We develop a numerical approximation method for valuing multivariate contingent claims.
The approach is based on an n-dimensional extension of the lattice binomial method. Closed-…

The field of social finance, which includes a range of investment practices that consider both
the social and financial characteristics of investments, has grown tremendously over the …

Index options became the most important traded contracts during their first year of existence.
Two contracts, namely those on the S&P100 and the Major Markets Index, have a trading …

Simon J. Evnine explores the view (which he calls amorphic hylomorphism) that some
objects have matter from which they are distinct but that this distinctness is not due to the …

I shall argue in this paper that it should. 1 To begin with, I shall defend (CP) against several
criticisms that have been launched against it. These criticisms are of two kinds, which I shall …

I explore the interrelations between the ontological and aesthetic issues raised by ready-mades
such as Duchamp’s Fountain. I outline a hylomorphic metaphysics which has two central …

Musical Platonists identify musical works with abstract sound structures but this implies that
they are not created but only discovered. Jerrold Levinson adapts Platonism to allow for …

Memes, of the kind found often (though not exclusively) on the internet, are an increasingly
significant medium of expressive activity. I develop a theory of their ontological nature and, in …

If science fiction is a genre, then attempts to think about the nature of science fiction will be
affected by one’s understanding of what genres are. I shall examine two approaches to genre, …

Constitution is the relation between something and what it is made of. Composition is the
relation between something and its parts. I examine three different approaches to the relation …