I had friends over recently with their two daughters aged three and one, and the three-year-old suddenly called her father by his first name instead of Dad. We all started laughing and mocking our friend for not having any authority. The little girl was confused and did not seem to get the joke – and […]
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The Limits of Science in Psychiatry
Science is the most reliable form of knowledge that we have, but today, it has certain limits. Descartes prudently stated that science could only deal with the body and not with the soul (or the mind). From this original thought arose the dualism of mind versus body. Recently, this idea has been taken further by […]
The path less travelled
The notion of language difference – in contrast to language disorder or delay – is important for clinicians and researchers studying children’s language acquisition. The distinction between difference and disorder reflects the need to distinguish between a standard path of language development, that might for example be described in literature or used as a normative […]
Inclusive Language in Spanish Culture
Spanish is considered by some of its speakers — including linguists and philologists such as Teresa Meana Suárez and Claudia Guichard Bello — a sexist language. This is mainly because in Spanish the masculine gender is used to refer to both males and females as a generic form. In terms of human beings, this means […]
Bitcoin and the fallacy of money
A careless boy has broken the baker’s shop window. The baker is angry. Now he will need to spend his hard-earned money on replacing the window rather than buying himself a new pair of shoes. The glazier, however, is happy. We intuitively understand that this (presumed) accident in which value has been destroyed is an […]
Millions of years of evolution, right? : Stanley Kubrick and the Heart of Science
Presented on Tuesday 17 December 2019 at Behind Eyes Wide Shut, a symposium. Organisers: University of the Arts, London Archives and Special Collections Centre andthe Centre for Film, Television, and Screen Studies at Bangor University in Wales Abstract Stanley’s last message to the viewer, the grand finale of his cinematic statement, is the word fuck. […]