Introduction to Chemical Engineering Problems (Corcoran, William H.; Lacey, William N.)

William H. Carmalt

An Introduction to the Work of William

The papers reprinted here from the published work of William W. Rozeboom were selected to introduce readers to his notion of “explanatory induction” (EI), a fundamental form of inference that he took to be a major facet of human intelligence, whether in the rudimentary forms it takes in the “common-sense” inferences we make every day without a second thought, or in the more advanced and selfcon...

Commentary AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK OF WILLIAM FARR 1

William Farr must be counted a founder, even the founder, of epidemiology in its modern form. Among the special contributions of men like Quetelet and Galton to biostatistics, of John Snow to the survey as an explanatory instrument, and of Pasteur and Koch to specifications of environmental agents and host immunity, Farr's contributions surely cover the broadest range of the activities of conte...

Social Learning: An Introduction to Mechanisms, Methods, and Models by William Hoppitt and Kevin N. Laland

William Harvey

as part of the moral order on the one hand and as pathological phenomena on the other. Dr. Riese writes interestingly of his seventeenth century theorists, and the reader will find much of what he has to say rewarding, especially with respect to the work of medical men so little known as de la Forge and de la Chambre. Rather than praise the obvious merits of Dr. Riese's monograph, however, I sh...