Modern Humanities Research Research Articles

A reflection on the anthropological status of craftsmanship from a Spinozist perspective

Our society’s view of the value of different occupations still seems to be shaped by dualistic traditions that conceive mind and body as different entities. This view of human nature is often connected to a devaluation of physical labor and craftsmanship which in turn makes it difficult to attract young people to the craft sector. Monistic-naturalistic ideas, which do not separate mind and body and which find one of their most important protagonists in the Dutch philosopher Spinoza, come to a different perspective. Moreover, in modern human research they are receiving much more recognition than the dualistic tradition. This should also foster a new perspective on the social recognition of craftsmanship.

The Washington University Central Neuroimaging Data Archive

Since the early 2000's, much of the neuroimaging work at Washington University (WU) has been facilitated by the Central Neuroimaging Data Archive (CNDA), an XNAT-based imaging informatics system. The CNDA is uniquely related to XNAT, as it served as the original codebase for the XNAT open source platform. The CNDA hosts data acquired in over 1000 research studies, encompassing 36,000 subjects and more than 60,000 imaging sessions. Most imaging modalities used in modern human research are represented in the CNDA, including magnetic resonance (MR), positron emission tomography (PET), computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine (NM), computed radiography (CR), digital radiography (DX), and ultrasound (US). However, the majority of the imaging data in the CNDA are MR and PET of the human brain. Currently, about 20% of the total imaging data in the CNDA is available by request to external researchers. CNDA's available data includes large sets of imaging sessions and in some cases clinical, psychometric, tissue, or genetic data acquired in the study of Alzheimer's disease, brain metabolism, cancer, HIV, sickle cell anemia, and Tourette syndrome.

Tom Lundskær-Nielsen, Prepositions in English grammars until 1801 – with a survey of the Western European background. London/Odense: Modern Humanities Research Association/University Press of Southern Denmark, 2011. Pp. x + 307.

Tom Lundskær-Nielsen, Prepositions in English grammars until 1801 – with a survey of the Western European background. London/Odense: Modern Humanities Research Association/University Press of Southern Denmark, 2011. Pp. x + 307. - Volume 17 Issue 3

The Conflict of Pre-Paradigm Schools in Modern Human Origins Research

The debate on the origins of modern humans is one of the oldest and most controversial in the field of palaeoanthropology. In the 1860s the debate was established in the evolutionary context and, as a conflict between two major schools and various sub-schools, it has continued up until the present day. The opposing schools were and still are, at best, in only partial alignment on the major scientific issues. Each of them is founded in its own metaphysics and focuses on an exclusive set of observations that it is capable of explaining. It would appear, therefore, that the history and present state of modern human origins research may be interpreted, in terms of Kuhn's philosophy of science, as an example of a pre-paradigm scientific dispute. This interpretation shows the immaturity of modern human origins research and calls for the re-examination of palaeoanthropology's basic theoretical propositions as well as of this sciencie's controversial relationship with the society.

Conceptual issues in modern human origins research

Conceptual issues in modern human origins research

Paradigm crisis in modern human origins research

L'auteur fait le point sur la situation de la recherche sur l'evolution humaine depuis plusieurs annees, se developpant au rythme de l'interminable debat sur les branches de l'evolution (la theorie de l'evolution multiregionale, et la theorie de l'Eve africaine) separant la communaute scientifique en deux et aboutisant a une impasse

The Eadwine Psalter. Text, image, and monastic culture in twelfth-century Canterbury. Edited by Margaret Gibson, T. A. Heslop and Richard W. Pfaff (MHRA 14.) Pp. xvii + 228 incl. frontispiece + 48 plates. London: Modern Humanities Research Association/University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. 0 947623 46 9; 0 271 00837 7

The Eadwine Psalter. Text, image, and monastic culture in twelfth-century Canterbury. Edited by Margaret Gibson, T. A. Heslop and Richard W. Pfaff (MHRA 14.) Pp. xvii + 228 incl. frontispiece + 48 plates. London: Modern Humanities Research Association/University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. 0 947623 46 9; 0 271 00837 7 - Volume 45 Issue 1