From: L-Soft list server at St. John's University (1.8c) To: Ian Pitchford Subject: File: "SCI-CULT LOG9601" Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 12:24 PM ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 14:26:21 U Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Phil Bereano Subject: SaC I have not been following the dialogue on this list for a couple of weeks given the end of our academic quarter and the holiday break. However, I wanted to contribute a few observations about a discussion which was going on around the beginning of December. This discussion concerned the relationship of science to engineering. As David Noble points out in his first book, America By Design, the understanding of this relationship which is commonly current dates from the end of the nineteenth century: science is pure intellectual speculation which leads to applied science which leads to technology which leads to commercialization. Noble shows how this relationship was put forward by large industrial interests as part of a campaign (including the influencing of engineering education, capturing the engineering societies, etc.) to foster their agenda. If you look at western societies previous to that (and at some non-western societies even past the turn of the century) it is obvious that science and engineering are two rather distinct social activities, with only occasional interactions. In particular, it is worth noting that the two activities grew up among totally different classes--engineering activities were of course working class (like blacksmiths who knew how to anneal iron without any scientific theoretical basis of metal atom lattices), and science was conducted by the clergy and nobility. In other words, until relatively recently in our history, these were parallel tracks with only a small number of connections. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 08:42:01 -0500 Reply-To: ad201@freenet.carleton.ca Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Donald Phillipson Subject: Re: SCIENCE-AS-CULTURE Digest - 20 Dec 1995 to 3 Jan 1996 Citing David Noble (America by Design) Phil Bereano wrote Jan. 3 re links between pure and applied sciences: >commercialization. Noble shows how this relationship was put forward by >large industrial interests as part of a campaign (including the influencing >of engineering education, capturing the engineering societies, etc.) to >foster their agenda. > >If you look at western societies previous to that (and at some non-western >societies even past the turn of the century) it is obvious that science and >engineering are two rather distinct social activities, with only occasional >interactions. The concept of essential difference between scientific knowledge and engineering knowledge, visible in their media of communication, may have been first proposed by Derek Price of Yale in the 1960s, and was considerably developed in the 20 years prior to his death, see his books and the journal Scientometrics. The idea is important in science policy. It now looks as if it was indeed true for about 1850-1950 that pure science stimulated technological applications (cf. chemical engineering, Edison etc.) -- but only contingently so, i.e. there is no intellectual basis to suppose that it will recur in future regularly enough to justify public funding of pure research. My own notion is that this contingency is affected by whether we live in a "knowledge-scarce" or a "knowledge-rich" environment. Price also dealt with this theme, pointing out that the growth of science at the level of 1670-1970 (approx. tenfold every half-century) cannot go on more than one or two generations longer (or else 101 per cent of the world's population would become full-time researchers.) If the growth curve is bound to level off, or at least alter, the political question is just how, and with what social consequences. The difference between Price's approach and Noble's is that Price sought to take as his data only the forms of recorded knowledge -- avoiding speculation (and excluding guesses) about motives, personal or class. -- | Donald Phillipson, 4180 Boundary Road, Carlsbad Springs, | | Ontario, Canada, K0A 1K0, tel. 613 822 0734 | ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 13:20:49 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: "Howard S. Schwartz" Subject: Re: SaC: Science and Engineering At 02:26 PM 1/3/96 U, Philip Bereano wrote: >This discussion concerned the relationship of science to engineering. As >David Noble points out in his first book, America By Design, the >understanding of this relationship which is commonly current dates from the >end of the nineteenth century: science is pure intellectual speculation which >leads to applied science which leads to technology which leads to >commercialization. Noble shows how this relationship was put forward by >large industrial interests as part of a campaign (including the influencing >of engineering education, capturing the engineering societies, etc.) to >foster their agenda. > >If you look at western societies previous to that (and at some non-western >societies even past the turn of the century) it is obvious that science and >engineering are two rather distinct social activities, with only occasional >interactions. In particular, it is worth noting that the two activities grew >up among totally different classes--engineering activities were of course >working class (like blacksmiths who knew how to anneal iron without any >scientific theoretical basis of metal atom lattices), and science was >conducted by the clergy and nobility. In other words, until relatively >recently in our history, these were parallel tracks with only a small number >of connections. > I have no doubt that the marriage of science and engineering is of relatively recent vintage, although I have to confess I find it curious to see this relationship deplored by mavens of the internet. At the same time, one must also note that the conjunction of science and other disciplines is also a recent phenomenon. Medicine is an obvious example. Surgeons, I understand, used to be barbers. And here again I gain comfort from this list. Just this morning I heard that one of the next casualties of the rolling shutdown of the US government will be the Centers for Disease Control's epidemiological tracking. I was getting a little worried about that. Howard Schwartz Schwartz@Oakland,edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 13:57:13 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Ed Morman Subject: SaC: shaving and operating X-To: "Howard S. Schwartz" In-Reply-To: <9601041825.AA06771@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu> On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Howard S. Schwartz wrote: > [snip] Surgeons, I understand, used to be barbers. [snip] Without involving myself in the discussion about David Noble and the relationship between science and technology, I would like to point out how much Howard Schwartz's offhand remark translates into a brief for more serious study of history. This is not meant as an attack on Howard or his position, but I believe that for Howard or anyone else to be taken seriously in making a point based on their understanding of history, they should feel obliged to show a real understanding. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Surgeons didn't "used to be barbers" any more than barbers used to be surgeons. Rather, there were, in some places, at certain times, people who worked as barber-surgeons. In the context of western health care alone, there are probably at least half-dozen different models for the evolution of surgery as a craft and profession, in different countries and regions. Important work has been done on "surgeons of the long robe" (i.e. those with university degrees) and "surgeons of the short robe" (i.e. craftsmen) in renaissance northern Italy. For key studies on the process of professionalization of surgery in eighteenth-century France, and the effect the surgeons had on the transformation of post- Revolutionary medicine (and medical science), see the work of Toby Gelfand. There's more, for those who are interested, on the work and status of English surgeons before the establishment of the Royal College of Surgeons around 1800. I'm not inclined to start an abstract discussion on the relevance of history to science studies, but as a historian I would make the general point that it's necessary to know the cases you're talking about in making a point. Ed Morman, Librarian Institute of the History of Medicine The Johns Hopkins University ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 15:53:08 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: "Howard S. Schwartz" Subject: Re: SaC: shaving and operating X-cc: Ed Morman At 01:57 PM 1/4/96 -0500, Ed Morman wrote: >On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Howard S. Schwartz wrote: > >> [snip] Surgeons, I understand, used to be barbers. [snip] > >Without involving myself in the discussion about David Noble and the >relationship between science and technology, I would like to point out how >much Howard Schwartz's offhand remark translates into a brief for more >serious study of history. This is not meant as an attack on Howard or his >position, but I believe that for Howard or anyone else to be taken >seriously in making a point based on their understanding of history, they >should feel obliged to show a real understanding. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Surgeons didn't "used to be barbers" any more than barbers used to be >surgeons. Rather, there were, in some places, at certain times, people >who worked as barber-surgeons. In the context of western health care >alone, there are probably at least half-dozen different models for the >evolution of surgery as a craft and profession, in different countries and >regions. Important work has been done on "surgeons of the long robe" >(i.e. those with university degrees) and "surgeons of the short robe" >(i.e. craftsmen) in renaissance northern Italy. For key studies on the >process of professionalization of surgery in eighteenth-century France, >and the effect the surgeons had on the transformation of post- >Revolutionary medicine (and medical science), see the work of Toby >Gelfand. There's more, for those who are interested, on the work and >status of English surgeons before the establishment of the Royal College >of Surgeons around 1800. > >I'm not inclined to start an abstract discussion on the relevance of >history to science studies, but as a historian I would make the general >point that it's necessary to know the cases you're talking about in >making a point. > >Ed Morman, Librarian >Institute of the History of Medicine >The Johns Hopkins University > > Ed is quite correct. I have a tendency to get carried away by my hyperbole. Mea culpa for sure. But if I did not manage to manufacture the idea of an increased connection in modern times between science and medicine out of my own abyssal ignorance, the point still stands that, by itself, it is hardly grounds for condemnation. Nor, by analogy, would the similar development of increased connection between science and engineering. Howard Schwartz Schwartz@Oakland.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 16:43:55 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Ed Morman Subject: shaving and operating, medicine and science, craft and learning X-To: "Howard S. Schwartz" In-Reply-To: <9601042103.AA26432@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu> On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Howard S. Schwartz wrote: > Ed is quite correct. I have a tendency to get carried away by my > hyperbole. Mea culpa for sure. Thanks, Howard, for acknowledging my fundamental point. > But if I did not manage to manufacture the idea of an increased > connection in modern times between science and medicine . . . For a comprehensive overview of the historiography of science in medicine, see John Harley Warner's recent article: "The History of Science and the Sciences of Medicine," _Osiris_ 10 (1995): 164-193. I think the way Warner uses his erudition to demonstrate the complexity of the relationship between science and medicine goes a long way to prove my point about the importance of our historical "understandings" being grounded in a real familiarity with at least the secondary literature. Ed Morman, Librarian Institute of the History of Medicine The Johns Hopkins University ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 17:00:59 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: "Howard S. Schwartz" Subject: Re: shaving and operating, medicine and science, craft and learning X-To: Ed Morman At 04:43 PM 1/4/96 -0500, Ed Morman wrote: >On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Howard S. Schwartz wrote: > >> Ed is quite correct. I have a tendency to get carried away by my >> hyperbole. Mea culpa for sure. > >Thanks, Howard, for acknowledging my fundamental point. > >> But if I did not manage to manufacture the idea of an increased >> connection in modern times between science and medicine . . . > >For a comprehensive overview of the historiography of science in >medicine, see John Harley Warner's recent article: "The History of >Science and the Sciences of Medicine," _Osiris_ 10 (1995): 164-193. I >think the way Warner uses his erudition to demonstrate the complexity of >the relationship between science and medicine goes a long way to prove my >point about the importance of our historical "understandings" being >grounded in a real familiarity with at least the secondary literature. > >Ed Morman, Librarian >Institute of the History of Medicine >The Johns Hopkins University > I actually have more sympathy for Ed Morman's point than he may suspect. I'm really a great fan of expertise. Perhaps comments about history should be left to those with a deep grounding in history. And if it follows, by analogy, that comments on science should be left to those with a deep grounding in science, I'll rest a lot easier. Others may feel differently. Howard Schwartz Schwartz@Oakland.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 05:03:07 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young test ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 09:59:09 EST Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Bob Zenhausern Subject: Education and the Hemispheres Revisited X-To: ALTLEARN List , Chatback Discussion Group , virted@sjuvm.stjohns.edu, virtpsy@sjuvm.stjohns.edu, charter@sjuvm.stjohns.edu, CEC Technology and Media List , Learning Styles Theory and Research , esi@sjuvm.stjohns.edu It was not too long ago that the Zeitgeist spoke to how Education was too Left Hemisphere oriented. The concept of hemispheric differences is based on solid evidence, but it also had too much popular appeal. The Zeitgeist shifted and research in this area was considered faddish. I have researched individual differences in Hemisphericity for many years and have developed a very effective procedure to eliminate reading disability based on this research. But that is the past. I would like to make several new points about Education and Hemisphericity. The Graphical User Interface has become the standard of Education and Business. The distinctions between MAC and IBM have become blurred with the growth of Windows. Children are taught on a platform where the correct responses are on a menu or icon. The workplace uses the same concept so the teaching is relevant. The problem, however, arises when the GUI and use of the Mouse become synonymous. The Mouse allows a flexibilty of movement that is harder to manage with keystrokes, especially in the graphic areas. In some instances the mouse is less efficient than keystrokes. To exi t a file: move the cursor to the File selection, click, drag to Exit and click. The same procedure can by done by the keystrokes: Alt-FX. How many readers use keystrokes and dislike the mouse? How many teachers know of kids who are taught the key strokes? Quite apart from the speed and efficiency of key stroke or Digital User Interface, there are very practical implications. 1) You cannot deny individual differences in learning style. Some children will benefit from a DUI more than a GUI and vice versa. The students should at least know that there is an alternative to the Mouse. 2) A DUI will solve many of the problems associated with the Blind and Mobility impaired individuals and may be beneficial to those suffering from RSI. Is Education becoming too Right Hemisphere-oriented? The second point is that the ability to Multitask is a skill that will increase in importance as we move into the 21st Century. Rita and Ken Dunn have developed a Learning Style model which provides a profile of preferences in 21 different areas. One of these areas includes the need for variety or shifting back and forth among tasks. Are you one who reads one book at a time to completion or are you working on several books at the same time (for pleasure)? Some children with ADD cannot stick to a task but flit...and are penalized for it. When I am on GrassRoots MOO, I can be having different conversations with 4 or 5 people on various channels and when there is a lull in the conversation I can read my mail or work on an article and catch up on the conversations when I get back. Multitasking is the only way to maximize ones potential and it is a skill we should be emphasizing in Education. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 08:50:47 -1000 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Mark Burch Subject: Re: Education and the Hemispheres Revisited In-Reply-To: <96Jan7.061449hst.11341(5)@relay1.Hawaii.Edu> Has anyone written about IBM users and MAC users in terms of left-hemisphere and right-hemisphere preference? Just curious. It seems an obvious but perhaps too glib distinction. Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am rhythm. I am the juice of all your religions. I am the slippery foundation of all your scientific laws. I am the pulsation which drives the drumwork of creation. I am eternally self-renewing and you are free to dance in and out of my grasp."--Principia Rhythmystica _____________________________________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 07:44:27 +0100 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Baudouin Jurdant Subject: Re: Education and the Hemispheres Revisited > It was not too long ago that the Zeitgeist spoke to how Education was >too Left Hemisphere oriented. The concept of hemispheric differences >is based on solid evidence, but it also had too much popular appeal. The >Zeitgeist shifted and research in this area was considered faddish. I have >researched individual differences in Hemisphericity for many years and >have developed a very effective procedure to eliminate reading disability >based on this research. Having worked for quite a long time on the relationship between the alphabet and scientific knowledge (in psycho- and socio-cognitive -cultural- terms) I would be quite interested by Bob Zenhausern's work which he mentions above. Would it be possible to have more precise references on "individual differences in hemisphericity" and the procedures he has developed to "eliminate reading disability" ? Yours B. Jurdant Baudouin Jurdant, (Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche sur la Science de l'Universite Louis Pasteur) GERSULP, 7, rue de l'Universite, 67000 Strasbourg Tel : (int) (33) 88 52 80 62 ; Fax : (int) (33) 88 52 80 57 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:08:11 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: ANTOINE GOULEM Subject: us army research history Hi, my name is Antoine Goulem. I wonder if anyone on the list has any information on the following topic. It has come to my attention that a great number of the early papers published in the Journal of Symbolic logic were written under grants from the U.S. army, the naval department of ordnance, and other funding organization. I am wondering if anything has been published on the history of the U.S armed services involvment in scientific research. I imagine that work on the Manhattanproject and so on is out there. I'm a philosophy student and so I'm not at all familiar with the literature in this area. Any help in thismatter will be of great value to me, Thanks in advance Antoine Goulem goua@alcor.concordia.