Maria Irene Fornes Recites / Resites Women's Desires

Irene S . Figari ?

From the *Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of medicine and New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111; the *Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02152; the OLaboratory of Medical Biochemistry, Rockefeller University, New York 10021; and the Departments of U Pharmacological Science and ~Medicinal Analytical Chemistry, Genentech, Inc., South ...

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

Realistic desires

Realism for agents with unconditional beliefs, desires and intentions (BDI agents) has been analyzed in modal logic. This paper provides a logical analysis of realism for agents with conditional beliefs and desires in a rule based approach analogous to Reiter’s default logic. We distinguish two types of realism, which we call ‘a priori’ and ‘a posteriori’ realism. We analyze whether these two n...

Dynamic Desires

Maria Montessori

The figure of Maria Montessori stands out above most of those who were involved in the New Education movement. Rarely have attempts been made to establish a set of educational precepts, which would have such universal validity as hers, and very few others had such a powerful influence on developments in the world as a whole. The all-embracing nature of her ideas is perhaps all the more astonish...