In Context #2

Fall 1999

Feature Articles

“Seeing Things Right-side Up: The Implications of Kurt Goldstein’s Holism”
By Craig Holdrege
The work of a pioneer of holism, a neurologist, deserves much more attention than it has received.

Notes and Reviews

“Bloodroot through the Year”
By Craig Holdrege
A sketch of the life cycle of the bloodroot plant.

“Can Phenomena Be Saved?”
By Stephen L. Talbott
The abstractions of Artificial Life and related disciplines threaten to alienate us even further from the phenomenal world.

“Where Shall the Mind Look for Itself”
By Stephen L. Talbott
A review of Ray Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines.

“Killing to Understand”
By Stephen L. Talbott
On George Russell’s work against unnecessary vivisection in the classroom.