This brilliantly conceived, highly original and entertaining divertissement reveals the complexity of Diderot's personality and of his philosophical ideas.
With deep influences from three eminent social scientists – the industrial sociologist Joan Woodward, the social psychologist Marie Jahoda, and the psychoanalyst Harold Bridger, one of the founding members of the Tavistock Institute – she conceived highly original research.
For each of his 'voices', Pessoa conceived a highly distinctive poetic idiom and technique, a complex biography, a context of literary influence and polemics and, most arrestingly of all, subtle interrelations and reciprocities of awareness.
From 1966 to 1970, she served as the first president of the National Organization for Women, which she named and helped to create; she conceived the highly effective Women's Strike for Equality; and, together with Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem, and others, she founded the National Women's Political Caucus.
The inability to conceive children is highly stressful for individuals and couples, and women bear the brunt of the reaction from society in most cases.
Guests are hardly dispassionate on what most of them conceive of as a highly ironic arrangement.
Research within management literature has focused on trust primarily in terms of "rational prediction" (Lewis and Weigert 1985) wherein agents conceive distrust as a highly risky situation that must be reduced or avoided by rational choices that predict distrust.
Pensioned modestly by the university in 1844, he began delving more deeply into philosophy and conceived of a highly animistic universe with God as its soul.
London 2012 organisers are facing a backlash from prospective parents who have learned they will need tickets for their newborn babies – even if they were not conceived when the highly prized seats were bought.
Because of the historical sexism of Western culture and because the paradigmatic philosopher was conceived of as highly rational, dispassionate, and independent, the female philosopher was virtually a contradiction in terms.