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 15:57:48 -0100 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Danilo Curci Subject: New Renaissance now, (and) or the Golden Age 1880-1933 ? X-To: ARCO@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU X-cc: CHARTER@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU It's a common idea, since at least the last 20 years, thar we are living The New Renaissance... I've a different opinion, but I'd like also to work on it, if someone can help me. My opinion is that a very interesting period, for the World, had been that from about 1880 untill 1929-1933: I think that there are at least the springs of our Renaissance, in all fields of human life: arts, literature, science, psychology, politics, social questions, techniques..., or, better, that THIS period was a true Renaissance Period; people lived in that "spirit", also beyond the big break of the First World War. If you don't like to name it that way, I suggest "Golden Age" (people in the States and in South Africa were also looking for Gold...! Other people were looking for new frontiers or thinking to go back and build a new land). What I'd like to do is a big data-base about that period: it's a very enormous job, also if is there much literature. This is the firsy reason for which I call for help. The second one is that I don't know how to build the best data base on Internet for this purpose. I think I'll start to collect in one or more web pages some hyper-textes , with link to what yet does exist (eg, about Wittgengstein, Freud, Nietzsche, but also Mach, Pascoli, Einstein, Popper....Mahler and so on). Is anyone interested on it? Danilo, the_owl ------------------------------------------------------------------ 20129 MILANO (ITALY) - Via Plinio, 74 - 039-(0)2-2360410 - e-mail: quadrant@iol.it ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Arco / Art & Literature, Psychology and Communication" (mailing-list) URLs: ARCO Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/2459/ARCO.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ 'Ambrosius_the_owl' on Grassroots MOO at rdz.stjohns.edu:8888 (telnet) ------------------------------------------------------------------ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 01:29:58 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Lists of lists I am on a forum of listowners, and there are occasional strings of general interest. A few days ago there was one about how to find out about lists in a given area. I reproduce the main bits below. I have built up information in areas in and around science studies, hpsst, psychoanalysis, philosophy, cultural studies, etc. It may be worth asking me. First query: By the way: When I do a LISTS GLOBAL I get a nearly comprehensive list of groups that use LISTSERV, but there's a whole world of lists out there that are not mentioned, such as the majordomo-managed ones. Do you know of some way I could review some of them too? I've been looking for groups on the subjects of DBase programming, neonatology, hydrographic surveying, and others. (Largely requests from coworkers, I promise I am not one of those "renaissance man" spammer/vacuumer dolts.) First response: Yes, e-mail listserv@VM1.NODAK.EDU with text: GET LISTSOF LISTS which contains some e-mailable methods of doing searching that go beyond LISTSERV (tm) per se (though using other LISTSERV techniques i.e., DATABASE SEARCH). Of course if you have access to the WEB or GOPHER, you might prefer those methods. Next reply: > are not mentioned, such as the majordomo-managed ones. Do you know of some > way I could review some of them too? I've been looking for groups on the I try to keep the latest copy of the gigantic list of lists that's posted in 20+ parts on usenet from time to time in ftp space: ftp.msstate.edu/docs/words-l/Net-Stuff/lots.of.lists Also accessible via: http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/Words-L/files.html Another reply: There's a pretty good list of lists on the web. Try: http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml/bysubj.html And finally: The fastest and most inclusive source of information about lists (listserv, listproc, majordomo, etc.) is the relatively new search engine Liszt, at http://www.liszt.com/ . Its main problem is that it's not always sufficiently selective: it will often include very small local lists, class lists, etc. But it's astonishingly fast and has a huge database. Bob adds: My experience is that our own lists are rather more reliable and that although Liszt claims to list and index over 23,000 lists from 550+ sites, they are - to put it mildly - erratic. Last month they had several on psychoanalysis, not including the one I moderate. Last week they had only that one. Today they have none (I have complained). They do list this forum, however Still, they are always worth a try, especially in fields where one knows nothing. Today I tried 'cultural studies' and got: Your search on (cultural studies) produced 6 matches: cultstud-l The list associated with Communication 6345, "Contemporary Cultural Studies mail the command information cultstud-l to listserv@nosferatu.cas.usf.edu intl-culture Int'l Studies: Cultural Studies group mail the command info intl-culture to majordomo@acpub.duke.edu LLCS -Language, Literacy, & Cultural Studies Program - UNM, COE mail the command info LLCS to LISTSERV@UNMVMA.UNM.EDU popstud-l This list is meant to facilitate further discussion of cultural studies issues brought up in LIT 3301 mail the command information popstud-l to listserv@nosferatu.cas.usf.edu XS2CS-L Access to Cultural Studies List mail the command info XS2CS-L to LISTSERV@HEARN.NIC.SURFNET.NL XS2CS-N Access to Cultural Studies newsletter mail the command info XS2CS-N to LISTSERV@HEARN.NIC.SURFNET.NL Bob Young __________________________________________ | Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk | 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, England | tel. +44 171 607 8306 fax. +44 171 609 4837 | Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, | Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield | Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 09:40:15 +0100 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Arie Dirkzwager Subject: Re: New Renaissance now, (and) or the Golden Age 1880-1933 ? At 15:57 12-01-96 -0100, Danilo Curci wrote: >It's a common idea, since at least the last 20 years, thar we are living The >New Renaissance... > >I've a different opinion, but I'd like also to work on it, if someone can >help me. > >My opinion is that a very interesting period, for the World, had been that >from about 1880 untill 1929-1933: I think that there are at least the >springs of our Renaissance, in all fields of human life: arts, literature, >science, psychology, politics, social questions, techniques..., or, better, >that THIS period was a true Renaissance Period; ------This could be a fascinating (but hughe) study. May I point to an important philosophical "renaissance" of original christian thought developed by Vollenhoven and Dooyeweerd in the 30ies at the Free University in Amsterdam. They stripped philosophy of old pagan misconceptions that invaded christianity (immortal soul, God as being part of the kosmos, dualism and monism, subjectivism and objectivism, rationalism and irrationalism) and they developed a "reformed" view on the universe and all it's systemic and modal diversity in a very systematic way. See Dooyeweerd's "A new Critique of Theoretical Thought" (Three volumes, about 500 pages each). I recognised many of their thoughts in the recent report of the Angelican Church called "The mystery of salvation", but even to non-believers their philosophy opens many enlightening perspectives, a.o. on the