Demythologizing the Third Realm: Frege on Grasping Thoughts

Frege on Thoughts and Their Structure*

Thoughts are essentially structured. That much is agreed by almost everybody who finds it useful to talk about thoughts. Consequently, any account of the nature of thoughts must incorporate an account of their structure. Frege's is the most comprehensive and worked-out account of the nature of thoughts, but recent work has cast doubt on whether he can be credited with a coherent conception of h...

Third Thoughts on Contracting Out

L i k e many libertarians, I used to accept without question the idea that contracting out for government services was a good idea. After all, it puts production back into the hands of relatively efficient private producers. However, after reviewing the literature o n contracting out for law enforcement services (Benson 1990, pp. 17999), I had some second thoughts, concluding that while contrac...

Further Thoughts on the Third Stage - Sara Wickham

© www.sarawickham.com This article first published 1999 Practising Midwife 2(10):14-15. Republished with permission for personal use only. Page numbers do not correspond to the original. Please do not reproduce/reprint without prior permission, thank you. The third stage of labour has, for some time, been one of the hottest clinical topics in midwifery. Although both of the major research studi...

Demythologizing the stem cell juggernaut.

Second and Third Thoughts on Privatisation in Indonesia

I ndonesia’s economic policies began to become much more market oriented during the 1980s. Various policy reforms were implemented, notably in the field of international trade (Fane and Condon, 1996). In addition, there came to be a new emphasis on privatisation, although this was nearly all talk and no action (Hill, 2000:103-5). In 1989 the then Finance Minister announced that 52 state-owned e...