Abstract Background: Lycanthropy is an unusual belief or delusion in which the patient thinks that he/she has been transformed into an animal. In rare cases, the patient believes that another person has been transformed into an animal. Case Report: We report a patient with an uncommon variant of lycanthropy is introduced. The symptoms appeared after consumption of ecstasy. This show...

Lorenz’s mathematical model of the weather, made in 1963, describes the motion of the air through the atmosphere. More precisely, Lorenz observed the hot air rising up into the atmosphere, then cooling down and eventually falling to the ground. While observing the weather conditions, Lorenz noticed that the weather does not always behave in a foreseen manner. In his attempt of introducing a mat...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First, I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. Paul Hasler. I appreciate his patience with me as I stumble towards becoming a researcher. I'm always amazed by his ability to talk with students in detail for hours about a plethora of subjects relating to the lab's efforts. Probably most important is his confidence in the work of his students. He firmly believes in our capabilities...

When Sir Robert May was appointed chief scientific adviser to the British government five years ago he knew he was heading for interesting times. But no one could have quite predicted what he would have to face: bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the so called ‘mad cow disease’ infecting humans; bitter resistance to the introduction of genetically modified crops; fears surrounding global w...

Contextualism is relativism tamed. Relativism about truth is usually motivated by the idea of no-fault disagreement. Imagine two parties: one (she) says ‘P’; the other (he) says ‘Not P’. Apparently, if P then ‘P’ is true and ‘Not P’ false, so she is right and he is wrong; if not P then ‘P’ is false and ‘Not P’ true, so he is right and she is wrong. In both cases, there is an asymmetry between t...

Farshid Sadatsharifi has been visiting scholar at the Institute of Islamic Studies in McGill University, Montreal, Canada since 2016. He received his PhD and MA in Persian Language and Literature from Shiraz University, Iran. He also completed his post-doc fellowship in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature at the same university. Dr. Sadatsharifi is the co-founder and director of Samaak I...

In this article, we have attempted to scrutinize Freud’s psychological analysis of man and God. Four different interpretations of this Freudian analysis have been examined hereunder. Freud believes that religion is the outcome of wishful thinking or fear. Freud’s views on the origin of religion have been stated in a detailed fashion in his works on psychoanalysis. His The Future of an Illus...