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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"scientific theories"”.
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Incommensurability and scientific progress : an essay concerning the nature of the relation between successive scientific theories
… Logical Empiricist and Popperian conceptions of scientific progress is presented. The major criticism made against them is that, contrary to fact, they require that successive scientific theories either contain or explicitly negate parts of each other.In the second part an alternative conception …
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Undergraduates’ Preparedness for College-Level Work in STEM: The Importance of Reading and Understanding Scientific Theories, Arguments, and Data
… students’ reading comprehension of a difficult scientific article. For that purpose, we investigated students understanding of text material on Earth’s magnetism, across media. The assessment included reading a published article and assessment of comprehension, content knowledge and scientific …
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The Fertility of Theories
… adequacy and compatibility with other current theories, scientific theories are commonly judged on three criteria ' simplicity, elegance, and fertility. Fertility has received comparatively little attention in the philosophical literature. A definition of a certain sort of fertility, called …
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Mathematics, time, and confirmation
… two issues about abstract objects: their role in scientific theories, and their relation to time. Chapter 1, "Why Apply Mathematics?" argues that scientific theories are not about the mathematics that is applied in them, and defends this thesis against the Quine-Putnam Indispensability Argument. …
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Towards a Mapping Account of Applicability: An Exposition, Explanation, and Justification of the Representational Conception of Applied Mathematics
… is given for showing how it is that we can state scientific theories in such a way that platonistic mathematics does not appear as part of scientific theories. This is essential, since although the previous chapter argued that such genuine explanations are impossible, it did not show positively …
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Framework theories in science
… thesis consists of three papers on the nature of scientific theories and inference. In many cases, scientific theories can be regarded as organized into hierarchies, with higher levels sometimes called 'paradigms', and lower levels encoding more specific or concrete hypotheses. The first chapter …
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On Inter-Theoretic Relations and Scientific Realism
… debates in the philosophy of science: namely, scientific realism, emergence, and theoretical equivalence. The thesis brings logico-semantic tools of the analytic tradition—about syntactic and semantic construals of theories, and about extensions and intensions—to bear on these debates. The …
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The Beat's Interior
… between music and architecture. Influenced by scientific theories of cosmic space and the philosophical ideas of space and rhythm, this installation becomes an immersive experience within a constructed form. Original video is mapped onto the skin of the dome using four projectors that are …
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Clusters' last stand: Toward a theory of the process of meaning-making in science
… its alleged consequence, the incomparability of scientific theories--which presumably threatens the rationality, objectivity, and progress of science. In this project, I argue that a new and revised cluster theory can be articulated, which meets the objections typically raised against (i) …
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How can art change the meaning of the city? : an examination of an installation in a public setting, Compton Court, M.I.T.
… including philosophical, sociological and scientific theories; planners and architects have also looked towards definitions of the urban environment which have included theories of perception and cognition. Sculptors are challenging the assigned role to public institutions, in terms of the …
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From Victorian Doubt to American Deconstruction: Exploring Faith Crises Across Time and Geography
… The Victorian crisis emerged amidst scientific advancements, theological debates, and shifting societal norms, prompting intellectuals to grapple with doubts about traditional Christian beliefs. Prominent figures publicly challenged religious orthodoxy, while evolving scientific …
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A Sociological Exploration of Modern /Colonial Cosmology and Food
… In modern chemical research on nutrition, the scientific methods have been reductionistic in that a nutritional scientist can only break a given food down into its component parts, measured in chemicals, and study them one by one, even if complex interactions and contexts might be ignored. Such …
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Rites of passage as the basis of programme development for young people at risk in South Africa
… from the perspectives of a range of social scientific theories in order to assess the value in these processes tor young people at risk in South Africa. The central findings of this study suggest that it is possible to reinstate rites of passage in the form of a de-labelling programme, but …
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Oracle at Weehawken: Alexander Hamilton and development of the administrative state
… theory of public administration with the sterile scientific theories of administration advanced in the twentieth century. Though modern American public administration is usually thought of as a product of the early twentieth-century reform era, many ideas articulated during the founding period …
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Progress In Scientific Revolutions: The Problem Of Semantic Incommensurability
If two successive theories are semantically incommensurable, we have no way to make a complete comparison of their contents. If so, we have no way to verify that the highly confirmed content of the successor is greater than that of its predecessor, and we cannot verify that scientific knowledge has …
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From thought to action
… prominent role in neuroscience that could unify scientific theories, experimental evidence, and medical development. In this three-part work, I study the neural representation of targets before reaching movements and the generation of prosthetic control signals through stochastic modeling and …
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Precept and practice in science an examination of some objections to theories of scientific method
… 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 progressively grows. Although no particular methodology of …
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Kind Girls, Evil Sisters, And Wise Women: Coded Gender Discourse In Literary Fairy Tales By German Women In The 19th Century
… century, such as pedagogy for women and girls, scientific theories of gender difference, and the role of women workers in society. These women writers utilized fairy tales as a vehicle for entering into these controversial discourses while still publishing under the respectable guise of fairy …
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Jock Macdonald : the search for the universal truth in nature
… in relation to the influence of significant scientific discoveries. A close study of his oeuvre reveals that his pictorial vocabulary of archetypal forms corresponds to a tradition of morphological research in biology and that his treatment of pictorial space was informed by scientific …
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