Martin Seligman and Avicenna on Happiness

From Helplessness to Hope: The Seminal Career of Martin Seligman

This book explores a specific field of psychological research, but it also celebrates the profound contributions to this field of Martin E. P. Seligman. Therefore, the book blends the history of this research enterprise and Seligman's own intellectual history. This chapter reviews the modest origins of the phenomenon of "learned helplessness" in the animal laboratory, its extensions to human be...

A Seligman-Style Tableau System

Proof systems for hybrid logic typically use @-operators to access information hidden behind modalities; this labeling approach lies at the heart of most resolution, natural deduction, and tableau systems for hybrid logic. But there is another, less well-known approach, which we have come to believe is conceptually clearer. We call this Seligman-style inference, as it was first introduced and e...

Avicenna and Oral Lithotripters

Renal Stone is one of the fairly common diseases in all over the world. According to statistics , its prevalence in America is between 10 to 15% (1). Iran and its neighbors such as Turkey and Pakistan locate on stone-making region. The exact prevalence and incidence rates of urinary calculi in Iran are not clear (2). Since a) mortality rate in this disease is not high, b) there is no longer tim...

Avicenna on Induction

Avicenna and Evidence Based Medicine

Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is now generally perceived to be the dominant operating system in conventional medicine. It is unsurprising then that some have counseled complementary and alternative medicine practitioners to resist EBM . The efficacy of medicinal herbs does need to be established and toxicity, contraindications and side effects also need to be investigated, and this is best done...