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Counterfactual and consilience
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2023In the spirit of this exchange’s call for more “methodological talk” in explanation, I suggest that polyphonic disunity that has prompted persistent calls in economic geography for some form of unificatory explanation may be pursued through opportunities in counterfactual and consilience explanations.
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Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 2014
Abstract A question currently facing evolutionary literary study is how to implement consilient practices in the classroom. By definition, consilient study involves application of the scientific method to literary analysis and other interpretive fields that traditionally fall under the humanities umbrella.
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Abstract A question currently facing evolutionary literary study is how to implement consilient practices in the classroom. By definition, consilient study involves application of the scientific method to literary analysis and other interpretive fields that traditionally fall under the humanities umbrella.
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2018
This final chapter focusses on the question of how insights gained from multiple disciplines can be brought together or colligated into a deeper and more satisfying vision of the world. It specifically engages the question of whether it is irrational to hold beliefs which are developed through the use of different rational strategies and criteria—for ...
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This final chapter focusses on the question of how insights gained from multiple disciplines can be brought together or colligated into a deeper and more satisfying vision of the world. It specifically engages the question of whether it is irrational to hold beliefs which are developed through the use of different rational strategies and criteria—for ...
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Popularization and Consilience
2021Abstract Social science makes its way into public debate, raising concerns about publicity-seeking scholarship but also opening up potential benefits for engagement across disciplines and society. Social science debates are no longer, if they ever were, confined to universities and obscure journals; they are now central parts of popular ...
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Whewell on classification and consilience
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2017In this paper I sketch William Whewell's attempts to impose order on classificatory mineralogy, which was in Whewell's day (1794-1866) a confused science of uncertain prospects. Whewell argued that progress was impeded by the crude reductionist assumption that all macroproperties of crystals could be straightforwardly explained by reference to the ...
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Scientific American, 2015
The article discusses popular attitudes towards climate change and anthropogenic global warming (AGW). According to the author, there is a scientific consensus on the reality of AGW supported by a convergence of independently-researched evidence. Details on literature reviews of scientific studies, which show that most research supports AGW and that ...
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The article discusses popular attitudes towards climate change and anthropogenic global warming (AGW). According to the author, there is a scientific consensus on the reality of AGW supported by a convergence of independently-researched evidence. Details on literature reviews of scientific studies, which show that most research supports AGW and that ...
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2003
Abstract This chapter argues that the corrective justice account of tort law illuminates not only tort law, but also the connection between our institutions of corrective and distributive justice. It helps us understand the requirements of fairness in keeping track of the cost of life’s misfortunes more generally.
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Abstract This chapter argues that the corrective justice account of tort law illuminates not only tort law, but also the connection between our institutions of corrective and distributive justice. It helps us understand the requirements of fairness in keeping track of the cost of life’s misfortunes more generally.
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Consilient Literary Interpretation
Philosophy and Literature, 2002Argues for an approach to literary thematics that seeks a systematic conceptual integration with adjacent disciplines concerned with the question of human nature.
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