Is It Virtuous to Love Truth and Hate Falsehood?

The converged appliance: "I love it... but I hate it"

The last decade has seen convergence marketed as one response to the challenge of users having to juggle an increasingly wide array of digital services, technologies and media. Key to this view is the assumption that by converging computer devices, and digital media, the value of technology for end users can be maximised whilst the overheads involved in purchasing, maintaining and orchestrating...

Love, Hate and Reparation

The Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-analysis. 8/6 This short book, which was first published in 1937 is now reprinted. It is No. 2 of the Psycho-analytical Epitomes. It is not an abridgement of a larger published work but consists of two lectures with the original Preface by John Rickman. It is good that these concise, non-technical lectures are again pasily available. The authors speak w...

Love and Hate

Professor Eibl-Eibesfeldt is a pupil of Konrad Lorenz, the father of ethology, and is director of the section concerned with human ethology at the Max Planck Institute for comparative physiology. This book is a translation from German and it follows an established tradition of Lorenz, Desmond Morris and others who are relating the human to animal behaviour as studied in various species of fishe...

PFS: the endpoint we love and love to hate.

Why do we love to hate ourselves?

Dhaliwal’s comment on Zwaan et al nicely refutes what has been called ‘the hypothesis of special cause’—the notion that when things turn out wrong, the cognitive processes leading to that outcome must have been fundamentally different (ie, error-prone) from when they turn out right. Dhaliwal’s argument recapitulates thinking that is over 100 years old; one of the early contributors to psycholog...