From Marginalism to Dualism: On Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Awareness

From Mental/Physical Identity to Substance Dualism

Dualism: from Descartes and Bacon to AJNR.

T he Oxford English Dictionary defines duality as " an opposition or contrast between two concepts or aspects. " 1 In the American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR), I see these aspects reflected in the nature of our articles, which are either basic research or clinically oriented. Basic research articles tend to be multiauthored, hypothesis-driven, and thus prospective, blinded, and controlled,...

From Plato's Dualism to user Interface Development

Today, many devices are available, and they use different languages. From a user point of view, the system is its user interface, and this idea is used in this paper to provide a pattern-based design solution where platform independent and dependent levels are connected in a model-based user interface development and reflective environment. Platform independent and dependent levels have similar...

Developmental and Cross-Cultural Evidence for Intuitive Dualism

Humans may intuitively be dualists, imagining physical bodies and non-physical minds as distinct and separable. Intuitive dualism has been invoked to explain diverse phenomena, including the spread and distribution of religious beliefs and our intuitions about psychological illnesses. Alternatively, dualism may be learned gradually by participation in cultures with a Cartesian intellectual trad...

The vital principle of Paul Joseph Barthez: the clash between monism and dualism.

IN TE history of eighteenth-century medicine, the name of the Medical University of Montpellier is practically synonymous with the theory of vitalism. In its most general sense, vitalism assumes that the study of organic phenomena cannot be reduced to a branch of physics or chemistry. It affirms that the living body possesses some unique entity, a soul, force, faculty or principle which causes ...