Since Boorse [Philos Sci 44(4):542–573, 1977] published his paper “Health as a theoretical concept” one of the most lively debates within philosophy medicine has been on question whether health and disease are in some sense ‘objective’ ‘value-free’ or ‘subjective’ ‘value-laden’. Due to apparent ‘failure’ pure naturalist, constructivist, normativist accounts, much recent literature appealed more...

Many interspecific commensal foraging interactions involving birds have been documented. We describe an observation of commensal foraging by a fan-tailed warbler (Euthlypis lachrymosa) with a nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) in Guerrero, southwestern Mexico. Our observation is similar to those reported from El Salvador by (Komar and Hanks, 2002) and indicates 560 The Southwestern Na...

Statistical Comments on Cohen's Application of a Simple Stochastic Population Model to Natural Primate Troops Author(s): Niels Keiding Reviewed work(s): Source: The American Naturalist, Vol. 111, No. 982 (Nov. Dec., 1977), pp. 1211-1219 Published by: The University of Chicago Press for The American Society of Naturalists Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2460266 . Accessed: 19/10/2012 14:36

To assess the ability of traditional biological recording schemes and lay citizen science approaches to gather data on species distributions and changes therein, we examined bumblebee records from the UK's national repository (National Biodiversity Network) and from BeeWatch. The two recording approaches revealed similar relative abundances of bumblebee species but different geographical distri...

Alister Hardy was one of the pioneers scientific study spiritual experiences (SE); however, his work and insights have not received attention they deserve. This paper, based on an in-depth analysis Hardy’s own writings, presents main methodological epistemological contributions for advancing investigation SE. propositions were as follows: transcendent core spirituality SE a major source R/S bel...