JOHN LAWRENCE LECONTE

Changing course in turbulent times: an interview with David Lawrence. Interview by John K. Iglehart.

John Barwise and Lawrence Moss, Vicious Circles: On the mathematics of Non-Wellfounded Phenomena

“[T]o a greater or lesser degree, every scientific advance marks some departure from the common sense that preceded it.” These words of Irving M. Copi (1979: 195) seem to summarize the nature of Vicious Circles in the most concise fashion. Following the steps of Aczel’s (1988) ground-breaking monograph which marked a departure from the “common sense” that is attributed to classical set theory, ...

Three pioneers of comparative psychology in America, 1843-1890: Lewis H. Morgan, John Bascom, and Joseph LeConte.

Scientific comparative psychology in America dates from the mid-1890s, but there is a body of earlier literature on the topic, written during a period of theistic debates over Darwinian evolution. The anthropologist Lewis H. Morgan rejected instinct as an explanation of animal behavior in 1843 and defended the mental similarities between animals and humans, although he was not an evolutionist. ...

Lawrence Kruger

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