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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"naturalists"”.
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Scientific naturalists and the government of the Royal Society 1850-1900
… was in the hand of the group of scientific naturalists who surrounded Thomas Huxley. Their personal ambitions and energetic support of the cause of' scientific naturalism contributed to an extremely vigourous phase of the Royal Society's history. A detailed coverage is provided of the …
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Naturalists’ Perspectives on the Use of Mobile Technology During a Nature Hike
<p>Naturalists act as our link between scientific knowledge and the public’s understanding of natural history and conservation efforts. In order for them to succeed, they need access to reference materials as well as up-to-date information (Mankin, Warner, & Anderson, 1999). Incorporating mobile …
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Aesthetics for Birds: Institutions, Artist-Naturalists, and Printmakers in American Ornithologies, from Alexander Wilson to John Cassin
… from 1812 to 1858: institutions, artist-naturalists, and printmakers. Each of these groups modeled a certain normative vision of illustration, promoting, producing, and publishing images that reflected their senses of what constituted good illustration. I argue that no single set of …
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Non-Naturalism and the Metaphysics of Normative Properties
Normative non-naturalists seem to be committed to a supervenience relation about the normative. This means that the normative necessarily varies with the non-normative, such that the normative features of a person or a thing cannot change if the non-normative features of that person or that thing …
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The pursuit of nature: defining natural histories in eighteenth-century Britain
… history, but I show how they were used by naturalists and, by extension, create a new way of understanding how eighteenth-century natural history, natural philosophy and other sciences were related. The first chapter is about the end of eighteenth-century natural history and looks at the …
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Natural history and British women writers, 1730-1830
… of the eighteenth century. During this time, naturalists drew analogies between natural and social orders, arranging “classes” and “kingdoms” in ways that naturalized cultural and national hierarchies. My manuscript, Natural History and British Women Writers, 1730-1830, argues that women, …
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Naturalizing epistemology : reconsidering Quine and Nietzsche
… naturalist, in contrast to other types of naturalists, rejects a priori methods and wants to replace those methods with a posteriori methods. Critics of replacement naturalism have questioned the plausibility of providing a normative epistemology account based solely on empirical methods. …
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O desenho botânico como forma de expressão artística na obra de Margaret Mee
… artists like Leonardo da Vinci and the romantic naturalists and poets like Humboldt and Goethe. From this view, the work of Margaret Mee is a case study about illustrations of vegetable species as a knowledge's way to botany which is joined to a sensible expression of the artist. Therefore, …
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Physical causes and rational belief: A problem for materialism?
… the possibility of rational inference. Since naturalists are committed not only to the view that nothing exists but nature, but are also to the truthfulness of the natural sciences, such an incompatibility, if shown to exist, would be very damaging. This argument has been put forward by …
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Practices of science and political economy between the State of Milan and the Italian Republic (1760s-1805)
… of Milanese reformers, public officers and naturalists towards mechanical arts and, in general, towards technology for the achievement of the felicità and utilità pubblica. Part III of the dissertation has been named "Spaces". It focuses on the travels of naturalists Domenico Vandelli, Paolo …
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Taking nature's pulse
… Using methods and tools of science, today's naturalists can record nature with precision-and through this, learn more about it. Ecologists now pay heed to the often-forgotten sense of hearing. The Tropical Ecology Lab at University of Puerto Rico, San Piedras, blurs the lines between natural …
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Spontaneous generation in the 1870s: Victorian scientific naturalism and its relationship to medicine.
… generation came from the Victorian scientific naturalists, especially John Tyndall, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution, London. This thesis provides an understanding of and explanations for the beliefs surrounding the spontaneous generation debate, particularly with regard …
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Varieties of Naturalized Epistemology: Criticisms and Alternatives
… standards. Second, while critics usually contest naturalists' logical right to use the concept of normative justification, I suggest that a deeper problem is with the naturalists' use of the concept of belief. Naturalistic philosophy of mind, while perhaps acceptable for other purposes, does not …
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Health and human nature: A naturalist's account of health and normality
The argument between naturalists and normativists about the notions of health, normality and disease has largely revolved around the fact-value distinction and the problem of the place of values in biomedical science. In this essay it is argued that the proper place for a naturalist to begin an …
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Natural science and the American government: fur seal management from gilded age to progressive era
… advice from scientists, and over the years naturalists studied the animals regularly. Despite this apparent cooperation, scientific recommendations rarely took precedence over other considerations. Fur seal history illuminates obstacles facing scientists as they tried, and failed, to control …
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Seeds of exchange: collecting for Russia's apothecary and botanical gardens in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… established by herbalists, doctors, and naturalists in the employ of the Apothecary (Medical) Chancellery and the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In doing so it investigates how methods of botanical collection, including specific itineraries, influenced the creation spaces of …
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A Sociological Study of Atheism and Naturalism as Minority Identities in Appalachia.
… Christian area. I hypothesized that atheists and naturalists would hold minority identities and feel subordinated or oppressed by the dominant group: Christians. Analyses of interviews provided strong support for the idea that the respondents experienced a minority identity in the sociological …
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The educational program in the national parks with particular reference to those in the western states
… to the visitor through the service of the park naturalists. The purpose of this thesis is to bring out the importance to the visitor of this educational service. It is my aim to present a clear picture of this educational work and to interpret the material gathered in the survey, and to comment …
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The Australian museum library - its formation, function and scientific contribution, 1836–1917
… identification of the dispersed libraries of naturalists Ludwig Leichhardt and William Swainson, as well as a study of the influence of the Australian Museum Library on the scientific activity of Australian Museum Curator, Gerard Krefft. At the methodological core of this thesis is a database …
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