Science or Romance?

Hawthorne's 'the Birthmark'': Science and Romance as Belief

In 1949 Robert B. Heilman published the essay "Hawthorne's 'The Birthmark': Science as Religion."^ The year of the Soviet Union's first successful test of an atomic bomb and four yeiirs after the United States' use of atomic weapons against the Japanese, 1949 was a year inclined to provoke concern about the practice of science as religion. Heilman's reading of Aylmer as a tragic overreacher who...

"Mechanistic Science and Metaphysical Romance" (1915), by Jacques Loeb

Jacques Loeb [4] published ?Mechanistic Science and Metaphysical Romance? in 1915. His goal for the article was to outline his conception [5] of mechanistic science and its relation to other methods of inquiry. Loeb argued that mechanistic science was the foundation of knowledge and humanity?s progress depended on it. Loeb?s argument altered the account of science he offered in The Mechanistic ...

Parapsychology: Science or Pseudo-Science?

Do paranormal or parapsychologicalinvestigationsmeet the criteria often said to characterize pseudo-science? Mainstream and non-mainstream research is compared through content analysis of selected samples of mainstream journals from several fields and of non-mainstream (‘‘fringe’’) journals. Oral communication processes were studied at an annual meeting of the ParapsychologicalAssociation. Thou...

Romance is so complex

In this paper I want to look at what the evidence from Complex Predicates can tell us about the design parameters of an empirically adequate theory of Universal Grammar (UG). This is a fertile field for investigation because, according to the standard assumptions of the field, complex predicates are monoclausal with respect to some properties and multiclausal with respect to others and this ten...

“Three Kingdoms” to Romance