Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after his death in 1865 became the object of intense speculation when rumours arose about sex. This cultural history of Barry's
What holds together various fields that are supposed to consititute general intellectual discipline people now call cognitive science? In this book, Erneling and Johnson identify two problems with defining discipline. First, some
To be a 'commonsense realist' is to hold that perceptual experience is (in general) an immediate awareness of mind independent objects, and a source of direct knowledge of what such like. Over the past few centuries this view has faced