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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"modern science"”.
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Clarifying the Conflict Between Modern Science and Natural Right
… troubled relationship between natural right and modern science. It proceeds by comparing the ancient (Plato and Aristotle) and modern (Descartes and Bacon) conceptions of natural inquiry, through the categories of aims and attunements. I argue that whereas the aim of Platonic and Aristotelian …
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ITIKI: Bridge between African indigenous knowledge and modern science on drought prediction
… from events such as climate variations and ""modernisation""; blending it with the scientific forecasts can mitigate some of this. Conversely, incorporating Indigenous Knowledge Forecasts into the Seasonal Climate Forecasts will improve its relevance (cultural and local) and acceptability, …
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At the Margins of Modern Science: Leviathan and the Air-Pump as a Case Study for Meta-analysis of Contemporary Science and Technology Studies
… focusing on its reception and its standing in science and technology studies in the fifteen years since its publication. This work claims to be an "origins" story for the modern form of life that we now call the scientific community, and this claim has not itself been contested strongly by …
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An Examination of the Needham Question: Why Didn't China Have a Scientific Revolution Considering Its Early Scientific Accomplishments?
… formulated several important queries about science and technology in China. Known as Needham’s “Grand Question” or “Puzzle,” he asked why modern science developed in Europe rather than in China, despite China’s advanced technology, and examined the inhibiting factors in Chinese civilization …
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Distances
… I draw an analogy to the evolution of modern science by stating that my need for personal clarity is analogous to the charge for empirical clarity of modern science. Furthermore, I contrast the objectivism of modern science to the subjectivism of creative writing. The four short stories …
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Giordano Bruno and the history of science
Historians of science express widely divergent interpretations of the significance of the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) to the history of science. An examination of the history of science reveals two basic schools of thought about Bruno. Specifically, historians of science disagree …
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Making a third place: the science and the poetry of husbandry
… place. There is an intricate connection between modern science and industrialised agriculture, both of which developed on the basis of particular values associated with Good Husbandry – those which focused on individual innovation, profit-related productivity, quantitative measurement, objective, …
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The Galileo plays of Bertolt Brecht and Barrie Stavis
… Stavis simultaneously explored the morality of modern science through the dramatization of Galileo's seventeenth century recantation of the truth involving the physical universe. Significant, yet contrasting statements were made about the modern world.
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Footnotes to Footnotes: Whitehead's Plato
… applies to philosophical interpretations of modern science (e.g. relativity theory, Big Bang cosmology, quantum physics).</p> <p>Several themes emerge in these examinations. – One is that an assessment of the validity of Whitehead’s reading of Plato involves ambiguities that have their root …
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The Evolution Of Science: A Systems Approach
… a common approach in contemporary philosophy of science. I therefore begin the dissertation by arguing that these two areas of philosophy are intimately interrelated, and that the one-sided concentration on epistemological issues has led to an unsatisfactory account of the nature of knowledge. In …
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The idea of paradigm in church history: the notion of papal monarchy in the thirteenth century, from Innocent III to Boniface VIII
… theory of papal monarchy is said by some modern historians to have been systematic in character and the dominant way of understanding the papacy in the thirteenth century. As such, the hierocratic theory bears a strong resemblance to how the concept ‘paradigm’ from Thomas Kuhn’s book "The …
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The Signatures of Plants in Early Modern Europe, 1580-1720
… of signatures’, as a technique in early modern science and medicine. By signature, it refers to the sensory characteristics of plants that were taken as indicators of their medicinal properties, often in the form of visual resemblances between plants and human organs or disease symptoms. …
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Radical Politics and Popular Science in Britain, 1811–43: Richard Carlile and Infidel Materialism
This thesis examines the position of science in the thought and political agitation of the freethought campaigner and radical publisher Richard Carlile (1790–1843). Carlile was one of the most high-profile political prisoners in nineteenth-century Britain, serving over a decade in prison across the …
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Machine learning meets and enhances protein engineering
Machine learning plays a pivotal role in modern science, and the study of proteins is equally vital due to their essential biological functions. In my research, I propose new machine learning models and algorithms, including novel generative models, advanced data augmentation techniques, innovative …
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Implementation of labcreator and the integration of cyberlab
… courses are becoming more and more popular in modern science education. CyberLab aims to solve an important issue in distance science education -- laboratory experiments in online courses. It is a toolkit that handles creation, exportation, and execution of virtual experiments (within web …
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An exploratory study with preliminary results : the development and evaluation of a genetics concept inventory
Modern science education reform includes the development of standards and recommendations for content as well as the development and evaluation of pedagogy, but demonstrates limited assessment of student knowledge. Student knowledge assessment is an important factor in measuring the scientific …
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Integrating Concepts in Modern Molecular Biology into a High School Biology Curriculum
More so than any other science in the past several decades, Biology has seen an explosion of new information and monumental discoveries that have had a profound impact on much more than the science itself. Much of this has occurred at the molecular level. Many of these modern concepts, ideas, and …
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A deliberate resurrection of matter : a transhumanist vision (Postmodern Science; the Deathly Grammar of word and Consciousness)
… descriptive engagement with the concept of 'post modern science', and will thus both quote and interpret scientific debate extensively. Although 'chaos' has been constituted as a formal discipline only after the publication of Gravity's Rainbow (GR), it has been included in the overview of …
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The dream in terminal illness : a Jungian case study
… of the mysteries of birth have been dispelled by modern science and medicine, death remains an enigma; the meaning of death and the question of what becomes of us after we stop functioning physically remain powerful concerns, anchored in antiquity. Nowhere are these concerns more manifest than in …
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