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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Scientism"”.
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Feyerabend's Monster and the Critique of Scientism
… the groundwork for a critical social theory of scientism. Across his political writings, Feyerabend develops a critical diagnosis of late modernity vis-à-vis pervasive misrepresentations of science and the authority of experts. He also presents a vision of a ‘free society’ as an alternative …
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C. S. Lewis and the Premodern Rhetorical Tradition: The Abolition of Man as Rhetoric and Philosophy of Education
… interaction. However, through the worldview of scientism, modern education replaces the authority of this human tradition with the authority of method and technique. When modern education uses the authority of method and technique to replace human tradition, knowledge and values are mediated …
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The Transcendent Victorianism of Gerard Manley Hopkins
… the buoyancy of progress and the weightiness of scientism. The tremendous re-discovery, by certain discontented thinkers within the Anglican Church, of the Christian past must needs have widened the horizons on every side. Meanwhile it was an interval of great spiritual struggle. A few months …
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Social critique in the major novels of John Wyndham : civilization's secrets and nature's truths
… in any ideology, particularly in nationalism, Scientism (or the power of science to solve humanity's problems), and religion. Finally, Wyndham seems specifically concerned with the fate of humankind in light of Darwinian ideas of evolution and survival of the fittest.
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من علل الحديث إلى نقد المتن : تعارض الحديث والعقل ظاهريا بين المتقدمين والمعاصرين
… العقل وقدراته. فظهور فكرة قطعية العلم الحديث scientism وهيمنتها على التفكير العام والزعم أنه قادر دائما على الوصول إلى الحقيقة وأن الإيمان به هو جزء من التحضر والتمدن كل هذا رفع مكانة العلم إلى مرتبة لم تكن له من قبل وجعل رد الحديث أسهل عند المعاصرين من رد ما يتوصل له العلم – والذي ارتقى إلى …
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Zhang Yijing (1871-1931) and the search for a Chinese Christian identity
… influences of Confucianism, nationalism, and ‘scientism’. The insights gained from the examination above may serve as a reference for the present.
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The millennial generation’s self-care practices – a poetic representation
… notion of self-care without the encumbrances of scientism. The study examined their self-care practices and made sense of them contextually in order to be culturally relevant to them. Methodology: The research design used poetic inquiry to relook at the self-care practices of the millennial …
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Hierarchy and the Self in the Trilogy of C. S. Lewis
… with the narrative of the diabolic growth of scientism, Lewis also portrays the unfolding, the sharpening of the hierarchical, sacramental view of the universe. The myth of evolution is actually a false correspondence of Man's true hierarchical ascent. Indeed Lewis' characters often see the …
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Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art
… Fitzgerald’s book suggests that it is not scientism, but an appreciation of artful design—whether by a divine creator, or formed by a novel—that will lead humankind to a unified understanding of the world. They further share with literary modernism a reliance on parody, verbal play, and …
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Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art
… Fitzgerald’s book suggests that it is not scientism, but an appreciation of artful design—whether by a divine creator, or formed by a novel—that will lead humankind to a unified understanding of the world. They further share with literary modernism a reliance on parody, verbal play, and …
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A Lacanian Ideology Critique of Gender in Mathematics Education
… situation at the time of publication, including scientism, neoliberalism, evolutionism, and solutionism, (2) the ideology of interpellationism which indicates the role of scientific ways of knowing in capitalist political economy, and (3) theoretical foundations of what I call the …
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Künstliche Intelligenz und die Rationalität gesellschaftlichen Handelns
… the problem of body-soul and the opposition of scientism and hermeneutics. The following questions are under consideration: 1. Which philosophically important questions arise from the asserted claim of Artificial Intelligence to be able to reproduce the human mind? 2. How can Artificial …
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The Celebrity Scientists
… The subjects, to varying degrees, embody scientism as the supreme epistemology, but their public intellectual work is marked by a weak engagement with philosophical, cultural and sociological discourses. They engage with the cultural industries in the construction of their celebrity …
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Self-deception and moral blindness in the modern corporation
… of moral relativism and the self-deception of scientism. Each of these species is first identified and described theologically and then further developed using relevant literature in management, organizational theory and business ethics. To ground these conclusions, they are applied to an …
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Primary Teachers' Understandings Of The Nature Of Science And The Purposes Of Science Education
… view of the nature of science are proposed - scientism, naive empiricism, new-age-ism, constructivism, pragmatism, and scepticism. It is suggested that teachers’ accommodation of science into their practice can involve its structural and organisational interweaving into the fabric of their …
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Beyond the material : rethinking the limits of reality through philosophy, science, and anthropology : is there something else?
… philosophical underpinnings of materialism and scientism. It examines the historical shift from science as a methodological tool to an ontological authority, critiques the conceptual vagueness of materialism, and highlights its vulnerability to Hempel’s dilemma and Gödel’s incompleteness …
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Creative Common Worlding with Research Creation in Early Childhood Education
… the realities of shared place, beyond positivist scientism habits that separate humans from nature. The fifth chapter is the catalogue from the solo art exhibition Inklings: Becoming with a Palette of Place, a creative experimentation in building place relations through local, foraged materials …
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Straddling paradigms: an interpretive hermeneutic exploration of the experience of midwives practising homeopathy
… a challenge to practice based in notions of scientism and bureaucracy. Further exploration of these phenomenon’s could help to deliver on the drive to deliver compassionate personalised care across the NHS as a whole.
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CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF COLOMBIAN IDENTITIES AND HUMANATURE IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE (1903-1952)
… followed the main precepts of positivism and scientism pointing out objectivity, empirical evidence, direct observation, and documentation. In the period of 1940-1947, technological innovations that revolutionized photography allowed for the entry of new stories and new voices of travelers, …
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‘Memento Mori’… Remember You Will Die: Memorializing the Dead in the Digital Age
… I make that case that in eras of ‘emergent scientism’ (Lutz, 2011), curiosity over the meaning of life, death, and the ability to ‘see beyond the veil’ is piqued. Often resulting from this curiosity are calls to renegotiate the social order as it relates to our understanding of life and …
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