among the various interpretations of michelangelo’s moses, freud’s is well-known. the founder of psychoanalysis, freud reviews all the critics and interpretations of this masterpiece and then offers his own: this moses is not about to spring up, as claimed by others, but on the contrary, is sitting down, suppressing his “rage”. in the light of recent works of daniel arasse, art critic (study of...

Two examples of applying physical theories to objects are considered and argued to support different models of theory application and theory evaluation. One of the examples confirms Carl Hempel's model of theory application whereas the other requires a different type of model. Nancy Cartwright's criticism of Hempel's model is considered and argued to misdiagnose the problem with this model. The...