The paradox of Wigner’s friend challenges the objectivity of description in quantum theory. A pragmatist interpretation can meet this challenge by judicious appeal to decoherence. On this interpretation, quantum theory provides situated agents with resources for predicting and explaining what happens in the physical world— not conscious observations of it. Even in Wigner’s friend scenarios, di¤...

Over the past three decades, feminist methodologists have hammered home one point with surprising regularity: Feminist research takes a variety of legitimate forms; there is no “distinctive feminist method of research” (Harding, 1987; see also Chafetz, 2004a, 2004b; Fonow & Cook, 2005; Hawkesworth, 2006; Hesse-Biber, 2007; Risman, Sprague, & Howard, 1993; and Sprague, 2005). And yet, to this da...

The author reviews his ideas on subjectivity, objectivity, and the third position in the psychoanalytic encounter, particularly in clinical work with borderline and narcissistic patients. Using the theories of Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion as a basis, the author describes his concept of triangular space. A case presentation of a particular type of narcissistic patient illustrates the principle...

IT IS WDDELY HELD that the capacity for spatial thought depends upon the ability to refer to physical things. The argument is that the identification of places depends upon the identification of things; places in themselves are all very much alike and can be distinguished only by their spatial relations to things So one could not so much as think about places unless one could think about things...

THE QUESTION TO BE ASKED in this paper is the following: is there an objective element of well-being, completely independent of anyone’s desires, interests and preferences? Some authors claim that belief in the existence of such an element figures prominently in our moral practices. For instance, Scanlon (1975, p. 658) writes the following: “it seems clear that the criteria of well-being that w...

This describes the factual and epistemological mistakes leading to collapse of anthropological interest in scientific analysis kinship social organization 1980s, their persistence present, alternative that avoids them. The basic argument is while was a challenging topic, reason for studies response David Schneider's criticism 1987 had did not reflect those inherent problems.  They reflecte...

Objectivity: Since the light stimuli are pre-set by the computer and the physical parameters are maintained on a constant level throughout testing, a high administration objectivity is achieved. To avoid a reduction of administration objectivity caused by wrong handling, the test cycle is described in detail in the chapters “Instruction phase” and “Test phase”. In the instruction phase, the ins...

ebate over whether mammogra-phy screening saves lives has become front page news again in recent months. The opening salvo came in October 2001 from Gotzsche and Olsen, who argued in the Lancet that five of the seven randomised trials of screening mammography were of poor or flawed quality and that the remaining two fail to show that the benefits outweigh the risks. 1 In the US, scientific expe...