Feeble-Mindedness and Heredity

Heredity of feeble-mindedness.

Feeble-Mindedness and Juvenile Crime

Gardening and the Feeble-Minded

as the outdoor activities of mental defectives in institutions had previously been limited to elementary jobs, such as sweeping the paths, and generally acting as labourers to the staff engaged on the ornamental gardens. It was recognised that, for many years, patients in large mental institutions and colonies had been employed on farms, pig feeding, etc.; some of them had been taught to milk c...

Time-Mindedness and Jurisprudence

Gerald Postema offers a gentle but damning critique of contemporary analytic jurisprudence for being antisocial , anti-philosophical, ahistorical, and, ultimately, mistaken not only about the province of jurisprudence but the nature of law. He also offers an elegant restatement of what jurisprudence with a wider ambition must be like; and it is a jurisprudence in which time and history are cent...

Naturalness and Mindedness: Hegel’s Compatibilism

The problem of freedom in modern philosophy has three basic components: (i) what is freedom, or what would it be to act freely? (ii) Is it possible so to act? (iii) And how important is leading a free life?1 Hegel proposed unprecedented and highly controversial answers to these questions. (i) What we want to be able to explain when we ask ‘what is freedom?’ are the conditions that must be fulfi...