Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (Mythology)

Growth , structure , instability and collapse of Canarian volcanoes and comparisons with Hawaiian volcanoes

Recent onshore and offshore investigations in the Canarian archipelago, especially in the western islands of La Palma and El Hieno, have greatly improved the understanding of the genesis and evolution of these islands and allow interesting comparisons with other hotspot-induced oceanic island volcanoes, especially the Hawaiian archipelago. Genesis induced by hotspot activity and, consequently, ...

The Philosophy of Mythology

Figure Legends

Context and Mythology

In this thesis, I will survey some philosophically representative approaches to the problem of the relationship between context and meaning. Starting from G.W.F. Hegel’s discussion of the meaninglessness of indexical terms in the Phenomenology of Spirit, I will investigate Gottlob Frege’s notion of context and the legacy of this notion in the formal sciences of language, showing that this appro...

Greek technology or mythology?

The study by Stefanadis et al. in this issue indicates that treatment with a variety of statins reduces the release of heat from atherosclerotic plaques in the human coronary artery. This observation suggests that statins exert a beneficial effect on the inflammatory process that exists in the vascular wall in a variety of acute coronary syndromes. The finding that this effect was most pronounc...