Conceptual analyses can be subdivided into two classes, good and evil. Empirical analysis is the good kind, routinely practiced in the sciences. Orthodox analysis is the malevolent version that plagues philosophical discourse. In this paper, I will clarify the difference between them, provide some reasons to prefer good over evil, and illustrate their consequences for the metaphysics of causati...

Saul: "And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp* and played with his hand; so Saul was refreshed and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him." Music was a treatment for meflt3 diseases in ancient Egypt and Greec. The present interest in therapy dates from 1947. Sir SteUa Wilson, then Music Director of ^ Arts Council, pointed out tP, altho...

stage, I wanted to displace the ribs outwards and asked him to submit to surgical interference, w'hich he refused. Treatment.?Calcium, opium and a purgative by the mouth. I kept him without any pillow. I did not see the patient for five days and I was told that some evil spirit was working on him and this spirit had inflated his whole body and the man was unrecognisable, and many mantras were b...