In this two hundredth anniversary year of his death, we are met to celebrate the life and career of Joseph Priestley—and most of us celebrate the wrong man, for the wrong reasons. We celebrate the pneumatic chemist who, in a flurry of random experiments made over a period of five years, isolated and partially identified nine new gases, including oxygen—and the man who spent roughly five times a...

Although western drama from Ibsen and Strindberg to the late twentieth century is often lumped together under the rubric of "modern drama," it is rare to come across a mention of "modern design." If design styles are discussed at all, it is usually when they are plainly related to identifiable art movements such as Constructivism or Surrealism or various branches of realism-suggestive realism, ...

The article examines the problem of comparing basic premises philosophy postmodernism and religious worldview, in particular, Christian doctrine. heuristic potential concept “kenosis” is revealed works Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo as applied to interpretation history simultaneously context doctrine postmodernism. In doctrine, kenosis means “exhaustion” God His voluntary descent into world...

At the beginning of twentieth century, French philosopher science Edmond Goblot wrote three prescient papers on function and teleology. He advanced remarkable thesis that functions are, as a matter conceptual analysis, selected effects. also argued “selection” must be understood broadly to include both evolutionary natural selection intelligent design. Here, I do things. First, give an overview...

When Christopher Langton first coined the term "artificial life" and organized the first conference of the nascent field in 1989, he envisioned that "We would like to build models that are so life‐like that they cease to become models of life and become examples of life themselves.” (Langton 1989). When Thomas Ray referred to his Tierra creatures four years later, he said: "These are not models...

William H. Thornton undertakes in his article, "A Postmodern Solzhenitsyn?," to bring Solzhenitsyn in from the cold, critically speaking, by closing the gap between him and his many postmodern detractors. That gap has been premised on the rough equivalence of poststructuralism and postmodernism. The postmodern realism advanced in this study challenges not only Solzhenitsyn's critics but his own...

As Shakespeare wrote in Much Ado About Nothing, “...there was never yet philosopher, That could endure the toothache patiently...” Indeed, perhaps the fundamental existential human experience is suffering. Under unbearable pain or distress, even the staunchest advocates of solipsism will eventually rescind their conviction that the world is only an illusion. What makes suffering so powerful in ...

Whilst the discipline of psychology has an indigenous critical and feminist tradition, postmodern feminist approaches have developed from, as well as alongside, the broader philosophical and theoretical critiques generated initially in other disciplines. The focus of postmodern feminist work in psychology is on the construction of gender and relations of power. It seeks to unpack the discursive...

Using new insights into strongly coupled gauge theories arising from analytic calculations and lattice simulations, we explore a framework for technicolor model building that relies on a non-trivial infrared fixed point, and an essential role for QCD. Interestingly, the models lead to a simple relation between the electroweak scale and the QCD confinement scale, and to the possible existence of...