mohammad tâher mirza eskandari est l’un des traducteurs des dernières années du règne de nasser-ed din chah et des premières années de celui de mozaffar-ed din chah. jusqu’avant l’établissement de la constitution en iran la traduction des œuvres d’alexandre dumas était le monopole de mohammad tâher mirza. ses compétences scientifiques et littéraires faisaient que le monarque, son héritier du tr...

comment étudier les textes romanesques français si nombreux depuis la formation définitive de la langue française au xviie siècle? c'est la question à laquelle les critiques ont essayé de répondre. pourtant, de la critique traditionnelle à celle moderne, le chercheur est confronté à une diversité vertigineuse qui ne cesse de croître. suite à la nouvelle critique rassemblant les jeunes critiques...

In his teleological antinomy in the Dialectic of the Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment, Kant presents two competing views of the explanatory power of causal mechanism for a science of origins. Kant expresses both the positive (thesis) view and the negative (antithesis) view in the guise of merely “regulative principles for the reflecting power of judgment”. The regulativity of thes...

In this paper we reflect on a project called 'Synthetic Aesthetics', which brought together synthetic biologists with artists and designers in paired exchanges. We - the STS researchers on the project - were quickly struck by the similarities between our objectives and those of the artists and designers. We shared interests in forging new collaborations with synthetic biologists, 'opening up' t...

This paper argues that Frith's (1992) account of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia in terms of a disruption of metarepresentational self-monitoring is inadequate in several specific ways. More generally, this paper argues against top-down explanations for the loss of the sense of agency in such symptoms. In addition, even if delusions of control might be explained by problems involved in m...

Preface – By Todd Litman This is a seminal article concerning traffic accident cost analysis and vehicle insurance pricing reform by Professor William Vickrey, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for economics. It describes how to determine the marginal accident costs of vehicle travel, identifies several problems associated with current insurance pricing and compensation practices, and proposes inn...