philosophy of science, logic, epistemology and ontology. I'd be happy to expand on this either on this list or by personal E-mail. Arie PS. >Wittgengstein, Freud, Nietzsche, but also Mach, Pascoli, Einstein, Popper....Mahler and so on -----Apart from Vollenhoven and Dooyeweerd I certainly would add Kierkegaard to this list. Prof.Dr.A.Dirkzwager, Educational Instrumentation Technology, Computers in Education. Huizerweg 62, 1402 AE Bussum, The Netherlands. voice: x31-35-6933258 FAX: x31-35-6930762 E-mail: aried@xs4all.nl {========================================================================} {Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers} {who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the information age in which we } {live. (Quoted from: Prof. Peter Cochrane) } {========================================================================} {From Steve Carlson's signature: --=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=" The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is it's inefficiency." - Eugene McCarthy --=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 10:30:52 -0500 Reply-To: ad201@freenet.carleton.ca Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Donald Phillipson Subject: New Renaissance X-cc: quadrant@iol.it Danilo Curci wrote suggesting a computer-based hypertext or database for discoveries 1880-1930 as a "New Renaissance" that changed contemporary consciousness. While he is right that this is both important and not new, it is hard to see what a database can do that is not already well recorded in "The Timetables of History" and similar sources, abundant as he noted. To understand the changes of 1880-1930, perhaps we need better ideas rather than more data, or even more conveniently cross-referred data. This is not meant to pour cold water on Curci's idea, but to encourage him to develop either ideas or data. -- | Donald Phillipson, 4180 Boundary Road, Carlsbad Springs, | | Ontario, Canada, K0A 1K0, tel. 613 822 0734 | ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:33:03 -0100 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Danilo Curci Subject: Re: New Renaissance now, (and) or the Golden Age 1880-1933 ? At 09.40 13/01/96 +0100, you wrote: >------This could be a fascinating (but hughe) study. May I point to an >important philosophical "renaissance" of original christian thought >developed by Vollenhoven and Dooyeweerd in the 30ies at the Free University >in Amsterdam. They stripped philosophy of old pagan misconceptions that >invaded christianity (immortal soul, God as being part of the kosmos, >dualism and monism, subjectivism and objectivism, rationalism and >irrationalism) and they developed a "reformed" view on the universe and all >it's systemic and modal diversity in a very systematic way. See Dooyeweerd's >"A new Critique of Theoretical Thought" (Three volumes, about 500 pages >each). I recognised many of their thoughts in the recent report of the >Angelican Church called "The mystery of salvation", but even to >non-believers their philosophy opens many enlightening perspectives, a.o. on >the philosophy of science, logic, epistemology and ontology. I'd be happy to >expand on this either on this list or by personal E-mail. > >Arie > >PS. >Wittgengstein, Freud, Nietzsche, but also Mach, Pascoli, Einstein, >Popper....Mahler and so on > >-----Apart from Vollenhoven and Dooyeweerd I certainly would add Kierkegaard >to this list. > > >Prof.Dr.A.Dirkzwager, >Educational Instrumentation Technology, >Computers in Education. >Huizerweg 62, >1402 AE Bussum, >The Netherlands. >voice: x31-35-6933258 >FAX: x31-35-6930762 >E-mail: aried@xs4all.nl >{========================================================================} >{Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers} >{who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the information age in which we } >{live. (Quoted from: Prof. Peter Cochrane) } >{========================================================================} >{From Steve Carlson's signature: >--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=" >The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is it's inefficiency." > - Eugene McCarthy >--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+--=--+ > I completely agree with you: the list is not complete!!! I know that it's a question of ideas, not just to put links or orders in well known things. (Am I answering to Dr. Donald Phillipson ?) My first purpose is just to give a look to what exists on Internet, and is readable by most of people. I found more difficult to find good pages about writers: just some abstracts... but Internet is big, and link by link I hope to get (or to write, why not?) something! Thank you: if you like, I'd be glad to exchange mail with you, on the list is other people aren't stuffed..., or directly. The way is long... most was yet writen or said, but I think a problem is also that of a good selection. A thing about which I'm sure, is that I cannot do a serious work in that direction alone!!! If you want to give a look to my uncertain beguinnings the URL is: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/2459/gold.html Danilo Curci ------------------------------------------------------------------ 20129 MILANO (ITALY) - Via Plinio, 74 - 039-(0)2-2360410 - e-mail: quadrant@iol.it ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Arco / Art & Literature, Psychology and Communication" (mailing-list) URLs: ARCO Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/2459/ARCO.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ 'Ambrosius_the_owl' on Grassroots MOO at rdz.stjohns.edu:8888 (telnet) ------------------------------------------------------------------ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 01:13:37 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Footnote re: list of lists A useful comment on my rearlier posting on lists of lists: Someone wrote >Hi, I'd like to get a list of all Internet listservers. Can you help me? >Thanks! Patty Neill Clued-up person replied: There is little reason to get the megabytes of lists-of-lists. You, and your fellow users of your network, will be better off learning how to search these databases either interactively say via the Web, or in the batch i.e., e-mail to certains LISTSERVs. I heartily recommend that you learn the latter. The tutorial can be had by e-mailing listserv@VM1.NODAK.EDU with the one-line text: get listsof lists Compiled by Marty Hoag. __________________________________________ | Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk | 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, England | tel. +44 171 607 8306 fax. +44 171 609 4837 | Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, | Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield | Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:05:22 +0100 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Frank Biesboer Subject: Re: us army research history Dear Antoine You can find some good overview reports at OTA, especially: Building