Stanley Cavell at Amherst College

Using Stanley Cavell

Automat, Automatic, Automatism: Rosalind Krauss and Stanley Cavell on Photography and the Photographically Dependent Arts

1. Crossing Disciplines How might philosophers and art historians make the best use of one another’s research? That, in nuce, is what this special issue considers with respect to questions concerning the nature of photography as an artistic medium; and that is what my essay addresses with respect to a specific case: the dialogue, or lack thereof, between the work of the philosopher Stanley Cave...

Edith Cavell

Several of them are well known: C. W. Hufeland's, 'Begriffund Wesen der Krankheit' (1975); Virchow's, 'Tber die heutige Stellung der Pathologie' (1869); Ribbert's, 'Das Wesen der Krankheiten' (1909); Canguilhem's, 'Essai sur quelques problemes concernant le normal et le pathologique' (1950); Freud's, 'Die Arzt und der Kranke' (1927); Rather's, 'Zur Philosophie des Begriffs "Krankheit"' (1958); ...

David D . McDonald University of Massachusetts at Amherst July 1985

When studied as a source of insight into the human language faculty, rather than to construct a commercially useful service, mechanical translation (MT) is carried out by coupling an otherwise normal natural language parsing system to a normal natural language generation system. In this paper we propose that a crucial capability has been omitted from the design of the parsers that have been use...

Some Motor Cycles at the Stanley Show

more apparent to other users of the roads than to the rider, but on the other hand it is so speedy and economical a means of transit that its votaries are increasing in number every year. This year's show provides ample proof of steady progress in the evolution of a satisfactory machine, and the growing popularity of the light weight machine is perhaps the most striking tendency of the year. Am...