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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Scientific Method"”.
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The A Priori Nature of the Political: Democracy and Scientific Method in Thomas Hobbes
… Hobbes's politics in light of his conception of scientific method. The scholarship devoted to these two components of Hobbes's thought, that is his account of scientific method and his political philosophy, have largely existed in isolation from one another. Reading his politics through the lens …
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John Dewey on Theory of Learning and Inquiry: The Scientific Method and Subject Matter
… that, educationally, Dewey's ideas of the scientific method have different meanings in different context. It analyzes the scientific method as empirical method, critical thinking, cooperative learning, and creative thinking, and shows the place of subject matter in each of them.
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Precept and practice in science an examination of some objections to theories of scientific method
… philosophy of science has been to formulate a methodology of science—that is, a normative theory of scientific method. The rules and standards of such a theory are intended to capture the central features of scientific rationality and to explain the sense in which scientific knowledge …
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Test-driven fault navigation for debugging reproducible failures
… and error, experienced developers apply the scientific method and its systematic hypothesis-testing. However, even when using the scientific method, the search for failure causes can still be a laborious task. First, lacking expertise about the system makes it hard to understand incorrect …
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NEUROBIOLOGY OF HUMAN AGENCY, NEUROPHILOSOPHY, AND NEUROLAW: COULD NEUROSCIENCE BECOME A COERCIVE FORCE IN THE FUTURE?
The dominance of the scientific method and the worldview it produces dominates all kinds of discourse. This dominance is increasing and continues to displace traditional ways of understanding phenomena. Unfortunately, the well-merited success of the scientific method has resulted in a displacement …
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Anomalous Phenomena and the Limits of Science
This paper explores aspects of the scientific method which have proven inadequate to the task of producing verifiable and consistently repeatable experimental evidence for the existence of a particular category of phenomena, anomalous or psychic phenomena. The deficiencies of the method are not …
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What Implications Does the Understanding of the Governing Mechanics of the Universe Have on the Concept of Free Will?
… revised in order to be reconcilable with these scientifically demonstrable theories. Free will is often understood in terms of agency, which is a product of an actor’s volitions. These volitions, in turn, are thought to be the product of the mind and conscious experience of the actor. Depending …
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The design and organization of a junior college general chemistry laboratory
… of time lost to the student in implementing the scientific method?</p>
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The development and application of a test to detect certain habits of the scientific attitude among high school science students
… of a test to detect certain habits of the scientific attitude among high school science students.</p><p>Preliminary investigation relative to the problem centered around the two following procedures: (1) An attempt to determine and define the scientific attitude and its relation to …
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The professional knowledge base for teaching : a philosophical justification for a plurality of ways of knowing
… view of what constitutes acceptable research methodology and adequate professional knowledge for teaching. The positivistic paradigm of educational inquiry employs the scientific method to obtain general laws explaining classroom phenomena. These generalizations are then taught to teachers as …
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Insights and disclosures: a study of the philosophical theology of Bernard Lonergan and Ian Ramsey
… in humans is undertaken and hence science and scientific method give a strong indication of how we think and talk about God, theology and theological method. We therefore start with the authors’ views of science and scientific method, noting similarities alongside a crucial difference: Ramsey …
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Passwords to power: a public rationale for expert influence on central government policy-making: British scientists and economists. c.1900-c.1925
… to natural scientists that a new type of public scientific rhetoric emerged from circa 1870 and was voiced by a sizeable minority of scientists in the Edwardian period. The key feature of this new rhetoric (which Turner dubs 'Public Science') was a call for scientists to be involved in government …
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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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The doctrine of revelation in the theology of Thomas F. Torrance
… his engagement with the writings of Einstein on scientific method Torrance finds a similar gracing of scientific knowledge. Chapter one demonstrates the foundational place of revelation in Christ in Torrance's theology. From this self revelation Torrance arrives at his definition of scientific …
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Strategies used by high-school students in solving a rule induction task
… these steps parallel key elements of ""the scientific method"" as it is typically characterized in precollege education, this investigation also provided the opportunity to examine the extent to which the component skills necessary to implement that method have become part of the subjects' …
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Science and the sacred : new technologies within new religions : a reaction to secularization and a reinterpretation of myth
… The emphasis is placed upon the incorporation of scientific method, scientific findings, scientific theory, scientific terminology, and technological components within the rhetoric and praxis of historical and contemporary new religions. The purpose of this study is to examine the social factors …
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Effective social system design : using the systems approach for organisational development
… research. Incorporated into the model are; the scientific method specifically as described by C.S. Peirce, the concept of learning cycles specifically as described by C. Handy, and the SCQATRE method that draws from the work of Minto and Ryan. This method maps over a learning cycle and presents …
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Verse and its Sciences, 1880-1971: William Carlos Williams, Laura Riding, George Oppen, I. A. Richards and Veronica Forrest-Thomson
… analysis. But the knowledge exchange between scientific explanation and literary thinking has a long-standing and largely untold history, dating back to turn-of-the-century America and Europe. Entitled Verse and its Sciences, 1880-1971, my Ph.D. thesis tracks the extraordinary amount of …
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A Defense for Scientific Realism: Skepticisms, Unobservables & Interference to the Best Explanation
The epistemological status of scientific knowledge claims has been undermined by skepticism, in particular by universal skepticism. This thesis asserts that Bas C. van Fraassens empirical stance is akin to universal skepticism. This work also maintains that van Fraassens empirical stance does not …
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La reflexividad en las ciencias sociales: Hacia un ensamblaje ontológico, epistemológico y metodológico para la generación de un conocimiento situado
… others, moves in the opposite direction to the scientific method. However, the methodological reflexivity proposed as a critical tool by the qualitative methodologies of the last decades suggest that perhaps, this is the path that has tobe taken as a starting point. Experimenting with new …
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