It is widely acknowledged that emotion is deeply embedded in literary criticism. Even when we aspire to scientific analysis and objectivity, we assume that we share a love of literature. Loving Literature is a deep and fascinating exploration of this important assumption. Literary critics and professors of literature are expected not only to know but also to love their work. In the case of prof...

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Radical as this claim may seem to a casual reader, the actual alternative that emerges from integrating Noë’s arguments with the state of the art in vision research is in fact rather tame, if not entirely mainstream (hence the title of my review). The main reason for this happy, if somewhat anticlimactic, conclusion is that the first part of Noë’s thesis—that perception cannot be fully internal...

computers to learn from experience and understand the world in terms of a hierarchy of concepts. Because the computer gathers knowledge from experience, there is no need for a human computer operator formally to specify all of the knowledge needed by the computer. The hierarchy of concepts allows the computer to learn complicated concepts by building them out of simpler ones; a graph of these h...

" Galactic Encounters " by Sheehan and Conselice provides a view of galaxies telling the story of how astronomers have pieced together what is known about the modern view of the Universe. The book helps the reader to understand " why " we know what we do, not simply " what, " starting with the development of the telescope that coincides with the modern picture of the Universe. William Sheehan i...

It is by now commonplace that analytic epistemology has moved beyond its oftlamented obsession of safeguarding the analysis of knowledge from Gettier cases. One outflow of post-Gettier epistemology is the scrutiny of the social dimensions of knowing and believing. There are lively debates about testimony, assertion, disagreement, group knowledge, collective practices of inquiry, epistemic divis...

In 1999, Richard Gordon, at that time Professor of Radiology at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, published a two-volume work under the ambitious title The Hierarchical Genome and Differentiation Waves: Novel Unification of Development, Genetics and Evolution. Eighteen years later, Gordon and his wife and former colleague Natalie present the differentiation waves theory to a broader public....

COMMUNICATIONSTO THE EDITOR 551 arteriovenous oxygen content difference (C[a-v]02) equals 3; and the fractional concentration of oxygen in the inspired gas (F1o2) equals 0.40. From the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve, the arterial oxygen saturation equals 0.90. Since C(a-v)O, equals 3, the venous oxygen saturation (Sv02) equals 0.75 approximately. Using these figures, the QS/QT equals 0.502. T...