Mary Parker Follett as Integrative Public Philosopher

Mary Parker Follett, managerial responsibility, and the future of capitalism

In this paper we examine the work of Mary Parker Follett as it relates to current management practice. Specifically, we focus on her development of the concepts of integration and participation with respect to the employer–employee relationship in the context of the low-skill workforce. At their core, both of these concepts relate to the idea that management should attend to the concerns of wor...

Newton as Philosopher

Albert Einstein as a Philosopher of Science

© 2005 American Institute of Physics, S-0031-9228-0512-010-9 N explicit engagement with the philosophy of science plays almost no role in the training of physicists or in physics research. What little the student learns about philosophical issues is typically learned casually, by a kind of intellectual osmosis. One picks up ideas and opinions in the lecture hall, in the laboratory, and in colla...

The public worth of Mary Somerville

This article assesses the reputation of Mary Somerville in the 1830s and suggests that critical confusion over her status in the changing world of early nineteenth-century science is not new. Drawing on Somerville ’s own writings, contemporary newspaper and periodical reviews, political debates and unpublished manuscripts, Somerville’s ‘uniqueness ’ as a public figure is examined through the ey...

Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan