Researching vernacular Judaism: reflections on theory and method

Reflections on Researching the Rugged Fitness Landscape

The success of an informing system depends upon achieving a fit between multiple entities: the sender, the client, the delivery system, and the task to be performed. Conceptually, the effectiveness of such informing can be modeled as a fitness landscape—a function that maps the characteristics of the system into a scalar fitness value. The assumed shape of that landscape plays a major role in d...

Evidence for Healthy Cities: reflections on practice, method and theory.

The European Healthy Cities project can be characterized as a social movement that employs an extremely wide range of political, social and behavioural interventions for the development and sustenance of urban population health. At all of these levels, the movement is inspired by ideological, theoretical and evidence-based perspectives. The result of this stance is a dynamic, complex and divers...

Judaism on medicine.

Many religions, I'm tempted to say all religions except Judaism, are death cults. Religions deal typically with the problems of death and are attempts to bypass death, deny death, or distort death. The most obvious example would be the Eygptian religion, since, as we now know, the cult, the pyramids, the priest-craft, and the sacred texts were all designed to assure at least the Pharaoh of immo...

Reflections on Self-Determination Theory

The present collection of articles in this special issue on selfdetermination theory (SDT) reflects the quality and creativity of the research conducted by Canadian motivation researchers. In this concluding article, we make some general comments that underscore common elements in these articles. Furthermore, we highlight some issues that may not have attracted researchers’ attention but would ...

Reflections on Ethics and Game Theory