Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

According to Wikipedia (links in the original), the Gowrie conspiracy refers to a series of events unfolding on 5 August 1600 that are still shrouded in mystery: “John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie … was a Scottish nobleman who died … Continue reading →

I dedicate this post to my wife Sydjia. On this day (August 4) in 1693, Dom Pierre Pérignon is said to have invented the Devil’s wine: champagne. (See here, for example.) Cheers!

I blogged about my latest legal-philosophical foray into popular culture (the wedding scene in the original Godfather movie) in my previous post. That Godfather post then got me to thinking about my previous “pop culture” papers. In all, ten of … Continue reading →

The Godfather premiered fifty years ago in March of 1972. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the wide domestic release of this classic film, I just posted an essay to SSRN titled “Coase and the Corleones“. By way of … Continue reading →

Although the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, most of the delegates to the Continental Congress did not sign this historic document until August 2, 1776! More fun facts about … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
Secret courts … Secret “kill lists” … Secret drone missions … An intellectually-honest jurist has to ask, what has happened to the rule of law? prior probability also asks, what is the probability that these secret…

FYI, the following books are available online for free: 1. Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get Beyond the Statistics Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2018) by Deborah G. Mayo. (This book is available online for free from August 1-31 … Continue reading →

I returned from Colombia last week and am now getting ready to visit Jamaica. In the meantime, here are a few additional photos from Bogota, one of my top-ten favorite cities in the world:

Via the popular Marginal Revolution blog, my colleague and friend Alex Tabarrok recently brought to my attention this prize-winning essay, which is provocatively titled “Drone Airspace: A New Global Asset Class“. The essay was written by Brent Skorup (pictured below), … Continue reading →

Via Brian Leiter, I recently discovered this excellent essay by Robert Cummins, a former philosophy professor who now writes detective novels. To the point, Dr Cummins’ essay presents a slam-dunk refutation of “reflective equilibrium,” a feeble, if not totally bogus, … Continue reading →