The quarrel of a brother and sister threatens to tear a family apart. Sisters make peace and find their way back to each other's affection. In which the family photograph album is taken out and examined. We cannot escape them. They're about birth, loss, and death within the family.
Generations pass as inevitably as time.
A sixtieth birthday is marked and a baby is mourned. Literate and scientific modes of thought supposedly opposed more primitive modes. But contemporary scholars reject a hierarchical arrangement of thought styles. David Cayley reports from a recent symposium in Toronto, at which anthropologists, historians of ideas, philosophers of science and cognitive psychologists met to discuss modes of thought. The nature of conceptual change in science is one of the subjects discussed in this series by David Cayley about how we think and the distinctions between different ways of thinking.