Bacteriophages are viruses that attack bacteria. Phage therapy, a method using phages for the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases was introduced by Felix D Herelle, who co discovered phages in 1920. However , with the arrival of the the antibiotic era in the 1940 s it got suppressed, but the ongoing evolution of bacterial multidrug resistance, the potential of phage therapy is again bein...

What brings together Henri Bergson's Matter and Memory and JeanPaul Sartre's Imagination and The Psychology of Imagination is the question of the ontology of the image. Bergson attempts to use the image to bridge the gap between mind and matter by refusing to distinguish clearly between what he calls “matter-images,” “perception-images,” and “memory-images.” By defining both consciousness and t...

Recent events highlight the importance of examining the impact of economic downturns on population health. The Great Depression of the 1930s was the most important economic downturn in the U.S. in the twentieth century. We used historical life expectancy and mortality data to examine associations of economic growth with population health for the period 1920-1940. We conducted descriptive analys...

Este artículo parte de un poema manuscrito atribuido póstumamente a Jorge Luis Borges, titulado “Aquí. Hoy” y editado por el crítico colombiano Abad Faciolince. Sin entrar en problema la autenticidad este poema, lo que interesa es su argumento metafísico conexión con se caracteriza aquí como una “hermenéutica del olvido”, convocando Paul Ricœur, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Hei...

Sartre's concept of ‘non-thetic awareness’ must be understood as equivalent to the concept of ‘nonconceptual content’ currently discussed in anglophone epistemology and philosophy of mind, since it could not otherwise play the role in the structure of ‘bad faith’, or self-deception, that Sartre ascribes to it. This understanding of the term makes sense of some otherwise puzzling features of Sar...