Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Randomized clinical trials have become the accepted scientific standard for evaluating therapeutic efficacy. Contradictory results from multiple randomized clinical trials on the same topic have been attributed either to methodologic deficiencies in…

Most of us are prone to hero worship. This talk sets out to address one a major problem in the work of one of the contemporary heros of architectural and planning historiography, Reyner Banham, and his advocacy of a (mythical) laissez-faire form of…

We reach, then, not a simple conclusion (law = class power) but a complex and contradictory one. On the one hand, it is true that the law did mediate class relations to the advantage of the rulers; not only is this so, but . . . the law became a…

Nathaniel branden has argued that since determinism precludes the freedom to test and reject false beliefs, it precludes knowledge that any of one's beliefs, including determinism, are true. i show that since such freedom does not exist anyway, if…

This article discusses engagement, complexity, and contradiction as resources for, rather than simply impediments to, good research. Drawing on examples from her own work of the past three decades on body image, commercial sex, and the medical use…

This dissertation is a theoretical and empirical examination of youth culture in Canada. Theoretically, a continuum of youth-related cultural theories was devised, and a framework that integrated critical interactionism, structuralism, and…

The author is concerned to exhibit the basic defect of the doctrine that everyone ought to do what is in his own best interest. It is argued that the ethical egoist implies, In the statement of his doctrine, That all autonomous individuals are ends…

The aim of this study was to explore the meaning of experience for home-care nurses in a multicultural area of Sweden. Interviews and group discussions with a team of five home-care nurses were interpreted in accordance with a hermeneutical…

The core idea of action research is that there should be an intimate relationship between inquiry and practical or political activities. A challenge to this idea based on an influential ancient Greek hierarchy between theoria and praxis is examined.…

The common medieval analysis of beginning and ceasing was based on the aristotelian doctrine, According to which there is a first instant of the new state or the last instant of the preceding state, But not both. The paper presents some 14th century…