Roman poetic portrayals of mad characters through the time of Virgil construct a fundamental opposition between madness, an ipso facto self-absorbed or egoistic condition, and sanity, which duly fixes its gaze outside of itself, on parents, forebears, and the walls of state. The poets conceptualize furor less as what a modern sensibility would label insanity or mental illness than as a passion-...

The social history of madness is a vibrant area of intellectual enquiry which in the past 20 years has generated an impressive series of monographs and essay collections. This volume is a scholarly addition to the literature. Although its origins lie i n a seminar series and a conference, both held at the University of Exeter, the strong focus on institutions during the long nineteenth century ...

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In addressing how to evaluate online discussions, this paper will describe several concepts, tools, or frameworks that have been used in evaluations and discuss differences in approach based on instructor purpose, be it research, assessment, or learning. Then several common problems are described, including use of content analysis, identification of latent content, inadequate training of coders...

This is the true, harrowing story of how a young, vibrant, healthy New York Post reporter experienced 1 month complete “madness” until she was properly diagnosed and treated. Cahalan, who 24...

Abstract: This article consists of a commentary on Derrida’s essay “To do Justice to Freud: The History Madness in the Age Psychoanalysis”, with aim tracing what cannot be re-appropriated by presuppositions Derrida/Foucault debate. By analysing question “who announces nonrecourse?”, I will explore way which writing is affected necessity and impossibility not repressing unreason. defend that Der...

Existing speech technology tends to be poorly suited for young children at play, both because of their age-specific pronunciation and because they tend to play together, making overlapping speech and side discussions about the play itself ubiquitous. We report the performance of an autonomous, multi-keyword spotter that has been trained and tested on data from a multi-player game designed to fo...

Historically, analytic philosophy has not been as close to psychiatry as the continental tradition. For instance, no analytic philosopher has produced a treatise as important and comprehensive as Karl Jaspers’s General Psychopathology (Jaspers 1963 [1913]), a work deeply infl uenced by phenomenology. Similarly, no analytic philosopher so far has critically engaged with the practice and history ...

This paper began life as a serious attempt to understand the classical foundations of thermodynamics, but ended up doing crazy things like defining the temperature and entropy of single molecules. Nevertheless, there is method behind the madness, because in terms of these generalized definitions I am able to prove that the generalized notion of temperature reduces to the standard notion under c...

For an infinite cardinal μ, MAD(μ) denotes the set of all cardinalities of nontrivial maximal almost disjoint families over μ. Erdős and Hechler proved in [7] the consistency of μ ∈ MAD(μ) for a singular cardinal μ and asked if it was ever possible for a singular μ that μ / ∈ MAD(μ), and also whether 2 μ < μ =⇒ μ ∈ MAD(μ) for every singular cardinal μ. We introduce a new method for controlling ...