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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"History and Philosophy of Science"”.
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Tracing Social Science: The Manuscript Review Process
Manuscripts and reviews submitted to the American Sociological Review between 1977 and 1982 and professional-biographical characteristics of authors, editors and reviewers were examined to identify and describe factors influencing the decision to publish or reject manuscripts. Following a review of …
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Values in Action: Simplicity, Completeness, and Carefulness in the Development of the Systematisations of Chemical Elements
… Ivanovich Mendeleev, Julius Lothar Meyer, and John Newlands – emphasised different values when developing their systematisations of the chemical elements in 1863-1875. While no chemist emphasised just one value in the course of establishing of their systematisations, I argue that Newlands …
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Gaston Bachelard's scientific philosophy: an approach to science and technology studies
The contributions of Gaston Bachelard to the history and philosophy of science are not very well known in the United States. This thesis traces the particular characteristics of Bachelard's epistemology within the context of early twentieth century French culture and science. Bachelard began his …
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Magic and possibility: medievalism and the idea of the occult
… thesis concerns the means by which the notion of medieval or premodem magic (and the occult or hidden) is articulated and theorized within the humanities. While anthropology has frequently contended with the issue of magic's problematic agency within scholarly discourse, the historiography of …
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Cervical Cancer at the Crossroads. An historical ontology of evidence in cervical cancer prevention
… interrogates the clinical, epistemological and ontological implications of complex changes in the practices of cervical cancer prevention. Since the post-war period, women throughout most western countries have undergone cytology-based screening to detect and treat cellular changes before …
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The Therapist as Scientist: A Philosophical Appraisal of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), one of the most popular schools of contemporary psychotherapy, presents itself as "scientific" and "evidence-based", particularly in contrast with its predecessor, psychoanalysis. This scientific image has shaped CBT on a number of levels. For example, the …
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Michel Serres’s Philosophy of Limits. Passages between the Philosophy of Science and Critical Theory
This thesis examines Michel Serres’s philosophy of limits. Its aim is to trace limit formations as operative functions of thought, which perform interdisciplinary translations between philosophy of science, aesthetics, and critical theory. In order to pursue this aim, a number of Serres’s works …
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Equal Opportunities on Ice: Examining gender and institutional change at the British Antarctic Survey, 1975-1996
This dissertation examines the recent history of an institution with a rich and varied heritage and a proud culture. In recognition of the limitations of this project, due to both the inevitably subjective research process and the constraints of research at the master’s level, I would like to begin …
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Verse and its Sciences, 1880-1971: William Carlos Williams, Laura Riding, George Oppen, I. A. Richards and Veronica Forrest-Thomson
… Literary Lab to recent calls for an “ordinary science’ of literary criticism, researchers in English have increasingly looked to the sciences to provide new frameworks for textual analysis. But the knowledge exchange between scientific explanation and literary thinking has a long-standing and …
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Performative Experiments: Case Studies in the Philosophy of Art, Science and Technology
… can transform our philosophical understanding of scientific experiment itself. The collection of artworks that form the basis of my case studies includes imaginary scientific instruments, responsive sound environments, genetic portraits and live scientific demonstrations. Despite their …
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Transitions in the Mental Health Field's System of Professions from WWII until the Present: The Case of Dubville
A case study of one mental health field in a medium-sized, steel-belt city over a 50 year period is presented. Through interviews and archive data, the narrative elucidates the transitions that occurred in regards to which professions are dominant, and which services count as mental health …
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Bohmian Quantum Mechanics with Quantum Trajectories
… method in the hydrodynamical formulation of Madelung-Bohm-Takabayasi quantum mechanics is an example of showing the cognitive importance of scientific illustrations and metaphors in computational quantum chemistry and electrical engineering. The method involves several numerical schemes of …
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Uncovering strata: an investigation into the graphic innovations of geologist Henry T. De la Beche
An historical investigation into the types of illustrations in the Golden Age of Geology (1788-1840) revealed the nature and progression of graphic representation at the dawning of geology as a science. Exhaustive sampling of geology texts published in the period of focus proceeded until saturation …
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When better worlds collide: historical essays on the politics of international development and social science
This thesis is on politics, but of a very particular type. Tied to our very perceptions of existence and ways of life, it stems from deeper differences and entanglements. Exacerbated by post-Cold War globalisation, said politics is explored here in the contexts of international development. …