In 1908, the Canadian government passed a law to prevent immigration from British India, making the right to immigrate conditional on completing a continuous journey from the country of origin. Hundreds of thousands of European immigrants easily met this stipulation; doing so was nearly impossible for British Indians. In April 1914, Canadian authorities in Vancouver, British Columbia detained 376 British Sikh, Muslim and Hindu subjects travelling on the Japanese steamship Komagata Maru from the Punjab. The Komagata Maru incident, as it has come to be known, reminds us of the toxic role of immigration policy in promulgating anti-Asian racism in the Americas. Immigrant selection has long been a mechanism for nation building, in which the nation has been understood in racial and ethnic terms (FitzGerald and Cook-Martín 2014). Selection by race, ethnicity and religion is by no means a relic of the distant past. The notorious White Australia policy endured until 1966. Until the passage of the 2000 Citizenship Law, Germany provided easy access to citizenship for people of German descent but limited opportunities to naturalize even for children of immigrants born in Germany. Liberia continues to restrict citizenship to ‘persons who are Negroes or of Negro descent’ (1984 Constitution of the Republic of Liberia, Article 27).

Abstract Some accounts of power seek to show the value of the exercise of power by one party over another. One influential account of this sort is Wartenberg’s (1990) transformative account. According to the transformative account, some uses of power-over are to be valued in virtue of the fact that they empower the party over whom power is exercised by developing that party’s abilities or capacities. However, only some empowering uses of power are to be vindicated: those that are self-transcending, that seek to bring about a situation in which the exercise of power over the subordinate agent eventually becomes unnecessary. The limits placed by the transformative account are curious, leaving seemingly benign uses of power-over out in the cold. In this paper I seek to show that these particular limits are misguided: empowering uses of power-over need not be self-transcending.

Abstract We argue that the evil-god challenge is not an additional challenge for theists above and beyond the (much older) gap problem. One version of the evil-god challenge is merely a specific instance of the gap problem, and another is dependent on that specific instance of the gap problem. Therefore, the various solutions to the gap problem that theists have developed double as responses to the evil-god challenge, placing the evil-god challenge in a more vulnerable position than has been supposed.

Abstract I argue that there is incompletable grounding—partial grounds that do not, together with other partial grounds, fully ground. And I show how this complicates the fundamentality approach to the ontological economy of theories.

Abstract Many Humeans are persuaded by an argument (separately) from Roberts, Lange and Woodward that strength ought not to be sacrificed in the competition for best system because scientific practice does not exhibit such a sacrifice. I here show that Humeans should not be so persuaded. The argument from Roberts, Lange and Woodward misses the fact that scientists can only systematize their experience, whereas the best system must systematize the entire world. However, while my demonstration shows that the argument against sacrificing strength should not have been persuasive in the way it has been, it does raise new and difficult questions for the Humean.

Abstract In this paper we present some new general coincidence theory for maps with upper semicontinuous selections and then we use our results to generate some new minimax inequalities.

Abstract In this paper, we established new results of the product of a hypergeometric function with the multivariable 𝐴-function by applying definite integrals. Several other new and known results can be obtained from our main theorems.