Return to work program in a hospital setting

This exploratory field study evaluated the impact of a formal return to work program in a hospital setting. Results from a case study suggest that the return to work program reduced the average number of lost work days among injured employees. Implications of these results are discussed and future research is suggested.     

Normalization and excluded middle. I

The usual rule used to obtain natural deduction formulations of classical logic from intuitionistic logic, namely is stronger then necessary, and will give classical logic when added to minimal logic. A rule which is precisely strong enough to give classical logic from intuitionistic logic, and which is thus exactly equivalent to the law of the excluded middle, is It is a special case of a version of Peirce's law: In this paper it is shown how to normalize logics defined using these last two rules. Part I deals with propositional logics and first order predicate logics. Part II will deal with first order arithmetic and second order logics. This research was supported in part by grants EQ1648, EQ2908, and CE 110 of the program Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'aide à la Recherche (F.C.A.R.) of the Quèbec Ministry of Education.     

Advancing Creativity Theory and Research: A Socio-cultural Manifesto

This manifesto, discussed by 20 scholars, representing diverse lines of creativity research, marks a conceptual shift within the field. Socio-cultural approaches have made substantial contributions to the concept of creativity over recent decades and today can provide a set of propositions to guide our understanding of past research and to generate new directions of inquiry and practice. These propositions are urgently needed in response to the transition from the Information Society to the Post-Information Society. Through the propositions outlined here, we aim to build common ground and invite the community of creativity researchers and practitioners to reflect up, study, and cultivate creativity as a socio-cultural phenomenon.     

Samuel Scheffler on Valuing and Considering Valuable

Philosophia - Consider the utterances ‘our friendship is valuable’ and ‘I value our friendship’. On the face of it, these aren’t semantic equivalents: the former...