For old time’s sake

I’ve put a couple more papers up.  The first is, well, a bit duff in places, particularly early on (revising the same text over and over again always ends up making it worse…), though if you just want the main moral, check out the final third.  As for the second, it basically puts into a lengthier form many of the thoughts canvassed on this blog in the past six months.  Plainly, neither paper is going to set the world alight, but the usual disclaimer applies: if you wish to cite, please reference the published versions.  If nothing else, I’ll probably delete this site in due course, so you’ll end up with a dangling URL.