Alterity The term alterity derives from the Latin word alter , which means "other." In contemporary philosophy the question of the other is primarily that of the other human being, the Other ( Autrui , in French), although some thinkers...

Alterity is a philosophical term meaning 'otherness', strictly being in the sense of the other of two (Latin alter). It is generally now taken as the philosophical principle of exchanging one's own perspective for that of the "other." The concept was...

Rejecting a wave of criticisms, the government has agreed to only modest changes in the computerized system that assesses whether each American who travels abroad poses a terrorist threat.The Homeland Security Department decided to keep the risk assessments for 15 years instead of 40 years...

A staff photographer for The Blade who digitally altered a front-page photo has resigned, the newspaper said Monday.Allan Detrich had told Blade editors that he altered a photo of a college baseball team for his personal files and mistakenly sent it to the newspaper.The photo...

A photographer for The Blade who digitally changed a front-page photo of an Ohio baseball team also altered 57 other pictures that were published in the newspaper or on its Web site this year, the newspaper said Sunday.Allan Detrich, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1998,...

A staff photographer for The Blade digitally altered a front-page photo of an Ohio college baseball team that lost five players in a bus crash, the newspaper says.Allan Detrich will be suspended with pay while the paper investigates, The Blade said Friday."The Blade takes such...