2017)
    [No abstract available]
  • Cartesian dreams : a play in two acts 
    O'Connell, Sean (Edmonton : Phi-Psi Publishers, 2000Arts and SciencePhilosophyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2000)
  • Comment on "Tests of signal locality and Einstein-Bell locality for multiparticle systems" 
    Peacock, Kent (The American Physical SocietyArts and SciencesDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Lethbridge, 1992)
    [No abstract available]
  • A different kind of rigor: what climate scientists can learn from emergency room doctors 
    Peacock, Kent A. (Taylor & FrancisArts and ScienceDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Lethbridgehttp://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2018.1509483, 2018)
    James Hansen and others have argued that climate scientists are often reluctant to speak out about extreme outcomes of anthropogenic carbonization. According to Hansen, such reticence lessens the chance of effective ...
  • Does rhetoric have a place in Wolhrapp's theory of argument? 
    Stevens, Katharina (University of WindsorArts and ScienceDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Lethbridgehttps://doi.org/10.22329/il.v37i3.4698, 2017)
    This paper aims to determine whether rhetoric has a place in Wohlrapp's theory of argumentation. Wohlrapp's own attitude towards rhetoric is ambiguous. There are passages in his book where he grants that rhetoric might ...
  • Peaceful coexistence or armed truce?: quantum nonlocality and the spacetime view of the world 
    Peacock, Kent A. (University of TorontoArts and ScienceDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Lethbridge, 1991)
    This thesis is concerned with a critical examination of the notion of “peaceful coexistence” between quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. This phrase, coined by Abner Shimony, is meant to suggest that quantum ...
  • Plato's retreat : a play in two acts 
    O'Connell, Sean (Edmonton : Phi-Psi Publishers, c2002Arts and SciencePhilosophyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2002)
  • Trump, snakes, and the power of fables 
    Stevens, Katharina (University of WindsorArts and ScienceDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Lethbridgehttps://doi.org/10.22329/il.v38i1.4959, 2018)
    At a recent rally, Donald Trump resumed a habit he had developed during his election-rallies and read out the lyrics to a song. It tells the Aesopian fable of The Farmer and the Snake: A half frozen snake is taken in by a ...