Military Rule in Chile: Dictatorship and Oppositions

Political prisoner speaks out on military dictatorship in Burma

M o re t h a n 4 , 7 0 0 n e w a n d slightly used coats for people in n ee d of w in te r c lo th in g w e r e donated la s t s e m e s te r to se t a re c o rd in th e s e v e n th a n n u a l Project W arm th campaign, con­ ducted Oct. 28 to Dec. 6. C o m p e t i t i o n to c o l l e c t t h e coats was strong between some residence halls. Zahm Hall won with 898 coats with nearly four p e r ...

Patent Oppositions

In recent years, patent protection has extended into new areas, giving rise to serious concern about the lack of clear guidelines for patentability. We analyze the effect of introducing a patent opposition process that would allow patent validity to be challenged directly after a patent is granted. In many cases, such a system would avoid costly litigation at a later date. In other cases, the o...

Oppositions and quantum mechanics

In this paper we deal with two applications of the square of opposition to controversial issues in the philosophy of quantum mechanics. The first one concerns the kind of opposition represented by states in superposition. A superposition of “spin up” and “spin down” for a given spatial direction, for instance, is sometimes said to originate particular kinds of opposition such as contradictorine...

Nested Oppositions

The discourse of "neutrality": attitudes of psychoanalysts during the military dictatorship.

This article examines the position of psychanalytical societies and Brazilian psychoanalysts affiliated to the International Psychoanalytical Association during the military dictatorship in the 1970s. It shows that the period was a time of extended ideas, featuring a large investment in private clinics and a resulting "marginalization" of the social universe doctrine. Through the writings of ce...