André Höhn: Beobachtungen zur Formung des Sokratesbildes im platonischen 'Symposion'

Talent Management is a relatively young field of study, and is particularly unexplored in non-profit organisations that have their main focus on knowledge. Moreover, recent findings within Talent Management show that the performance of organisations correspondsto a Pareto distribution, i.e. 80 percentof the organisational performance is produced by 20 percent of the people. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the distribution of academic outputs in terms of publications in two different universities, with one hypothesis that the outputs follow the Pareto Principle. Moreover, based on the results, suggestions on further work within Talent Management are given, taking on an inclusive approach to talent.The research includes two technical universities located in separate countries. Professors’ performance is considered as their number of publications, and data of professors’ performance was gathered from the database Scopus. The data gathering, together with a literature study on Talent Management, the Pareto Principle and University Rankings, created the basis for analysis. The results showed that a minority of professors stands for a majority of the performance. Hence, the implications for Talent Management are to focus resources on the underperforming professors to improve the academic outputs of the universities.Incomin

Theophrast: Metaphysik

Theophrastus' treatise "Metaphysics" contains a compact and critical reconstruction of unsolved systematic problems of classical Greek philosophy. It is primarily about fundamental problems of ontology and natural philosophy, such as the question of the interdependence of principles and perceptible phenomena or the plausibility of teleology as a methodical principle of the explanation of nature. The aim of the critical Greek-German edition (with introduction and commentary) is to make visible the systematic significance of Theophrastus' critique of metaphysics

Predicting dispersal of auto-gyrating fruit in tropical trees : a case study from the Dipterocarpaceae

Acknowledgments We thank the Sabah Forestry Department for access to SFR and the Rainforest Discovery Center for use of the canopy tower. JRS is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) grant number PDFMP3_132479/1. We are grateful for the comments of two anonymous reviewers which greatly improved the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Dispositional Knowledge-how versus Propositional Knowledge-that

The paper deals with the question of the structure of knowledge and the precise relationship between propositional "knowledge that" and dispositional "knowledge how." In the first part of my essay, I provide an analysis of the term 'knowing how' and argue that the usual alternatives in the recent epistemological debate – knowing how is either a form of propositional or dispositional knowledge – are misleading. In fact it depends on the semantic and pragmatic context of the usage of this term whether 'knowing how' refers to a type of dispositional knowledge, to propositional knowledge, or to a hybrid form of both. Only in the first case, can one say that dispositional know how cannot be reduced to any form of propositional knowledge. Yet, this case is the most interesting one to consider in the investigation of the nature of knowledge, if one assumes that knowing that p presupposes "having found out that p." Having found something out, however, presupposes certain acts of epistemic inquiry and corresponding epistemic abilities. Examined more carefully, it is shown that the dispositional knowledge-how is a necessary condition for propositional knowledge-that, hence propositional knowledge-that is a species of the dispositional knowledge-how. Accordingly, dispositional knowledge has to be understood as being at the very core of our notion of knowledge, including propositional knowledge

Questioning Gödel's Ontological Proof: Is Truth Positive?

In his "Ontological proof", Kurt Gödel introduces the notion of a second-order value property, the positive property P. The second axiom of the proof states that for any property φ: If φ is positive, its negation is not positive, and vice versa. I put forward that this concept of positiveness leads into a paradox when we apply it to the following self-reflexive sentences: (A) The truth value of A is not positive; (B) The truth value of B is positive. Given axiom 2, sentences A and B paradoxically cannot be both true or both false, and it is also impossible that one of the sentences is true whereas the other is false

Saving Seven Embryos or Saving One Child? Michael Sandel on the Moral Status of Human Embryos

Suppose a fire broke out in a fertility clinic. One had time to save either a young girl, or a tray of ten human embryos. Would it be wrong to save the girl? According to Michael Sandel, the moral intuition is to save the girl; what is more, one ought to do so, and this demonstrates that human embryos do not possess full personhood, and hence deserve only limited respect and may be killed for medical research. We will argue, however, that no relevant ethical implications can be drawn from the thought experiment. It demonstrates neither that one always ought to let the embryos die, nor does it allow for any general conclusion concerning the moral status of human embryos

Return to Sport Following Closed Reduction of Acute Traumatic Posterior Sternoclavicular Joint Dislocations: A Systematic Review

Acute traumatic posterior sternoclavicular (SC) joint dislocation is a serious injury given its potential to cause cardiovascular and airway compromise that typically will require emergent closed reduction. Posterior SC joint dislocations are usually caused by a high energy mechanism. Typical treatment involves closed reduction followed by observation. There is limited data on the rate of return to sport following this injury pattern when treated in a closed fashion