Future Security, Strategies for Restructurign the Defense Technology and Industrial Base,1992 The Defense Technology Base: Introduction and Overview, 1988 Ota: http://www.ota.gov/ Succes, Frank Biesboer editor magazin Zeno, on science, technology and society Frank Biesboer chief-editor of Zeno Zeno is a two-monthly magazin on Science, Technology and Society Address: Zeno Oude Gracht 42 3511 AR Utrecht the Netherlands fax: 31-30-2343986 email: frankbie@xs4all.nl ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:55:59 -0500 Reply-To: ad201@freenet.carleton.ca Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Donald Phillipson Subject: Delft TU museum X-To: stscan-l@odie.ccs.yorku.ca hist-sci@cshl.org, sci-tech-studies@kasey.umkc.edu, htech-l@SIVM.BITNET, pol-sci-tech@igc.apc.org, AAASEST@GWUVM.BITNET Newsgroups: soc.history.science,soc.history.moderated Reply-To: ad201@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Does anyone know the museum at the Delft Technical University, especially the upstairs computer and (optical) perception exhibits? I visited in Oct. 1995 and met the curator (whose name I cannot now find. He's not a professional museologist but an elec. eng. faculty member, probably near retirement.) A chap in Ireland with a professional and commercial interest in putting technical history onto CD-ROM would like an independent opinion of these exhibits: >We have an interactive video product which looks at human-computer >interaction, and various problems of IT uptake, and perhaps this >module would slot into it. Reply by email please. -- | Donald Phillipson, 4180 Boundary Road, Carlsbad Springs, | | Ontario, Canada, K0A 1K0, tel. 613 822 0734 | ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:56:35 +0000 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Chris Stokes Subject: Imagining/Imaging the Future X-To: list futures , sci-tech-studies@cent1.lancs.ac.uk, list pol-sci-tech X-cc: ispo@www.ispo.cec.be, holder@apt.org Can anyone help in the following search for work, completed or in progess, on visions of the future involving new forms of public participation (focus groups, citizen panels, etc.)? There are organizations in both the private and public sectors that think about the medium- and long-term future more or less explicity. Some corporations do it by creating scenarios, with more or less imagination/consideration of political and cultural change. Recently, the Office of Science and Technology (in the U.K.) completed phase 1 of its Technology Foresight exercise. It assembled groups of experts who worked with the Delphi technique to 'pick winners', industries that are likely to improve the competitiveness of U.K. business in the future. But the composition of the groups that carry out these exercises, as well as the range of issues they consider relevant, are often restricted. Hence their assumptions about what sorts of change are at issue or of importance, and their implicit commitments to particular institutions and knowledge-forms, usually go unexamined. Corporations tend to involve senior executives; public-sector organizations usually stick to 'experts' of one kind or another. Users and others in the 'impact' constituencies, who often have much bleaker visions, are not heard. Has any work been done on broadening the representation on groups like these? What sorts of new institutional and policy processes for their involvement have been investigated? We are especially interested in the fields of energy and information technology/society. Chris -- |Chris Stokes C.Stokes@lancaster.ac.uk |Centre for Science Studies and Science Policy Tel. (01524) 65201 ext. 3576 |Lonsdale College Fax (01524) 846339 |Lancaster University c.stokes@lancaster.ac.uk |Lancaster LA1 4YN ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 11:06:26 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Val Dusek Subject: SaC Re: military "& logic &research Antoine Goulem writes: >I wonder if anyone on the list has any information on the following >topic. It has come to my attention that a great number of the early >papers published in the Journal of Symbolic logic were written under >grants from the U.S. army, the naval department of ordnance, and other >funding organization. I am wondering if anything has been published on >the history of the U.S armed services involvment in scientific research. The book Rads, by Tom Bates, Harper Collins Publ., 1992, about the bombing of the U. of Wisconsin Army Math Research Center in 1970 has material on the miliary funding of this center run by the leading logician Barkley Rosser. Of course Wisconsin was a center of recursive function theory ("Kleeneliness is next to Goedeliness") with Kleene, Rosser, et al there. The center supposedly aided in the tracking down and murder of Che Guevara. Rosser sneered at "the masses" and militantly defended the army funding of the center. An old book on miliatry funding of science during the 1960s is In the Name of Science, by Neiberg or Nieberg, which documents the extent to which scientific research is funded by the military. Paul Edwards has a new book out by MIT Press which discusses the extent to which military funding of the computer and the net had infiltrated the structure of our whole thinking and culture as mediated by the computer. John Papademus in Science and Nature (now defunct) has an article on the extent of miliary funding of science. In physics, of course, the vast majority of research was militarily funded. I've seen estimates that 3/4 of the physicists in the world were ( at least in the 1950s through 1980s) working on military funded projects. C. Wright Mills notes this in passing in one of his bks (Power Elite or White Collar) in the 1950s. A book I found fascinating is Steve Heims' John von Neuman and Norbert Weiner: From Mathematics to the Technology of Life and Death, MIT Press, which traces von Neuman and Wiener from pure math, logic, and quantum mechanics, into computers and artifical intelligence to the arms race, ICBMs and H bomb. Heims suggests that von Neumann's top-down, authoritarian and formalist style, in math as well as in computer architecture (the standard top-down von Neumann model of PCs) through social relations, made him particularly appropriate for his involvment in secret military research and the atomic bomb research and ICBM policy, where he enjoyed the associiation with men in uniforms, while Wiener's anarchistic temperament, shown in his work on Browmian movement, cybernetics, decentralized social theory and medical prostheses, led Wiener to dissaociate himself from military research. Of course, Wiener, (or Feynmann, whose father manufactured uniforms and taught him to see through the uniform to the person underneath) were supergeniuses who were supported even when they refused miliary research grants, but ordinary mortal physicists could not survive professionally without the miliary grants. Val Dusek ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 11:36:04 EST Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: "Dr. Patrick