[Editor’s Preface] [This chapter is from Charles Babbage’s Essays on the Philosophy of Analysis. The part of the book in which this chapter occurs was called by Babbage in his autobiography ”The Philosophy of Invention”. To understand the context of the article Of Induction, read two subsections of the appendix of this document: (1) Babbage’s notes on this essay from his autobiography and (2) t...

Abstract The development of animal autobiography as a genre has been constrained by the narrative possibility and epistemological impossibility animals autobiographers. In spite its limitations, still developed into different generic forms. Noting tradition renewal well ethical ramifications in autobiography, this study examines how selfhood is constructed to render varieties autobiographical e...

abraham ungar is professor in the department of mathematicsat north dakota state university.after gaining his b.sc. (1965) and m.sc. (1967) from the hebrew university inpure mathematics and ph.d. (1973) from tel-aviv universityin applied mathematics, he held apostdoctoral position at the university of toronto (1974).ungar moved from toronto to pretoria where he held the position of asenior rese...

Handwritten autobiographies from 180 Catholic nuns, composed when participants were a mean age of 22 years, were scored for emotional content and related to survival during ages 75 to 95. A strong inverse association was found between positive emotional content in these writings and risk of mortality in late life (p < .001). As the quartile ranking of positive emotion in early life increased, t...

84 The Science of Christian Economy S ince we did not desire to narrow our audience to exclude non-specialists in the following matter, the author has chosen to relegate to this appended section the treatment of certain topics relevant to Chapter VI, "The reproduction of man." To indicate the fuller sCIOpe of relevance of the techni­ cal difficulties addressed in this Appendix, we excerpt two p...

Accustomed as many of us have become in the era of clinical bioethics to the idea of a "hospital philosopher", on reflection the historical novelty of the role is astonishing, as are its ambiguities. As a result of considering my own experience I found myself writing this miniature intellectual autobiography. In the course of this essay I raise two specific questions: what can the Western philo...

I grew up in Barrow-in-Furness, a ship-building town on the North West coast of England. At Barrow Grammar School, the subjects I enjoyed most were biology and chemistry. I was also torn between science and rock climbing, and Bristol University allowed me to do both without leaving the city. I enrolled as a Chemistry student but found the undergraduate teaching laboratories very tedious and uni...

Some scholars have criticized Augustine’s Confessions for lacking structure. In this paper scenes from Augustine’s life depicted in Confessions are analyzed allegorically in order to better understand what his intention may have been as an author. Augustine was a talented writer and it is worth considering that he was aware that Confessions may have had less impact had it been written in a more...