The Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-analysis. 8/6 This short book, which was first published in 1937 is now reprinted. It is No. 2 of the Psycho-analytical Epitomes. It is not an abridgement of a larger published work but consists of two lectures with the original Preface by John Rickman. It is good that these concise, non-technical lectures are again pasily available. The authors speak w...

Open-mindedness is generally regarded as an intellectual virtue because its exercise reliably leads to truth. However, some theorists have argued that openmindedness’s truth-conduciveness is highly contingent, pointing out that it is either not truth-conducive at all under certain scenarios or no better than dogmatism or credulity in others. Given such shaky ties to truth, it would appear that ...

Social vigilantism (SV) is an enduring individual difference that assesses the tendency of individuals to impress and propagate their "superior" beliefs onto others to correct others' more "ignorant" opinions. After establishing a reliable measure of SV, three studies showed that SV was associated with greater expressions of belief superiority (whether reacting to others holding dissimilar or s...

In rheumatology and other medical specialties there is a discrepancy between the widespread use and the imprecise designation of glucocorticoid treatment regimens. Verbal descriptions of glucocorticoid treatment regimens used in various phases of diseases vary between countries and institutions. Given this background, a workshop under the auspices of the EULAR Standing Committee on Internationa...

It is probable that the sanitarians of the future will declare that we, the sanitary pioneers of the nineteenth century, were little more than unclean barbarians, unable to master the first principles of scavenging, when they read that, despite all our affectation of learned dogmatism, and our pretence that our rude art is an exact science, a preventable fever took from our midst the best-belov...

in his perspective “navigating between stealth advocacy and unconscious dogmatism: the challenge of researching the norms, politics and power of global health,” ooms argues that actions taken in the field of global health are dependent not only on available resources, but on the normative premise that guides how these resources are spent. this comment sets out how the application of a predomina...

Historical materialism is one of Marx’s greatest discoveries, which great significance in the history human social thought. In Engels’ later years, there was a new trend development capitalist society, where letters became an important carrier for Engels to carry out theoretical research, propaganda and struggle. his years paid full attention reaction superstructure economic foundation relative...

: The paper investigates being, appearance and Ursein in Reinhold’s Bardili-phase, a time during which he critically positions himself over against Schelling Hegel. first part (1) highlights Bardili’s the basis of their “rational” or “objective realism”. From here (2) Reinhold criticizes Schelling’s “subjective idealism” as one philodoxy. third (3) identity Schelling: philosophy is indifference...