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AbstractIn recent years, the practice of film interpretation has come under attack by cognitive film theorists. It is said that interpretive claims are not truth-apt and have no cognitive value. This essay contests this claim by calling on the pragmatic and semeiotic philosophy of Charles S. Peirce. The essay is divided into two parts. The first part examines Peirce's pragmatism and the notion that theories are inescapably inferential and interpretive. The author distinguishes between the pragmatic and the scientific methods, examines the role of habit as a way to bridge the gap of mind/matter dualism, and considers Peirce's realism in the context of his critical common-sensism. The second section looks at some leading ideas in film/literary scholarship on interpretation. In particular, the author questions David Bordwell's critique of interpretive criticism and its reliance on skeptical and nominalist principles borrowed from Stanley Fish. It is shown how Bordwell's distinction between comprehension and interpretation in the cinema rests on the role played by sensory perception in the film experience. The distinction is criticized by adopting a form of empirism—that of Peirce—that is not limited by sensualism. Indeed, for Peirce, perception spreads continuously between the external and the inner worlds. A brief commentary on the work of Umberto Eco and the distinction between interpreting and overinterpreting then leads the author to consider the role of vagueness in interpretation and the problems raised by purpose and relevance of interpretation now defined as all that compels the mind of the spectator through direct—or even indirect—contact with a film. This turn opens up the issues of truth, rationality and normativity in interpretation. The paper concludes with the author arguing that film interpretation constitutes a process whereby signs—including aesthetic signs—can grow in rationality.

AbstractIn this paper, we are proposing a framework to integrate the core insights of the constructivist and biological approaches of mental illness. In order to do so, we will use some recent propositions by philosophers of biology, specifically ideas put forth by «developmental system theory» (Griffiths et Gray 1994, Griffiths et Stotz 2000 ; Oyama 1999) and the notion of «generative entrenchment» (Wimsatt 1986, 1999, 2000).

Based on a multiple cases study, this article focuses on the suicide of SME owners-managers, a taboo topic that remains virtually unexplored by specialists in SME and entrepreneurship. More specifically, it attempts to understand the meaning and causes of the suicidal gesture among business leaders by mobilizing a double framework of analysis: the typology of suicide from sociologist Baechler (1975) and the stressors of entrepreneurial activity of Lechat and Torrès (2016a, 2016b, 2017). To this end, the paper suggests a novel methodological approach on the basis of secondary data on 25 concrete cases of suicide that occurred in France and Italy. The results highlight the predominant role of over-indebtedness in the root causes that lead managers to end their lives. However, not everyone experiences the situation in the same way, and therefore does not give the same meaning to their suicidal gesture. Thus, different types of suicides specific to SME owners-managers have been identified through Baechler's typology.

Keywords: Santé au travail, Suicide, Stress entrepreneurial, Surendettement, Dirigeants-propriétaires de PME, France, Italie, Occupational health, Suicide, Entrepreneurial stress, Over-indebtedness, SME owners-managers, France, Italy, Salud laboral, Suicidio, Estrés empresarial, Sobreendeudamiento, Dirigentes propietarios de PyME, Francia, Italia

Background: In health and social care (HASC) professional education, interprofessional competencies are optimally developed by engaging in interprofessional education (IPE) activities that are delivered sustainably along a continuum. Ultimately, active engagement in IPE is meant to prepare future practitioners for interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP), which leads to improved patient/client and community-oriented outcomes.Methods and Findings: This qualitative case study explores how four Canadian post-secondary institutions deliver IPE within their HASC professional education programmatic structures. Data were collected from institutional websites, publicly available IPE relevant records and documents, and interviews with coordinators and faculty/facilitators of IPE curriculum. Data were inductively analyzed to generate relevant themes, followed by a deductive analysis guided by the five accreditation standards domains identified in the Accreditation of Interprofessional Health Education (AIPHE) projects. Analyses of the data resulted in five attributes: 1) central administrative unit, 2) longitudinal and integrative program, 3) theoretically informed curriculum design, 4) student-centred pedagogy, and 5) patient/client-oriented approach.Conclusions: Using these attributes and guided by AIPHE’s accreditation standards domains, an organizational-curricular model for sustainable IPE is proposed, through which we assert that IPE reinforced through these organizational and curricular supports reflects successful programming, leading to patient/client-oriented outcomes.

Keywords: interprofessional education, integrated curriculum, prelicensure education

This study examines the Canadian information research landscape through the lens of the eight academic units hosting ALA-accredited programs. We created a citation-based network utilizing the scholarly articles published by the faculty members and PhD students at each academic unit to identify and characterize distinct research clusters within the field. Then we determined how the publications and researchers from each unit are distributed across the clusters to describe their area of specialization. Our findings emphasize how the inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinary nature of the Canadian information research landscape forms a rich mosaic of information scholarship.

Keywords: bibliométrie, bibliometrics, sciences de l’information, information studies, bibliothéconomie, library studies, pôles de recherche, research clusters, grappes de recherche

ln her article, the author draws the principals of the law governing the protection of personal information in the private sector, particularly those which would significantly affect the financial institutions or the insurers operations. To meet such an objective, she frequently call upon to the case law. She hopes that this study could be of help to the insurers and the financial institutions to better understand any of their obligations and to concretely manage them, in order not to increase risks nor to upset against their clientele.