In its original form due to Ian Hacking, entity realism postulates a criterion of manipulative success which replaces explanatory virtue as the criterion of justified scientific belief. The article analyses the foundations on which this postulate rests and identifies the conditions on which one can derive a form of entity realism from it. It then develops in detail an extensive class of counter...

The aim of this essay is to investigate discursive, cognitive and social aspects of manipulation in regard to the dialogues of the literary fictional character of Gandalf in the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings. Accordingly, the researcher has taken a multidisciplinary approach to an account of discursive manipulation, and focuses on the cognitive dimensions of manipulation. As a result, the re...

Contact state is an important element in teaching robot to manipulate an object in Learning from Observation paradigm. Contact between hand and object is changed during dexterous manipulation, and these changes are difficult to detect. An alternative approach for discovering this information is proposed by considering contact states in a human hand movement. A main contribution of this study is...

Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) is an important aspect of pain management and disease prevention. Advantages of OMT administered postoperatively include easy implementation and cost-effectiveness in terms of shortened hospital stays resulting from effective relief of acute pain. Patients who receive morphine preoperatively and OMT postoperatively tend to have less postoperative pain an...

This book will be welcomed by those who are forced to admit the successes of the bone-setters and who desire to read an authoritative account of manipulative methods by a skilled surgeon. The author deplores the obstinately conservative attitude of the medical profession towards manipulation and in this connection records with approval the reply of John Hunter to Sir Astley Cooper who reminded ...