The Victoria Institute was established in London 1865. Although billed as an anti-evolutionary organization, and stridently anti-Darwinian its rhetoric, it spent relatively little time debating the theory of natural selection. Instead, served a haven for specific set intellectual commitments. Most important among these Baconian scientific methodology, which prized empiricism induction, suspicio...

The author responds to Professor Kottow's criticisms, explaining numerous errors and misconceptions.

The decision of director Quentin Tarantino to kill Adolf Hitler in his film Inglorious Basterds has sparked criticism for alleged forgery of history. However, when studying the archives of the Jewish ghetto in Poland, Swedish writer Steve SemSendberg noted that fiction has started with the preservation of the first document. Had the Boston bomber not appeared on the cover of the Rolling Stone m...

“Lyric tradition” was put forward by Chen Shixiang, a scholar in the United States, speech 1970s.It became view of characteristics Chinese literature, and developed widely accepted later literary criticism,becoming one most productive views foreign Sinology last century. But recent years academic circle its theory system,there are some dissenting voices on system, among which critical criticism...

BACKGROUND As suggested by Shook and Giordano, understanding and therefore addressing the urgent international governance issues around globalizing bio-medical/technology research and applications is limited by the perception of the underlying science. METHODS A philosophical methodology is used, based on novel and classical philosophical reflection upon existent literature, clinical wisdoms ...

Résumé When thinking of Adorno and music criticism, two strategies suggest themselves. The one is to look at the kind of criticism, cultural criticism in general and music criticism in particular, propagated by Adorno. It is, after all, difficult to overestimate the degree of his influence on musical thought in the twentieth century (whether one agrees with his views or not) and of the intellec...

viewpoint by the late Mirko Grmek. As he points out, Epidemics 5 and 7 are remarkable examples of ancient casereporting, often giving sufficient detail to allow a precise modem diagnosis. In this respect they are in no way inferior to the more famous Epidemics 1 and 3, and show the Greek physician at the bedside in an extremely favourable light. Indeed, on at least one occasion a modem clinical...

Sociolinguistic research suggests that women are more likely than men to use politeness strategies in their speech. Researchers have reported that women pay more compliments than men, that women in talk with same-sex peers use a large number of positive-politeness strategies while men in analogous situations do not, and that women are more likely to apologize, soften criticism or express thanks...