Attitudes to life: Saint Paul and contemporary philosophy

Minneapolis-Saint Paul Cargo Study

Preface The Minneapolis-Saint Paul Task Force commissioned this study. It was established to address the apparent decline in air cargo through MSP airport in recent years. Distribution services, especially international air cargo, are strategic components of a region's infrastructure. They are essential to future growth and development as well as the economic success of established business and...

What’s Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?

Analytic Philosophy (AP), although it comes in many varieties, has four striking properties. First, it is cultivated with every appearance of theoretical rigour. Second, its practitioners do not, by and large, believe that philosophy is or can be a science, i.e., they do not believe that it can add to the stock of positive human knowledge. Third, the philosophers who until very recently were th...

Osteopathic Principles and Philosophy: a Contemporary View

Osteopathic medicine as we know it begins with Andrew Taylor Still, M.D. (1828 1917), who introduced its concepts in 1874. Still’s basic idea --that the human body was much like a machine, one that would function well if all its parts were in proper mechanical relationship --was unique compared to the medical thinking of the time. Doctor Still was a frontier doctor, and had trained like most ph...

Contemporary Philosophy of Science and Neoinstitutional Thought

Ready & Resilient: Climate Preparedness in Saint Paul, Minnesota

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