CONCEPTIONS ET STRATEGIES D'ADAPTATION DES ADOLESCENTS FACE A LA DEPRESSION*

The purpose of the study is to investigate how adolescents perceive and face depression. Two questionnaires, the Beliefs about Behaviour (BAB; Rippere 1977a) and the Coping Strategies Scales (COSTS; Beckham and Adams 1984), were given to 221 boys and 65 girls, with an age ranging from 11 to 18 years and from two different schools (Collège St-Alexandre and High School Erablière, both in Gatineau, Québec). Adolescents have a well-defined picture of depression. They face depression with strategies as given in COSTS and the strategies are more and more homogeneous as a function of increasing age.     

Temporal Fictionalism for a Timeless World

Current debate in the metaphysics of time ordinarily assumes that we should be realists about time. Recently, however, a number of physicists and philosophers of physics have proposed that time will play no role in a completed theory of quantum gravity. This paper defends fictionalism about temporal thought, on the supposition that our world is timeless. We argue that, in the face of timeless physical theories, realism about temporal thought is unsustainable: some kind of anti-realism must be adopted. We go on to provide an argument against eliminativism about temporal thought. While it doesn't follow from this argument that fictionalism about temporal thought is true, we suggest that this nonetheless shows that fictionalism should be regarded as the preferred view.