Claude Piron Beholds His Beloved

CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS: The Man and His Works

Claude E. Shannon: A retrospective on his life, work, and impact

Claude E. Shannon invented information theory and provided the concepts, insights, and mathematical formulations that now form the basis for modern communication technology. In a surprisingly large number of ways, he enabled the information age. A major part of this influence comes from his two-part monumental 1948 paper, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication.” We attempt here to provide some...

Claude Bernard's revised edition of his Introduction à l'étude de la médecine expérimentale

Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. It is, therefore, appropriate that he should trace the history of their unwelcome symbiosis with man. He contends with justification that their importance to history is undoubted and extensive, because an awareness of their prevalence helps us to comprehend certain human social habits and manners. It is also useful knowledge when perusing the literature, non-scien...

Doja The shoulders of our giants : Claude Levi - Strauss and his legacy in current ́ anthropology

In the course of anti-structuralist criticism, the main thrust of LéviStrauss’s epistemological approach seems to have been lost, to the collective detriment of social sciences and anthropology. By its monumental character, Lévi-Strauss’s work evokes that of the founders of anthropology, whereas, by the way in which it puts in relation the cultural and the mental, it anticipates a theoretical a...

Claude Bernard: bicentenary of birth and his main contributions to neurology.

Claude Bernard (1813-1878) followed two main research paths: the chemical and physiological study of digestion and liver function, along with experimental section of nerves and studies on sympathetic nerves. Curare studies were, for example, of longstanding interest. His profound mental creativity and hand skillfulness, besides methodology quality, directed his experiments and findings, mainly ...