Four groups of behavioral scientists with divergent theoretical persuasions--43 sociobiologists, 25 behaviorists, 35 personality psychologists, and 16 human developmentalists--showed significantly different mean scores on two measures of philosophical assumptions: the World Hypothesis Scale (WHS) and the Organicism-Mechanism Paradigm Inventory (OMPI). The OMPI, which appears to be more psychome...

The "global brain" is a metaphor for the intelligent network formed by the people of this planet together with the knowledge and communication technologies that connect them together. The different approaches leading up to this conception, by authors such as Spencer, Otlet, Wells, Teilhard, Russell and Turchin, are reviewed in their historical order. The contributions are classified in three ma...

This article discusses the conceptualisation of enuresis nocturna by Dutch experts between c.1950 and 1990, years in which across West new child sciences rapidly developed. Today, bedwetting is conceived as a mental illness caused mixture nature- nurture-bound factors. Have organic environmental causes always figured twins, even post-war decades predominant environmentalism psychological theory...

European literary histories are steeped in botanical metaphors. So, for example, the plant figure is found in the elaborations of Friedrich Schlegel, arguably the founder of modern literary history, as when he writes in Epochs of Poetry, ‘in the Homeric plant we see, as it were, the origin of all poetry; the roots are lost to our sight but the blossoms and branches of the plant emerge from the ...