of Newton’. I have chosen an English physicist; a French, a German and a British astronomer; a German philosopher and a British geologist, all of first rank—I could, I assure you, without difficulty have added lesser men to the number. I think that I can claim that all those who have gone direct to Hooke have conceived the highest admiration for his astonishing industry, his whole-hearted devot...

It is a matter of some irony that psychiatry’s most trenchant critic for over four decades is himself a psychiatrist. I refer to Thomas S. Szasz. Szasz’s core thesis may be succinctly rendered: mental illness is a “myth”, a “metaphor” which serves only to obscure the social and ethical “problems in living” we face as human beings. This paper reconsiders the conceptual bases of Szasz’s assault o...

THE SILENCE OF HEALTH “Health is life lived in the silence of the organs” wrote the French surgeon René Leriche in 1936, a concept later adopted and further developed by the physician and philosopher Georges Canguilhem (1). Albeit certainly resonant with the experience of health defined as the state of well being perceived by an individual, this concept is less valid when health is evaluated in...

A the middle of the last century, the French philosopher Auguste Comte speculated that knowledge of the chemical composition of stars would be forever beyond the reach of science. Scarcely a decade later, however, the new science of spectroscopy was bom-and with it the ability to determine the chem­ ical makeup of stellar atmospheres. 1his development precipitated a revolution in physics. The s...

Postmodernism is a very ambiguous term. It attracted many researchers from different fields of knowledge in the late 1960s. This article explains intertextuality as a critical means to derive its concepts and components in order to understand the hidden layers of meaning in postmodern pluralist ideology. Variable thoughts of postmodern architecture have been divided into two categories—Hi...

a very eminent degree, being highly accomplished in the mathematical and philosophical sciences, as well as in the theory and practice of architecture. He was born in 1632, and made great advances in mathematics at 16 years of age. Being an Oxford scholar, he was one of those learned men who first associated together there for their mutual im¬ provement in natural and experimental philosophy, a...

The article discusses the creation of expression and idea historical epistemology. It problematized context rise what would be epistemology who have been pioneer author in introduction expression, traditionally considered as resulting from Dominique Lecourt’s book, L’Épistémologie historique de Gaston Bachelard (1969). possible options for affiliating are explored, pertinence attributing invent...

It is sometimes argued that possible worlds are too rich. Indeed, for every sentence φ and every world w, either φ is true at w, or ¬φ is true at w. Possible worlds leave nothing unsettled: for any question one may ask, there is always an answer, yes or no. My view goes along the opposite side. I take possible worlds to be incredibly poor, and I think that a good deal can be added to them. The ...