Sir Martin Roth FRS

Sir Martin Roth FRS: an appreciation.

Since the mid-19th century central Europe had been the cradle of conceptual thinking had been the cradle of conceptual thinking in clinical psychiatry. Following the turbu-in clinical psychiatry. Following the turbulence and persecution in the 1920s and lence and persecution in the 1920s and 1930s some of a later generation of mid-1930s some of a later generation of mid-European psychiatrists e...

Sir Jack Baldwin, FRS: biomimetic studies at Oxford.

October 2005 has brought about the end of an era in organic chemistry at the University of Oxford. Almost two years since the doors of the Dyson Perrins (DP) Laboratory were closed to organic chemistry, the last Head of this renowned department has retired his chair. Professor Sir Jack Baldwin, FRS (Fig. 1), Wayneflete Professor of Organic Chemistry, joined Oxford in 1978, succeeding Sir Ewart ...

Sir Leonard Rogers, FRS (1868-1962) and his papers.

Sir Leonard Rogers (Fig. 1) was a "perfect tiger for hard work"' and, moreover, meticulously careful and thorough in everything that he did. It would not, therefore, have surprised his colleagues to learn that he preserved much of the paperwork he acquired during his long career and spent many hours of his retirement sorting, rearranging , and annotating his diaries, records, and correspondence...

Inspector-General Sir James Ranald Martin, C.B., F.R.S.

ROBERT CUMMINS, PIERRE POIRIER and MARTIN ROTH EPISTEMOLOGICAL STRATA AND THE RULES OF RIGHT REASON

It has been commonplace in epistemology since its inception to idealize away from computational resource constraints, i.e., from the constraints of time and memory. One thought is that a kind of ideal rationality can be specified that ignores the constraints imposed by limited time and memory, and that actual cognitive performance can be seen as an interaction between the norms of ideal rationa...