Damian Grant, Salman Rushdie romancier

A modern Cosmas and Damian: Sir

Cosmas and Damian, the patron saints of surgeons, were twin brothers who dedicated their lives to healing the sick (Figure 1). They are most revered for performing the first transplant operation, when they replaced the gangrenous leg of the sacristan Justinian with one from a recently deceased soldier. In the 1940s and 1950s, when Thomas Starzl and Sir Roy Calne (Figure 2) were training to be s...

Memorials to Modernity: Postcolonial Pilgrimage in Naipaul and Rushdie

Morse theory and Floer homology Meknès , 2012 Mihai Damian

The two theories we will describe in these lectures have many things in common. They both associate algebraic invariants to some geometric objects. The meaning of ”invariant” is that the algebraic object which is the outcome of the theory only depends on the initial geometric data and not on the methods specific to the theory. In other words, the invariant measures some quantity related to the ...

New Grant

The landmark observation of phenotype inheritance in peas by Augustinian Mandel’s in 1866 was the first concept that subsequently evolved as a framework for a new science, which is now known as genetics. The relentless search for genetic elements that predispose to a disease state reached a peak when the human genome project was completed in 2003, which led to extensive investigation of genome-...

Stephen Grant

This article examines recent developments in cognitivist theories of the emotions, and seeks to develop an original theory within that approach. The article specifically considers the criticism that such theories over-intellectualise emotions by reducing them to attitudes towards propositions and by excluding feelings. I argue that few cognitivists have ever held the former position, and that i...