WILLIAM BULLOCK CLARK, 1860—1917

Two doctors Harvey: William (1578-1657); Samuel Clark (1886-1953).

Preparations for this contribution to the 1979 History of Surgery Lecture at the Yale University School of Medicine were begun in the autumn of 1978, the year which marked the four hundredth anniversary of William Harvey's birth. It was the present writer's original intention to honor the memory of that great medical scientist with a brief biographical note and critique. However, as the researc...

The Business Failures Project: A Problem in Methodology (with William Clark and Dorothy S. Thomas)

Clark Glymour

Twenty years ago, Nancy Cartwright wrote a perceptive essay in which she clearly distinguished causal relations from associations, introduced philosophers to Simpson’s paradox, articulated the difficulties for reductive probabilistic analyses of causation that flow from these observations, and connected causal relations with strategies of action (Cartwright 1979). Five years later, without appr...

Katerina Clark

Reconsidering Clark

The use of Herbert Clark’s work as a theoretical framework in the Computer Supported Collaborative Work domain is often dismissed or judged as “cooked” and led to a large body of controversy. This article intends to reconsider his contribution and re-examined the criticisms he received. The main critics addressed to Clark are that his notion of Common Ground is far too mentalist and lacks “situ...