Owsei Temkin 1902–2002

Owsei Temkin 1902-2002.

Trade-offs, Transitivity, and Temkin †

The last few years have seen a number of new and important publications in moral theory. Arguably none more important than Larry S. Temkin’s Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning. This fascinating work highlights and explores in depth a seemingly fundamental inconsistency in our own axiological beliefs. Put roughly, the inconsistency arises given our general wi...

Philosophy and humanism. Renaissance essays in honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller

OWSEI TEMKIN, The doubleface ofJanus and other essays in the history ofmedicine, No-one can deny that Owsei Temkin is now the world's most distinguished historian of medicine. Who else in their writings can cover the whole span of medical history from pre-Greek Antiquity to the twentieth century with authority, flair, and impeccable scholarship? Which medically qualified historian of medicine h...

Respect for life in medicine, philosophy, and the law

OWSEI TEMKIN, WILLIAM K. FRANKENA and SANDFORD H. KADISH, Respectfor life in medicine, philosophy, and the law, Baltimore, Md., and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977, 8vo, pp. ix, 107, £5.95. There are three essays in this book, based on lectures originally delivered at The Johns Hopkins University in the spring of 1975: 'The idea of respect for life in the history of medicine' (...

T-matrix calculations for the electron-impact ionization of hydrogen in the Temkin-Poet model

An eigenchannel R-matrix expansion of the T matrix is used to calculate total integrated and ejected energy differential cross sections for the electron-impact ionization of hydrogen in the Temkin-Poet model. In previous close-coupling results, unphysical oscillations in the total ionization cross section could be averaged over due to the smooth dependence of the cross section on the incident e...