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Emil J Freireich and Baruch Spinoza: birds of a feather?

testing-point in modern philosophy, so that it may really be said: You are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all. Might we say: You are either a Freireich or not an oncologist at all? Because of

Emil J. Freireich: Legend in Cancer Research (March 16, 1927 to February 1, 2021)

to “tone it down a bit”). Yet, in my 43 years of knowing Freireich, he never once showed anything but support, love, and respect. Freireich often sacrificed political capital for the sake of

First person – Hsin-Yi Lee

senior high-school student, my biology teacher gave brilliant lectures. She not only explained textbooks well, but also discussed philosophy with me and other questions a young boy has. She was so

First person – Ana Romarowski

allows me to ask questions and answer them: that is one of the things I enjoy most in my life! I started studying philosophy because I had the naive idea that if I studied the mother of all sciences I was

Why won’t it Stick? Positive Psychology and Positive Education

Escamilla Santana, Sir Anthony Seldon, Professor Martin Seligman and Professor Kaiping Peng and during the Summit. 3. Specific virtues or values and character-based education lessons based in philosophy or ... -being has severe competition in the political arena. For example, in the Australia, schools are called on to engage with and implement The National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN

Cell scientist to watch – Dana Branzei

sometimes my soul speaks in poems and I write them down. It may be something related to science, to love, to nature… I also appreciate spirituality, the Japanese approach to life, the Chinese philosophy of

The wave I

from cave man to philosopher was in the blink of an eye. Yes, the history of philosophy contained periods of unyielding ‘group think,’ but we managed to change course pretty often. There are many such

Cell scientist to watch – Mitchell Guttman

us, and I know that we've benefitted tremendously from interacting with her. How do you get the most out of the meetings you attend? I can't say that I had a particularly well-formulated philosophy

Editorial for “Positive Computing: A New Partnership Between Psychology, Social Sciences and Technologists”

the creation and blossoming of partnerships between many disciplines including linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and what was then the newly-formed field of “cognitive sciences

Freedom and happiness in nations: why the Finns are happier than the French

fits that wider pattern. 2. Concepts and measures The terms happiness and freedom are often used in political rhetoric, but are in that context seldom properly defined. Greater precision is required ... available information on choice restrictions in the domains of economic life, political life and private life of citizens (or individuals within that nation). Economic freedom is measured by absence of

How we know III: taking the bull by the horns

the approaches elaborated by these disciplines. We regard any attempt to derive answers to scientific problems based on non-scientific methods as bullstuff, and correctly so. No amount of philosophy ... regularly rewrite the past to make it seem that there has been a steady march leading to the present progress and that this Whig view (so called because this now vanished political group were famous for

Henry F. Epstein, M.D. (1944–2013)

knowledge that no other meetings should be scheduled on Friday afternoon. Indeed, the intense discussions often took tangents ranging from scientific history to philosophy and revealed one of the most

Targeted mutational profiling of peripheral T-cell lymphoma not otherwise specified highlights new mechanisms in a heterogeneous pathogenesis

TRR in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate Immunology Program of the University in part by NIH Predoctoral Training Grant 5T32 AI007485 (TRR), by

Sharyn Endow

. My brother was trained as a chef and I love talking with him about the philosophy of food and its preparation. Or perhaps I would have worked in the arts my former roommate from my graduate student ... knowledge in a field, creativity, technical expertise, the facility to adapt new techniques, administrative ability, computer expertise, political adeptness, the ability to write well and quickly, and to

Editorial

the integration of knowledge gained from diverse research fields both within psychology and where psychology intersects with other disciplines (e.g., biology, economics, philosophy, sociology and

Communication Styles of Interactive Tools for Self-Improvement

allocation task to an independent rater holding a PhD in physics and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. The independent rater again processed 50 % of the material, i.e. nine interviews, the interrater

Aristotle: the first student of angiogenesis

the philosophy of biology as distinct branches of episteme (the human knowledge).9 He was indeed the first scholar who undertook an extensive and systematic investigation of the living world as a ... natural philosophy. This does not mean that his biological treatises would not contain observational and conceptual mistakes, but the magnitude and the quality of his work were absolutely outstanding. More

Margaret (Peggy) Wheelock (1945-2009): cell scientist, mentor and friend

Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. As an insatiable student of natural science, Peggy immediately began graduate studies and, in 1982, she was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy in Cell Biology. talents, and

The Relationship Between Intelligence and Psychological Well-Being in Incoming College Students

courses associated with these fields, to the exclusion of liberal arts classes, such as literature and philosophy. Such classes may nurture reflection about one’s “goals, intentions, [and] a sense of

When conflicted becomes corrupted II – the Molette doctrine

or political games. Just recently a close colleague told me that I am a character. It made me laugh at the time, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that was the perfect description