Hansgeorg Conert (19.3.1933-6.1.2004) als Wissenschaftler, Linkssozialist udn Individualist

Defining Mental Illness: Collectivist versus Individualist Approaches

Die Bibliometrische Vermessung von Wissenschaft und Wissenschaftler(Inne)n

Zur Bestimmung des Outputs von Forschung werden zunehmend bibliometrische Kennzahlen herangezogen. Indikatoren sind jedoch stets unvollständig und Datenbanken sind selten vollständig und frei von Fehlern. Folglich stellt sich die Frage, wie zuverlässig bibliometrische Maßzahlen, die auf Daten des ISI beruhen, den Output von wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen und von einzelnen Wissenschaftlern mes...

Mental Defect. The Point of View of an Individualist

Why are we apt to take credit for our brains ? No man by taking thought can add to his inborn capacity, and a good intellectual endowment is supreme among the gifts that come through no virtue of our own. Supreme, in that it is the power of abstract thought which raises man above the brutes, and makes possible joys which we sometimes take for granted. Intellect truly " unveils the hidden beauty...

Individualist and Multi-level Perspectives on Selection in Structured Populations

Recent years have seen a renewed debate over the importance of group selection, especially as it relates to the evolution of altruism. One feature of this debate has been disagreement over which kinds of processes should be described in terms of selection at multiple levels, within and between groups. Adapting some earlier discussions, we present a mathematical framework that can be used to exp...

Mission Command 2.0: From an Individualist to a Collectivist Model

Anthony C. King, the chair of War Studies at the University of Warwick, recently authored The Combat Soldier: Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2013 Oxford University Press, 2013) and Frontline: Combat and Cohesion in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a book on divisional command which will be published nex...