On Means and Ends

in translation: translators on their work and what it means

کتاب در باب ترجمه، اثر استر آلن و سوزان برنوفسکی منتشر شده در ماه می 2013 توسط نشریه کلمبیا است. نویسندگان در این کتاب به بررسی 18 مترجم با در نظر گرفتن نقش آثاری که این مترجمان ترجمه کرده اند میپردازند. کتاب به دو بخش تقسیم میشود: " مترجم در جهان" و " کار مترجم" این دو بخش مقالات همیشگی ترجمه و موقعیت خاص ادبیات بیگانه در جهان وسیع امروزی را مورد خطاب قرار میدهد. در این کتاب مقالات متعددی از ن...

ON MEANS AND ENDS - 2 On Means and Ends : The Role of Goal Focus in Successful Goal Pursuit

When pursuing a goal, one can focus more on the process or on the outcome of goal pursuit. We take a closer look at the hypothesis that when one pursues goals that are demanding in terms of the level of skill or self-regulation required to achieve them, focusing on the process is more adaptive and focusing on the outcome can even be detrimental to goal achievement. We summarize the evidence fro...

Means-Ends Epistemology

This paper describes the cornerstones of a means-ends approach to the philosophy of inductive inference. I begin with a fallibilist ideal of convergence to the truth in the long run, or in the “limit of inquiry”. I determine which methods are optimal for attaining additional epistemic aims (notably fast and steady convergence to the truth). Means-ends vindications of (a version of) Occam’s Razo...

Means, Ends and Medical Care

Ends to a means

Most of the familiar garden birds we see all the time have a very short life: just a few years for the commoner species. But some birds have the potential for a very long life and a new study has looked at chromosomal status that may be linked with longevity. A team of international scientists headed by Pat Monahan at the University of Glasgow report, in Proceedings B of the Royal Society (publ...