Lionel Henry Opie

Eugene Lindsay Opie.

Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences.

Lionel Shingleton Smith

Lionel Sharples Penrose (1898-1972).

Lionel Robbins: Neoclassical Maximizer or Proto-praxeologist?

Austrian economists writing after the so-called Austrian revival of the 1970s have generally been dismissive of Lionel Robbins’s An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science (Robbins 1932), denying it a significant role in shaping the modern praxeological paradigm in economics.1 Their attitude in this regard has been heavily influenced by the views of Israel Kirzner. Kirzner (197...

PSYCHE: http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ OPIE: BEYOND THE FRINGE Beyond the Fringe

Mangan makes a useful contribution to our understanding of the structure and function of the nonsensory fringe of consciousness. I offer a few friendly amendments and criticisms. In particular, I argue that the fringe/focus structure of experience is considerably more complex than Mangan allows, and that his account of the function of fringe experience doesn’t do justice to the emergent nature ...