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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Scientific Epistemology"”.
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Revisiting scientific epistemology in architecture : ekistics and modernism in the Middle East
… science for human settlements" which promoted a scientific method for architectural design and planning. It had an immense impact on many fields of architecture and planning worldwide, especially during the sixties. With the theoretical shifts in subsequent decades, Ekistics was displaced as …
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Native Knowing, Western Knowing, and Biblical Knowing: Developing an Integrated Epistemology for Missions
… Paul Hiebert applied Michael Polanyi’s shifts in scientific epistemology to missiology’s epistemology, but an explicitly biblical epistemology was not forthcoming. Dru Johnson has proposed an epistemology derived directly from Scripture which also corresponds to Polanyian principles. Though …
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The Abstract Ecology of Modern Life: Re-imagining Environments as Public Spheres
… gathers the sociological critiques of the techno-scientific epistemology and the public management of risk offered by Ulrich Beck with some social studies of the production and use of space. These critiques reveal aspects of everyday life that comprise a distinctly disengaged mode of person-world …
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The Victoria Institute 1865-1932: A Case Study in the Relationship between Science and Religion
… felt increasingly unwelcome in the secularising scientific arena. Chapter Two reports the results of a detailed longitudinal study of the Victoria Institute’s membership, which provides vital demographic material, such as the location, occupation, education, and religious denomination of members. …
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The Technological Infrastructure of Science
… results that will be accepted by prevailing scientific standards—requires modifications in order to be made compatible with an adequate notion of historiography and with a philosophically and historically tenable view of scientific epistemology. I show that the concept of historical narrative …
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Interactivity, computers and orthodontic training for undergraduates
… the results to a domain heavily dominated by a scientific epistemology.<br></br><br></br>Throughout the program many students seem to ignore features not in their immediate focus. Students' reactions to the unexpected (extraction of 7s) indicates about half of the students are so reliant on …
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SISTEMI, STRUTTURE, SFORZI, MOTI. L¿ANALOGIA TRA SCIENZE FISICO-MATEMATICHE E SCIENZE CIVILI NELLA FILOSOFIA DI G.W. LEIBNIZ
The research aims at tracing underlying connections, in Leibniz’s writings, between ethical, legal and political science – on the one side –, and physics, mechanics, biology, and his later dynamics – on the other. More clearly: this research undertakes to fully uncover existing convergences and …
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Exploring the past and the present in order to predict the future: herbarium specimens, field data and extinction probability for conservation managers
… of protected areas. The thesis deals with the epistemology of science, biocultural heritage, extinction probability and species detection in protected areas. This thesis explores herbarium data from a number of points of view, and looks at the value of herbarium collections to plant species …