Conceiving of addicted pleasures: A ‘modern’ paradox

Liquid pleasures: a social history of drinks in modern Britain

suggested informed the master's publications.) Nevertheless, I do not think that this esoteric plea for constructivist accounts of the development of medical knowledge is a severe problem for McLaren. He does direct the reader to other sources which focus on these issues. If we accept that he has developed a large historical synthesis of much material in order to construct a coherent narrative ...

Zeno’s Paradox From A Modern Viewpoint

The diamond-wafer paradox: A modern mystery

I confess that I did not intend to take an inventory of the modest wealth my wife and I had accumulated in nine years of married life. But a pair of birds got stuck in the attic, tried to find their way out the rear window, and made a mess of things. It was not as psycho as a Hitch-cock movie, but it forced my wife and me to look hard at our belongings. We found our daughter Rebecca's baby clot...

The Pleasures of Counting: A Book Review

ertion,” they considered their book to be popular in that it required only “a good high school course” by way of background. And it was a popular book. I remain very fond of it for reasons that are personal as well as objective. As a high school student I had access to numerous algebra and trigonometry books that those of a certain age and British Commonwealth lineage would associate with the s...

Pleasures of the brain.

How does the brain cause positive affective reactions to sensory pleasure? An answer to pleasure causation requires knowing not only which brain systems are activated by pleasant stimuli, but also which systems actually cause their positive affective properties. This paper focuses on brain causation of behavioral positive affective reactions to pleasant sensations, such as sweet tastes. Its goa...