W. Hamlett, Assistant Head, MDS" Subject: (Fwd) OTA and ITA X-To: HOPOS-L@UKCC.uky.edu, htech-l@sivm.bitnet, PCST-L@cornell.edu, SCI-TECH-STUDIES@kasey.umkc.EDU, STEPS@listserv.ncsu.edu FYI - Hamlett ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: 17 Jan 1996 11:28:35 From: vcoates@tmn.com Subject: OTA and ITA To: Recipients of conference From: Vary Coates Many Fastnet subscribers were familiar with the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and indeed tried to help save it before Congress killed it at the end of FY94. (For any who don't know that sad story, I will be glad to answer individual inquiries.) A group of ex-OTA analysts and research managers banded together to try to maintain some of the best parts of OTA's institutional memory and culture, while trying out some new departures, in the private sector--in the hope that the political climate may change again and recognition be renewed of the need for dispassionate S&T analysis for legislators. It has been a very discouraging struggle so far, but things may be looking up. The new Institute for Technology Assessment has been offered office space/services/connections by another Washington non-profit (Medical Technologies and Practices Patterns Institute), which we will officially occupy on Jan.17. Also, we are getting a small planning grant from the Garfield Foundation in Philadelphia, which will allow us to continue to develop project proposals, and look for sources of core funding and project funding. We will hold an open forum or discussion meeting at the AAAS annual meeting in February. Proposals are being developed in the areas of: environment and industry best practices; digital money and electronic commerce; issues arising from human genome research. We anticipate carrying out "analytical interactive assessments" with participation and sponsorship by a wide range of stakeholders and public interest advocates, on topics of interest to policy makers and concerned public at state, federal, and transnational levels. We will also be looking for affiliation with universities or university STS programs.We invite comments, advice, questions, etc. Our new office number will be (202) 333 8887; we aren't yet set up for email there, but we can receive and redistribute it to other steering committee members, at vcoates@tmn.com or tlaporte@tmn.com. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 16:26:44 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Electronic journals X-cc: psa-public-sphere@sheffield.ac.uk The journals which I edit, _Science as Culture_ and _Free Associations_, will soon have web sites and will move toward on-line discussion of submissions and perhaps full on-line editions in addition to the printed ones. I will soon be asking for contributions. In the light of these imminent developments (and perhaps for other reasons) subscribers may be interested in the following: Publishers of academic journals have promised hundreds of full-text titles online during 1996, representing an unprecedented growth in electronic journals publishing. But let's not overlook the developments and very significant gains that have already influenced online journals. These achievements are reviewed in a new survey paper produced by the Open Journal project in the UK: A survey of STM online journals 1990-95: the calm before the storm http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/survey/survey.html The survey examines in detail the publishing features of over 80 online journals all providing full-text, peer-reviewed papers, and offers the following insights: - What are the most innovative and useful features in the best online journals, how widely are these features being adopted, and which are the best examples - Which formats are popular and why - What motivates new journals in different subject disciplines - What funding mechanisms are being adopted, and why are some non-commercial journals facing a difficult future - Where can new online journals be discovered reliably - What are the latest factors influencing the radically different online journal of the future Every journal covered in the survey is linked, over 100 links in total including links to referenced works. What will the online journal look like in year 2000? Draw your own conclusions, and let us know. __________________________________________ | Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk | 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, England | tel. +44 171 607 8306 fax. +44 171 609 4837 | Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, | Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield | Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 20:14:39 +0100 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Frank Biesboer Subject: Re: Imagining/Imaging the Future Dear Chris, You should contact Wiebe Bijker, professor at the Maastricht University, tel 31-43-3883319. He participated in an international study on handling technological controversies, including participation-models. I presume you are aware of the work done in Denmark by the Teknologinaevnet. Contact Lars Kluver, 45-33-320503. Greetings Frank Biesboer chief-editor of Zeno Zeno is a two-monthly magazin on Science, Technology and Society Address: Zeno Oude Gracht 42 3511 AR Utrecht the Netherlands fax: 31-30-2343986 email: frankbie@xs4all.nl Frank Biesboer chief-editor of Zeno Zeno is a two-monthly magazin on Science, Technology and Society Address: Zeno Oude Gracht 42 3511 AR Utrecht the Netherlands fax: 31-30-2343986 email: frankbie@xs4all.nl ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 09:19:44 -0700 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Susan Crites/Caroline Hedge Subject: Laugh Of The Day - Sun, Jan 21 1996 I thought you all might enjoy something light and humorous.... ****************************************************************************** Be sure to visit LaughWEB (http://www.misty.com/laughweb/) ****************************************************************************** *File Description: You Might Be A Physics Major If...