Herbert Clark Hubler

‘ Coordination ’ ( Herbert H Clark ) , ‘ integration ’ ( Roy Harris ) and the foundations of communication theory : common ground or competing visions ?

The paper explores the relationship between Herbert H Clark’s conception of language use as ‘coordination’ in joint action and Roy Harris’s view of sign-making as an ‘integration’ of activities. On the face of it, the two approaches have much in common. Both Clark and Harris have raised fundamental objections to traditional linguistic approaches: Clark has counterposed an 'action tradition' to ...

Herbert Thoms

The eventful chapters of contemporaneous medical history in Connecticut have not yet received the historian's scrutiny and are still only records scattered here and there in organization archives and miscellaneous correspondence. Many of us have been a part of these events and as participants are poorly qualified to place values on them. As in all history, one must await the developing vista of...

Herbert Herbert: his corneal pits and scleral slits.

PURPOSE To evaluate the life and professional work of the English ophthalmologist Herbert Herbert (1865-1942). DESIGN Historical study. METHODS The main sources for this investigation are Herbert's approximately 65 published papers and 3 monographs. Other sources are contemporary publications by other ophthalmologists and secondary historical reviews of this period. Written communications w...

Clark Glymour

Twenty years ago, Nancy Cartwright wrote a perceptive essay in which she clearly distinguished causal relations from associations, introduced philosophers to Simpson’s paradox, articulated the difficulties for reductive probabilistic analyses of causation that flow from these observations, and connected causal relations with strategies of action (Cartwright 1979). Five years later, without appr...

Katerina Clark