Ivan V. Kireevsky (1806 – 1856) and his lessons for contemporary philosophy

Lessons from Ivan Illich.

Almost 30 years have passed since the initial publication of Ivan Illich’s Limits to Medicine. Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health. A medieval historian who has been described as one of the world’s great thinkers, Illich introduced his iconoclastic work with the indictment, “the medical establishment has become a major threat to health.” The book makes a passing reference to radiology ...

Henri-Francois Secretan (1856-1916) and his syndrome.

Henri-François Secretan (1856-1916) was a Swiss physician, who in 1901 described a medical condition characterized by a hard, sometimes cyanotic oedema (Charcot's blue oedema) on the back of one or both hands and forearms. This condition was later known as Secretan's disease or Secretan's syndrome. This report discusses Henri Secretan and the syndrome that bears his name.

What’s Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?

Analytic Philosophy (AP), although it comes in many varieties, has four striking properties. First, it is cultivated with every appearance of theoretical rigour. Second, its practitioners do not, by and large, believe that philosophy is or can be a science, i.e., they do not believe that it can add to the stock of positive human knowledge. Third, the philosophers who until very recently were th...

Osteopathic Principles and Philosophy: a Contemporary View

Osteopathic medicine as we know it begins with Andrew Taylor Still, M.D. (1828 1917), who introduced its concepts in 1874. Still’s basic idea --that the human body was much like a machine, one that would function well if all its parts were in proper mechanical relationship --was unique compared to the medical thinking of the time. Doctor Still was a frontier doctor, and had trained like most ph...

Contemporary Philosophy of Science and Neoinstitutional Thought