Religion rationnelle et éducation selon Robert Owen

Robert Owen And

HE Co-operative Movement was in its early days described by William Hazlitt as “a slip of Owenism grafted upon a stock of common sense”. This metaphor is not merely more apt, but also more accurate, than to call Owen the “father” of Co-operation. For one thing, there were co-operatives in Britain before Owen enunciated his plan of a new society, and even before he was born. Voluntary associatio...

Les compétences comme valeurs communes de l'emploi, éducation et formation

Robert Owen in the history of the social sciences: three presentist views.

This paper argues that the present-day disagreements over the right course for sociology and its public role are reflected and paralleled in contemporary historiography of Robert Owen, British social reformer and a self-described social scientist. Historical accounts, written from the perspectives of public sociology, "pure science" sociology, and anti-Marxism, interpret Owen's historical role ...

On Mordell-tornheim Sums and Multiple Zeta Values

RÉSUMÉ. Nous prouvons que toute somme de Mordell-Tornheim avec des arguments entiers positifs peut s’écrire comme une combinaison linéaire rationnelle de valeurs prises par des fonctions multi-zêta ayant le même poids et la même profondeur. Selon un résultat de Tsumura, il s’ensuit que toute somme de Mordell-Tornheim ayant un poids et une profondeur de parité différente peut s’exprimer comme un...

Owen Holland Editorial

In May 2001, the Swartz Foundation sponsored a workshop called ‘Can a machine be conscious?’ at the Banbury Center in Long Island (http://www. swartzneuro.org/banbury_2001.cfm). Around twenty psychologists, computer scientists, philosophers, physicists, neuroscientists, engineers, and industrialists spent three days in a mixture of short presentations and long and lively discussions. At the end...