Anti-Zionism and the Church

Computationalism, The Church-Turing Thesis, and the Church-Turing Fallacy

The Church–Turing Thesis (CTT) is often employed in arguments for computationalism. I scrutinize the most prominent of such arguments in light of recent work on CTT and argue that they are unsound. Although CTT does nothing to support computationalism, it is not irrelevant to it. By eliminating misunderstandings about the relationship between CTT and computationalism, we deepen our appreciation...

Pathologizing dissent: identity politics, Zionism and the 'self-hating Jew'.

This article discusses problems with Kurt Lewin's notion of self-hatred among Jews (Lewin, 1941/1948), and illustrates the ways in which the concept is used in identity politics. It argues that the way the notion of self-hatred is often used makes it problematic as a psychological concept because it requires that we accept particular definitions of group identities and particular political posi...

The Church and Medicine

MY first duty is to refer to the retirement of three members of the visiting staff. Dr. J. E. Morison, who joined us in 1948, is one of the few members of staff to retire before the age limit. He leaves us to take charge of another laboratory in the hospital service, after a fine recordl of brilliant and painstaking research. Our two senior physicians also retire. Dr. S. B. Boyd-Campbell, a son...

The Church and healing, (Studies in Church History, No. 19)

W. J. SHEILS (editor), The Church and healing, (Studies in Church History, No. 19), Oxford, Basil Blackwell for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 440, £19.50. This collection of essays represents a thoughtful, stimulating, and generally successful cooperative attempt by medical and ecclesiastical historians to study an important topic, the relationship between the Christi...

The Church and Mental Health