In our view, the biopsychosocial model is a vision and an approach to practice rather than an empirically verifiable theory, a coherent philosophy, or a clinical method. In some cases, when that vision is confused with ideologic dogmatism, it can invite abandonment of the vision entirely or in selected situations. The authors suggest that habits of mind may be the missing link between a biopsyc...

In After Finitude, Meillassoux asks an epoch-defining question: how can we criticize both ideological dogmatism and skeptical fanaticism if the rise of is effect Kantian critical philosophy one must employ against dogmatism? Meillassoux's answer to argue in favor thought's ability access absolute necessity contingency. Agamben Laruelle give alternative answer. Although very different style argu...

I review the problem of the choice of the priors from the point of view of a physicist interested in measuring a physical quantity and I try to show that the reference priors often recommended for the purpose Je reys priors do not t to the problem Although it may seem sur prising it is easier for an experienced physicist to accept subjective priors or even purely subjective elicitation of proba...

A little knowledge may be a dangerous thing, but there is another side to the picture, and even a slight knowvledge will reveal possibilities and make limitations clearer. The imore a man knows in any branch of medicine, the less liable he is to dogmatism, with its consequent errors and dangers. A knowledge of the nature and function of radiology, and its possibilities in diagnosis and therapeu...

B-oth clinical and non-clinical students of the vitamins should find this book exceedingly valuable. Much of the literature in the field is highly controversial and therefore dogmatic statements on many points are as yet unwarranted. The authors have done well to avoid dogmatism, and to indicate always that a given "conclusion" was one advanced by certain investigators in reporting their study;...

What amazes me about such people is their smug dogmatism and their colossal arrogance. They "know," and are completely certain of things that cannot be known, and their "knowledge" is not harmless because it is made the basis for vicious conduct. To such fanatics one can only quote the words (suitably adjusted) of Oliver Cromwell in a letter he wrote to the General Assembly of the Church of Sco...

With the increasing emphasis on core literacy, concept of STSE education has been widely used in high school biology courses. In this paper, we analyze three levels lesson preparation, teaching and evaluation, find that there is still much room for improvement implementation education, i.e., misunderstanding connotation single material selection, lack holistic participatory process, "dogmatism"...