The book is, however, far more than a psychological study of the tuberculous. It is a meticulously conceived work about tuberculosis in France, with intriguing sidelights on the differing experiences of other European countries. Whereas in Spain and Italy, and elsewhere in Southern Europe, the disease was considered contagious and its victims treated as lepers, ideas were more ambiguous in Fran...

Seit 1975 fördert die ›Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie‹ mit jährlich drei Heften den professionellen Gedankenaustausch aller am philosophischen Denken Interessierten. Inhaltlich ist offen alle Richtungen und Meinungen der Philosophie in ganzen historischen, geographischen systematischen Breite. Diese Offenheit entspricht dem Auftrag, sich durch ihren Namen verpflichtet weiß. Respekt vor ...

NICHOLAS RUSSELL, Like engend'ring like: heredity and animal breeding in early modern England, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. ix, 271, £27.50. Productivity is a difficult thing to evaluate in any walk of life or national context, but there is nevertheless some kind ofagreed consensus among historians that the agrarian revolution in the British Isles turned upon a dramatic increase i...

The Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft has kindly offered to publish a collection of my essays on the philosophy of mathematics, which have appeared in various journals. I accept this offer gladly, in particular since several of these essays are not easily accessible. The present volume can also serve as a temporary substitute for a comprehensive treatment of the philosophy of mathematics. This...