The roots of cognitive science go as far back as those of philosophy. One way of defining cognitive science is to say that it is just naturalised philosophy. Much of contemporary thinking about the mind derives from René Descartes' distinction between the body and the soul. They were constituted of two different substances and it was only humans that had a soul and were capable of thinking. Acc...

When executives examine how smart their innovation processes are, the soul-searching involves questions of effectiveness, efficiency, and risk. How does the company’s record of success in innovation stand up against competitors’? Does the company achieve an adequate return on its investments in technology? Is the company’s innovation process sufficiently under control to improve the predictabil...

1'ancienne the'orie humorale (p. xi), preferring the simpler Hippocratic model. Starobinski concludes that the non-Galenic systems of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries-from Paracelsus to Hahnemann-were no less speculative and dogmatic than Galenism itself, even Cartesian mechanism which, albeit discarding Galen's teleology, stuck to constructions hypothetico-d6ductives. In their introductio...

The article is written in connection with the comprehensive exhibition project “Blagovestnov. Prophecies of Present” (April 28 – October 2, 2022). In a carefully thought-out author`s space exposition works by Alexey Blagovestnov, corresponding member Russian Academy Arts, from Pereslavl Museum-Reserve and private collections were combined wooden sculpture XVIII-XIX centuries collection Rostov K...