Robert Greville on Sins,Privations, and Dialetheism

In the history of Western philosophy, dialetheism – the view that some sentences are both true and false – has been unpopular. This paper recovers a previously overlooked episode in the history of dialetheism. Specifically, it reconstructs a section of Robert Greville's The Nature of Truth (1640) in order to show that he was a dialetheist. Greville's consideration of the view that evil is a privation led him to endorse the claim that sinful acts are contradictory; they are the subjects of both being and non-being. The paper also explores responses to Greville from John Wallis and Nathaniel Culverwell.     

Robert Merrihew Adams,Leibniz: Determinist,Theist, Idealist

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Embodied Imagination: Robert Bosnak,at 57

Robert Bosnak is a Dutch Jungian psychoanalyst and cofounder of http://www.cyberdreamwork.com, the first global interactive dream site using real-time voice and video. He is past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams and author of A Little Course in Dreams, Christopher's Dreams: Dreaming and Living with AIDS, Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming, and his new book Embodied Imagination: In Medicine, Art, and Travel. In this interview Robert Bosnak shares his perspectives and experiences as a Jungian analyst and in his studies of healing, shamanism, dreams, and alchemy. We also discuss his unique embodied approach to dream work.     

Robert Yerkes' multiple-choice apparatus, 1913-1939

Robert Yerkes developed a multiple-choice method to study ideational behavior in animals and humans using specially designed multiple-choice apparatuses. One example ofYerkes' apparatus, used for testing human subjects, now resides in the Historical Scientific Instruments Collection at the Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University. Yerkes introduced the apparatus in 1913 to show that the multiple-choice method was an effective measure of ideational behavior in normal and abnormal people. An analysis of the machine's construction and history brings to light Yerkes' desire for methodological rigor in experimental design. Yerkes' apparatus became commercially available in 1923 even though other psychological laboratories had been making their own versions of it since 1919. Sixteen years later, Yerkes' apparatus was still on the market despite an apparent lack of demand for it.