No, World-System, Cogito Interruptus

Cogito: a system for computer-aided visualization

We contend that the computer can aid the creative endeavour of visualization beyond image production. Our system will allow users to effectively find personally meaningful visualizations amongst all those available.

Cogito ergo sum by MRI.

What is left of the human being when the brain is badly damaged has been a question for philosophers and theologians. Now, however, an imaginative series of experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, culminating in the article by Monti and colleagues in this issue of the Journal,1 has revealed a form of preserved cognition in ostensibly unconscious patients. The...

God, the Demon, and the Cogito

The purpose of this essay is to exhibit in detail the setting for the version of the Cogito Argument that appears in Descartes’s Meditations. I believe that a close reading of the text can shed new light on the nature and role of the “evil demon”, on the nature of God as he appears in the first few Meditations, and on the place of the Cogito Argument in Descartes’s overall scheme.

Anticoagulation interruptus: not without risk.

The need to withhold anticoagulation in patients requiring elective surgery poses a particularly important challenge when the risk of thrombosis and thromboembolism is high. In spite of the increasing use of prosthetic heart valves and the increasing prevalence of atrial fibrillation in the aging population, Kovacs et al1 make the important point in this issue of Circulation that there is a pau...

Governing for quality in a 'no-outcome, no-income' world.