OPINION: GOODBYE TO THIRD WORLD SCIENCE?

How to Say Goodbye to the Third Man∗

In (1991), Meinwald initiated a major change of direction in the study of Plato’s Parmenides and the Third Man Argument. On her conception of the Parmenides , Plato’s language systematically distinguishes two types or kinds of predication, namely, predications of the kind ‘x is F pros ta alla’ and ‘x is F pros heauto’. Intuitively speaking, the former is the common, everyday variety of predicat...

Mapping science in the Third World

Eugene Garfield PhD is u piouccr in the field of information science. He is founder and presiden t oj’the Institute jbr Scientijic Irij&mation (iSI), \rvhich produces a broad spectrum of‘ inf&-mation services and systems. The inventor of ‘Current

Special Section: Science in the Third World

Let me first warmly thank UNESCO and ICSU for the invitation extended to me to take the floor at the opening ceremony of this Conference and address it on behalf of the Third World Academy of Sciences, over which I have the honour to preside. I am aware that this distinction is a tribute to the many colleagues of our generation who, in the developing countries, under the pressure of necessity, ...

Goodbye to ABCD resuscitation?

Mappimg Science in the Third World " Part 2

Journals We can now identify the journals from the developed countries that published at least 50 articles from the Third World. Nineteen journals are shown (see Table 1). Included is the overalf number of articles each journal published to give an idea of the proportion from the Third World. Six of these journals were published in the UK, the US has five, and the Netherlands three. Switzerland...