Hommage � Karl Oberdisse

Hommage to reactive psychosis.

When looking back in the history of psychiatry, the concept of reactivity had very variable impact on ethiological considerations. If classification of mental disorders is taken as a proxy, it seems that this impact is presently at the lowest that it has been in the last hundred years. The author gives a short historical overview of concept of reactive psychosis, followed by a description of th...

Karl Sigmund.

Program Thursday, October 29 10:00 – 10:20 Opening addresses by Vice-Rector Prof. Dr. Heinz Faßmann and by Dean Prof. Dr. Harald Rindler 10:20 – 11:15 Peter Schuster: “Modeling cooperation – From molecules to man” 11:15 – 12:10 Martin Nowak: “Natural cooperation” 12:10 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 14:55 Sebastian Schreiber: "Fitness covariances and coexistence of interacting, structured populations" 1...

Marx, Karl

Marx was drawn towards politics by Romantic literature and his earliest writings embody a conception of reality as subject to turbulent change and of human beings as realizing themselves in the struggle for freedom. His identification with these elements in HEGEL's thought (and his contempt for what he regarded as HEGEL's apologetic attitude towards the Prussian state) brought Marx to associate...

Karl R . Popper

I propose to begin my paper on the logic of the social sciences with two theses which formulate the opposition between our knowledge and our ignorance. First thesis: We know a great deal. And we know not only many details of doubtful intellectual interest but also things which are of considerable practical significance and, what is even more important, which provide us with deep theoretical ins...

Karl Popper. Objective Knowledge