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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Science--Philosophy"”.
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On the Crossroads of Science, Philosophy and Literature: Andrey Bely's "Petersburg"
The radical developments in science at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries greatly influenced the general perception of the universe, contemporary discussion of the cultural crisis, and Modernist literature in Russia and the West. My work examines the importance of …
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Exploring the nature of models in science, philosophy of science, and science education
The term model is ubiquitous in science, philosophy of science, and science education. Although there is no general consensus regarding its definition, the traditional approach in all of these disciplines has always been to view models as some kind of representation of reality. Recently, however, …
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Analysis and Development of Post Secondary Curriculum on Sustainability
… is organized around three major elements - - science, philosophy, and economics - - all integral to understanding sustainability. Materials needed to teach the proposed 3-semester hour course including syllabus, teaching modules, transparencies, handouts, and exams were developed. Suggestions …
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Lovers of the Enlightenment: Emilie & Voltaire
… of the mind, as they shared their passions for science, philosophy and intellectual discourse. Emilie was an extraordinary woman, writing what is still the definitive French translation and commentary on the work of Isaac Newton. This play introduces her to a modern audience; a woman who for …
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Down to Earth Ethics: Exploring Relation and Environmental Responsibility
… rational investigation and the material facts of science. The heart of ethical responsibility in general, and the motive to care for nature in particular, are caught up in the phenomenon of relation. The implications of this for environmental ethics are profound. If our goal as environmental …
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Abductive empiricism: the significance of substance in Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary
… and offers a much-needed marriage between science, philosophy, and literary studies. To this end I will utilize Andy Weir’s science fiction novel Project Hail Mary as a case study for this theory, as it offers a wealth of empirical data that serves to validate a variety of ontological …
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The kinesfield : a study of movement-based interactive and choreographic art
… fields of dance, physiology/psychology/cognitive science, philosophy and sociology, plastic arts and cinema. This written document is accompanied by a CD-ROM which serves as an electronic appendix including images, videos and diagrams of the works referenced in the written thesis.
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Interrelating with animals: nonhuman selves in the literary imagination
… debates in the fields of animal and cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and anthropology, resulting in theoretical work that paints an intriguing picture of what animal selves might consist of and how we may already know those selves. As the foundation for this study of contemporary …
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Traumatic bodies and diasporic disaffection: a study of Iranian American literature in English
… events. Combining the findings in cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, and psychoanalysis, I highlight the plasticity of traumas and their enduring bodily affects. To do so, I consult a host of scholars including Sigmund Freud, Antonio Damasio, Elaine Scarry, Slavoj Žižek, Iris Marion …
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Facing The Animal : Physiognomy and Pathognomy in the Long Nineteenth Century
… infiltrate the images and prose of contemporary science, philosophy, fiction, and journalism. The dialogues between these disciplines engage debates surrounding evolution, theology, and the creation of taxonomical hierarchies of man and animals. This thesis is relevant to modern work across a …
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The Technological Infrastructure of Science
… I explore a selection of recent work in the philosophy and history of experiment, with an eye toward reformulating its focus and redirecting its future path. Specifically, I re-examine a traditional problem in the philosophy of experiment: how to make sense of scientists' attempts to separate …
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The code is not coloured: blackboxing colour, light, graphic arts and modernity
Do we need a philosophy of colour technology? Automation of reproduction technology will relegate graphic design to the ranking of visual art, a fate that crafts such as weaving, ceramics and glass have suffered. The twentieth century saw the demise of specialist fields such as drafting, woodcut, …
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The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… feminist historicism, legal studies, political science, philosophy, nonfiction studies, and biography. After an opening theoretical and historical chapter on women, consent, and marriage, three chapters and three literary case studies in the body expose laws dictating female marital consent. …
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Curious virtuosity: the emergence and decline of unconventional repertory for timpani and percussion in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
… the Enlightenment spirit continued to dominate science, philosophy, society and the arts in an effort to sweep away the last vestiges of medieval ideology. I argue that these works reflect, albeit modestly, the culmination of an era of power and prestige and constitute a turning point for …
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Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature
… was to produce a synthesis of Christian philosophy with the natural philosophy o f Aristotle. Also, by drawing on elements from Jewish and Islamic thought, St. Thomas proves that it is possible for us in the twenty first century to move forward and to explore every avenue to find a common …
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Making Sense in Nineteenth Century Britain: Affinities of the Philosophy of Mind, c.1820-1860
… in the history of psychology, the history of philosophy, and the history of ideas in general. This conspicuous lacuna forms the basis for two simple questions: What was the situated significance of work on the human mind in nineteenth century Britain? What was it supposed to accomplish, or be …
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From the Harmony of the Spheres to Spherical Harmonics : The Potential of Wave-Based Morphogenetic Processes for Musical and Architectural Composition
… analogies in several fields (mythology, poetry, science, philosophy...), and which at times explicitly considered music and architecture as terrestrial echoes of the cosmos. The development of science from XVIIth century on has put a definitive end to the claim of this relationship at revealing …
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Causation and Explanation in Molecular Developmental Biology
… is to provide an analysis of central concepts in philosophy of science from the perspective of current molecular and developmental research. Each chapter explores the ways in which particular phenomena or discoveries in molecular biology influences our philosophical understanding of the nature of …
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Symmetry and Probability
Judgments of symmetry lay at the heart of the classical theory of probability. It was by direct appeal to the symmetries exhibited by the processes underlying simple games of chance that the earliest theorists of probability were able to justify the initial assumptions of equiprobability which …
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