* You might be a physics major if... ---------------------------------- Created by Jason Lisle Due to the enormous workload involved in physics classes combined with stress and lack of sleep, physics students often forget (either by accident, defense mechanism, or intentionally) what their major really is. Thus, as a physics major, I took it upon myself to create a small list of indicators to help us all remember what we really are. YOU MIGHT BE A PHYSICS MAJOR... if you have no life - and you can PROVE it mathematically. if you enjoy pain. if you know vector calculus but you can't remember how to do long division. if you chuckle whenever anyone says "centrifugal force." if you've actually used every single function on your graphing calculator. if when you look in a mirror, you see a physics major. if it is sunny and 70 degrees outside, and you are working on a computer. if you frequently whistle the theme song to "MacGyver." if you always do homework on Friday nights. if you know how to integrate a chicken and can take the derivative of water. if you think in "math." if you've calculated that the World Series actually diverges. if you hesitate to look at something because you don't want to break down its wave function. if you have a pet named after a scientist. if you laugh at jokes about mathematicians. if the Humane society has you arrested because you actually performed the Schrodinger's Cat experiment. if you can translate English into Binary. if you can't remember what's behind the door in the science building which says "Exit." if you have to bring a jacket with you, in the middle of summer, because there's a wind-chill factor in the lab. If you are completely addicted to caffeine. if you avoid doing anything because you don't want to contribute to the eventual heat-death of the universe. if you consider ANY non-science course "easy." if when your professor asks you where your homework is, you claim to have accidentally determined its momentum so precisely, that according to Heisenberg it could be anywhere in the universe. if the "fun" center of your brain has deteriorated from lack of use. if you'll assume that a "horse" is a "sphere" in order to make the math easier. if you understood more than five of these indicators. if you make a hard copy of this list, and post it on your door. If these indicators apply to you, there is good reason to suspect that you might be classified as a physics major. I hope this clears up any confusion. ****************************************************************************** LAUGH OF THE DAY - A service of LaughWEB (http://www.misty.com/laughweb/). 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Please read our disclaimer: http://www.misty.com/laughweb/laughweb.disclaimer.txt ****************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 07:55:13 -0700 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Lisa Rogers Subject: [PEN-L:2517] Economics of Science Conference Call for Papers -Forwarded Just thought this might be of interest to some here. Lisa Forwarded Mail received from: Lisa Rogers Received: from (server@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by anthrax.ecst.csuchico.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA03994; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 14:07:15 -0800 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 14:07:15 -0800 Message-Id: <199601222203.OAA03916@anthrax.ecst.csuchico.edu> Errors-To: mperelman@facultypo.csuchico.edu Reply-To: pen-l@anthrax.ecst.csuchico.edu Originator: pen-l@anthrax.ecst.csuchico.edu Sender: pen-l@anthrax.ecst.csuchico.edu Precedence: bulk From: "Sylvia A. Phillips" To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [PEN-L:2517] Economics of Science Conference Call for Papers X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Progressive Economics Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 The Need for a New Economics of Science Conference Announcement and Call for Papers University of Notre Dame March 13-16, 1997 Sponsored by: John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values and Office of Graduate Research Many recent works in science studies have adopted economic metaphors for understanding science. Inspired by trends toward the actual practice and culture of science, many sociologists of scientific knowledge have come up with stories about interests, action, and exchange that look like the product of economic analysis. However, these metaphors are generally not fully elaborated. Motivated by movements toward economic perspectives on traditionally non-economic issues, many economists have started applying the tools of economic analysis to the behavior of scientists. However, these studies are largely silent about the influence of these analyses on the content of science. Also many philosophers of science have argued that scientific knowledge is constructed out of an economic process. However, these explanations typically sidestep problems associated with welfare economics and the assumption of instrumental rationality in economics. Concomitantly, historians have noted a recent shift in social support for scientific research and science policy experts have analyzed issues such as the recent changes in financial support of science. The different perspectives on economics of science can be organized in terms of old and new economics of science. Old economics of science consists of an argument that science is a market, a unity-of science approach, and a clear definition of the individual rational actor in scientific research. New economics of science consists of a contextual approach to science, an argument that science cannot be commodified, a disunity-of science approach, and a questioning of the units of organization in science. The purpose of this conference is to bring together science studies scholars, economists, philosophers of science, historians, science policy experts, and scientists in order to evaluate and clarify the increasing gulf between old and new economics of science, and the economics of science and economics of scientific knowledge. The conference will start a constructive dialogue about the promises and problems of alternative economic theories of the behavior of scientists and comparisons of science to a market. Particular topics that will be covered are: the intellectual history of theories of an economics of science, evolving formats of university/government and university/industry relations, labor economics perspectives on scientific careers, the economics of the dissemination and validation of findings, the conception that science is a public good, the economics of fraud in science, the causes and consequences of the division of labor in science, and the economics of intellectual property rights. We encourage you to forward this announcement to other listservs. For further information and paper proposals, please see http://www.nd.edu:80/~esent/conference or contact either: Philip Mirowski (mirowski.1@nd.edu) or Esther-Mirjam Sent (sent.2@nd.edu) Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame, IN 46556, U.S.A. Sylvia A. Phillips PH: 219-631-8294 416 Decio Hall FAX: 219-631-8209 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556-5644 Assistant to: Dr. Maureen Hallinan Dr. Philip Mirowski White Chair of Sociology & Koch Chair of Economics President of the & the History of Science American Sociological Association ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 20:48:54 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Science Ethics For information on science ethics, go to: http://www.chem.vt.edu/ethics/ethics.html __________________________________________ | Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk | 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, England | tel. +44 171 607 8306 fax. +44 171 609 4837 | Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, | Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield | Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus