Comradely Critique

Forensic psychiatry: critique of a critique.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Forensic psychiatrists are the only psychiatrists that blush or need to." Dr. Alan Stone attempts to measure forensic psychiatry with an ethical ruler and finds it sadly short. The Hinckley trial was the most recent example that evoked yet another reexamination of the insanity defense and the role of psychiatrists in that process. Although this trial is never specific...

Cognitive Critique

Edward Tolman’s ideas on cognition and animal behavior have broadly influenced modern cognitive science. His principle contribution, the cognitive map, has provided deep insights into how animals represent information about the world and how these representations inform behavior. Although a variety of modern theories share the same title, they represent ideas far different than what Tolman prop...

Cognitive Critique

Traditionally, a sharp distinction was made between conscious perception of elapsed time, considered a key attribute of cognition, and automatic time processes involving basic sensory and motor functions. Recently, however, this dichotomous view has been challenged on the ground that time perception and timed actions share very similar features, at least for events lasting less than a second. F...

First Critique

Probably one of the reasons the paper was awarded the best paper award is the social implication and the practical applicability that the technology described in the paper has. It is not so often that you come across papers in computer science that have such a broad social implication. As the authors argue, even a partial solution to the problem that the paper attempts to solve would have a bro...

Cognitive Critique