Humanists

For the freshmen and sophomores, the Seminar appears to be the first classroom opportunity to study scientific aspects of a changing global environment in relation to social and humanistic issues and to link these to current public policy discussions reported in the press. Class members have recommended that multidisciplinary global change instruction be made a requirement for all college... 

Andre Seguenny, Les Spirituds philosophie et religion chez les jeunes humanistes allemands au sdsihne siecle (Baden-Baden, Bouxwiller Editions Valentin Koemer, 2000), 49-64. 

The style of the hgures is related to the classical revival taking place in Padua in the 1440s to 1450s, inspired by Donatello s presence at the Santo church. Local antiquarians, such as the humanists Cyriaco d Ancona and Felice Feliciano had provided the initial... 

Bakst A, Meletiche D, Arnold R, et al. The Avandia Worldwide Awareness Registry (AWARe ) an Internet-based program for evaluation of clinical, humanistic and economic outcomes of patients with type 2 diabetes. International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Sixth Annual International Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2001. 

In making these observations, we may only be providing an echo of C. P. Snow s The Two Cultures, based on his Rede lecture for Cambridge University [2]. Snow s main point was that the lack of communication between the sciences and the humanities was a regrettable situation rife with negative consequences. The Two Cultures was meant to be both an admonition to thinkers and an invitation to have scientists and humanists work harder at understanding each other. 

Snow followed that book with a modified version. The Two Cultures A Second Look [3]. In this 1963 book, he suggested that a third culture would soon be upon us. As some have noted, for example, McGowan [4], that culture was fully upon us by the mid-1980s. But if we have three cultures, those of the scientist, the humanist, and the technologist, communication between the three could still improve along the lines Snow suggested. 

If there had been better communication between humanists and technologists, philosophers might already have resolved the matter of how computer ethics should be viewed. Of the forty-two articles listed in the Philosopher s Index under the category computer ethics, at least a dozen either focused on or touched upon the place of computer ethics in the pantheon of philosophy [see, e.g., 5-12]. The most basic question facing philosophers is the uniqueness of computer ethics. 

In short, we return to C. P. Snow s recommendation that the scientist and humanist converse more. The conversations, analysis, and discussion should include the third culture, the technologist. Therefore, although we have not provided specihc and detailed analysis of issues related to computer use in the pharmaceutical industry, believing as we do that that sort of analysis is for the specialized philosopher doing conceptual analysis in computers ethics, we do urge that applied philosophers be part of the research team. Also, in the dynamic and flexible world of technology, applied philosophers—not just the people in the held of computers—should help draft policy statements and codes of conduct. 

Field, J.V. and Frank A.J.L. James, eds.Renaissance and revolution humanists, scholars, craftsmen and natural Philosophers in Early Modem Europe. Ed. by J.V. Field and Frank A.J.L. James. Cambridge Cambridge Univ. P., 1993. 291p. 

Originally published as Through alchemy to chemistry. "Broad, humanistic treatment concentrates on the great figures of chemistry and the ideas that revolutionized the science, from earliest history to the modem era. Much of the book is devoted to alchemy,... 

Kozma, C.M., et al., "Economic, Clinical, and Humanistic Outcomes A Planning Model for Pharmacoeconomic Research," Clin. Therapeut., 15, 1121-1132 (1993). 

University of Illinois at the Medical Center, Humanistic Studies Program, Chicago, IL 60612... 

It is important to note that while the chemical physics part of natural philosophy often was taught by chemists, the mathematical physics part of natural philosophy frequently was pursued by mathematicians in the nineteenth century as a humanistic discipline exercising the faculty of reason and nurturing aesthetic sensibility.65 Indeed, Kuhn has argued that the disciplinary formation of modem physics along the lines of the early twentieth-century "physics" curriculum was due, in part, to mathematicians losing interest in applied math-... 

Photo by Keith Dannemiller originally published in The Texas Humanist, November December, 1984, courtesy the Texas Council for the Humanities. 

The strictly deterministic world vision of classical science led the philosophers (notably I. Kant) to introduce the notion of the two cultures, opposing the deterministic, cold, and rigid science to the humanistic domain of intuitions and unpredictable sentiments. IP and IS strongly state that classical science is dead and that the new science, metamorphosed by new Prigoginian vision of time, would allow, in the long term, a reunification of the two cultures. Indeed, Bergson s creative time is now inscribed into science. It manifests itself at the level of macroscopic thermodynamics through the bifurcations. 

GEN.238.1. Prigogine, Rencontre de deux cultures Humaniste et scientifique (The meeting of two cultures humanistic and scientific), Les Raisons de ITRE, no. 10, fev-avril 1997. 

A Cohort III interviewee had this to say about accepting a job offer I felt at home... When I walked into the lab, it was very much like the positive experience I had in graduate school. I really felt accepted. A Cohort III reported I chose (a well known company) because it appeared to be a more humanistic company... It was less cutthroat than some other companies. ... 

St. Jerome—the artist/alchemist/humanist is transubstantiated through the alchemical/artistic process. The female is absent from the scene, but her very absence signifies a passage toward the fulfillment of the Great Work, the dissolution of matter. 

However, this setback did little to diminish his reputation as a physician. In 1527 he was called to Basel, a city some 70 miles away. The wealthy publisher and humanist Johan Froben was ill with an infected leg. The local doctors had recommended amputation, a very dangerous procedure. In those days, many people died after having a limb amputated. Paracelsus moved into Froben s house and was able to cure him without resorting to such drastic measures. At the time... 

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