Thomas A C Reydon
Thomas A C Reydon
Present-day thought on the notion of species is troubled by a mistaken understanding of the nature of the issue: while the species problem is commonly understood as concerning the epistemology and ontology of one single scientific concept, ...
Francesca Bordogna
Francesca Bordogna
This paper studies the constellations of attitudes--sentimental, moral, epistemological, and social--that three leading psychologists active in turn-of-the-twentieth-century America took to be essential to the production of scientific knowl...
Roger Smith
Roger Smith
Psychological terms, such as 'mind', 'memory', 'emotion' and indeed 'psychology' itself, have a history. This history, I argue, supports the view that basic psychological categories refer to historical and social entities, and not to 'natur...
A question of merit: John Hutton Balfour, Joseph Hooker and the 'concussion' over the Edinburgh chair of botany [0.03%]
一个关于资历的问题：约翰·巴尔弗、约瑟夫·胡克和爱丁堡植物学教授席位的争论
Richard Bellon
Richard Bellon
In 1845, Robert Graham's death created a vacancy for the traditionally dual appointment to the University of Edinburgh's chair of botany and the Regius Keepership of the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden. John Hutton Balfour and Joseph Hooker ...
The 'physical prophet' and the powers of the imagination. Part II: a case-study on dowsing and the naturalisation of the moral, 1685-1710 [0.03%]
“身体预言家”与想象的力量。第2部分：占用水源权案研究（1685—1710）
Koen Vermeir
Koen Vermeir
In the first paper of this pair, I argued the importance of theories of the imagination in debates on divination [Vermeir, K. (2004). The 'physical prophet' and the powers of the imagination. Part I: A case-study on prophecy, vapours and th...
Health care ethics and health law in the Dutch discussion on end-of-life decisions: a historical analysis of the dynamics and development of both disciplines [0.03%]
荷兰关于 euthanasia 的历史争论：医疗伦理学和卫生法学的发展及其相互作用力的分析
Loes Kater,Rob Houtepen,Raymond De Vries et al.
Loes Kater et al.
Over the past three or four decades, the concept of medical ethics has changed from a limited set of standards to a broad field of debate and research. We define medical ethics as an arena of moral issues in medicine, rather than a specific...
Immaculada de Melo-Martin
Immaculada de Melo-Martin
The aim of this paper is to show that critics of biological explanations of human nature may be granting too much to those who oppose such explanations when they argue that the truth of genetic determinism implies an end to critical evaluat...