Word: intuitionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Is science going soft? At the American Association for the Advancement of Science convention in San Francisco in February, 750 scientists, the second biggest crowd of the meeting, turned out to hear Dr. Robert Ornstein, 32, discourse on the "psychology of consciousness." For Ornstein, a researcher at the Langley Porter...
Western man's step-by-step, linear, analytic mode of knowledge has enriched him, Ornstein believes, but has also impoverished him by draining out, or underground, his intuition and more holistic ways of perceiving. What Ornstein is after is "a confluence" of the two streams of knowledge-the techniques...
Alpha Waves. It has also led him to psychological research on the two hemispheres of the brain, following the work pioneered more than a decade ago by Caltech's Roger Sperry. Researchers have subsequently found that the brain's left hemisphere, which controls the right side of the...
All but about 55 of the students will pay a hefty $290 per half course intuition. Over $600,000 of the total tuition money will come from outside grants, which means that although low-income students don't have to pay for the Summer School out of their own pockets...
Several trustees said last week that since the Strauch Committee is examining a wealth of different factors, it would be inappropriate for a Radcliffe trustee to offer anything other than a personal opinion. Yet when all is said and done, they agreed, the decision on merger will probably be based...