From Fletcher to Knudsen

Learning from REDD+: a response to Fletcher et al.

Arild Angelsen, ∗ Maria Brockhaus, Amy E. Duchelle, Anne Larson, Christopher Martius, William D. Sunderlin, Louis Verchot, Grace Wong, and Sven Wunder School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5033, N-1432, Ås, Norway Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Latokartanonkaari 7, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland Center for International Forestry R...

Logan Fletcher

Fred Dretske opens his book Knowledge and the Flow of Information with the assertion that information is objective. In contrast to the common view of information “as something that depends on the interpretive efforts— and, hence, on the prior existence—of intelligent life,” Dretske intends to develop a view of information “as an objective commodity, something whose generation, transmission, and...

Robert Fletcher

Laudatio to Professor Fletcher B. Taylor

For more than a half-century, cardiovascular scientist Fletcher B. Taylor, Jr., M.D., (portrayed above) has made important contributions to preclinical, translational and clinical research in vascular biology, coagulation and pathophysiology of sepsis. His work in the laboratory led to the creation of a lifesaving drug – the first and the only FDA-approved treatment for severe sepsis. So, the a...

Article 3 FLETCHER

As technology continues to progress beyond the limits of what was once thought impossible, questions concerning the state of the human dominate Western thought. However, while the lines between 'human' and 'nonhuman' are perpetually disintegrating, the human seems reluctant to move beyond humanist paradigms that deploy notions of ‘essence’ as both a unique human quality, and the justification o...