this article is concerned with eugene fontinell’s idea about personal immortality. fontinell has offered a specific view about the possibility of afterlife, through employing the experimental method, william james’s pragmatic method, and also developing william james’s field theory and his psychological ideas about the “self”.  fontinell believes that it is possible to imagine immortality in a ...

Gathorne Robert Girdlestone was born in 1881, the son of the Rev. R.B. Girdlestone, Honorary Canon of Christ Church, Oxford [3]. His early education was at Charterhouse, then he read medicine at New College, Oxford. Girdlestone received his subsequent medical training at St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, completing his house appointment there. He subsequently went to Oswestry, where he was influenc...

be " in charge of publicity and jackets, " which included the designing of the latter. Through this, his appreciation of the visual appeal of books was bolstered by the practical experience of trying to make books look good. His office in the Victorian building that served as both staff headquarters and stock warehouse was next to that of philosopher and art historian Herbert Read, who served p...

Background: Normal children understand and use embodiment metaphorical expressions since they start learning a language, but children suffering from William’s syndrome even in adulthood have little understanding of such expressions and they can hardly use them. Objectives: This study is an attempt to teach embodiment metaphorical expressions of 4.5-5 year old Persian children suffering...

In one of his most popular books (Wonderful Life), the late Stephen Jay Gould singled out for special praise the work on the Burgess Shale (those well-preserved, soft-bodied, Cambrian organisms found in a deposit in the Canadian Rockies) of English paleontologist Simon Conway Morris. At the same time, however, Gould used Conway Morris's findings as support for his own thesis about the non-direc...