This article claims that health promotion is best practiced in the light of an Aristotelian conception of the good life for humans and of the place of health within it.

Ulrich Meyer’s fascinating book The Nature of Time uses a novel development of Arthur Prior’s tense logic to argue for a ‘modal’ account of time. Meyer’s metaphysical view requires tense primitivism (the view that truths are irreducibly tensed) and so, in Quine’s turn of phrase, trades ontology for ideology. Meyer’s temporal metaphysics eschews ontological commitment to temporal instants throug...

The roots of symbolic logic can be traced as far back as to the study of syllogisms by Aristotle. However, it was not until the second half of the nineteenth century that its modern form began crystallizing, whereas solid foundations had to wait until the second decade of the twentieth century. Symbolic logic is concerned with the validity of arguments, for whose study it abstracts away from co...