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Probabilistic empiricism. [PDF]
Eur J Philos SciAbstract Modal Empiricism in philosophy of science proposes to understand the possibility of modal knowledge from experience by replacing talk of possible worlds with talk of possible situations, which are coarse-grained, bounded and relative to background conditions.
Ruyant Q, Suárez M.
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Becoming war: Towards a martial empiricism
Security Dialogue, 2020 Under the banner of martial empiricism, we advance a distinctive set of theoretical and methodological commitments for the study of war. Previous efforts to wrestle with this most recalcitrant of phenomena have sought to ground research upon primary ...
Antoine Bousquet +2 more
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Chemistry Education Research—From Personal Empiricism to Evidence, Theory, and Informed Practice
Chemical Reviews, 2018 This Review of Chemistry Education Research (CER) provides an overview of the development of research in chemistry education from the early days, when ideas about how to teach chemistry and help students learn were guided by practitioner wisdom, to ...
Melanie M Cooper, Ryan L Stowe
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Cultural Anthropology, 2012 Uncorrected proof. Supplemental material: http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/633 ; In this article, which takes James Clifford and George Marcus’s Writing Culture as its starting point, I make the case for a kinky kind of empiricism that builds on the singular power of anthropological ways of knowing the world.
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From empiricism to rational design: a personal perspective of the evolution of vaccine development
Nature Reviews Immunology, 2014 Vaccination, which is the most effective medical intervention that has ever been introduced, originated from the observation that individuals who survived a plague or smallpox would not get the disease twice.
Rino Rappuoli
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Rationalism, Empiricism, and Evidence-Based Medicine: A Call for a New Galenic Synthesis
Medicines, 2018 Thirty years after the rise of the evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement, formal training in philosophy remains poorly represented among medical students and their educators. In this paper, I argue that EBM’s reception in this context has resulted
William M. Webb
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On Knowing and Seeing: Groundwork for a New Empiricism
Grazer Philosophische Studien, 2021 This is a discussion note on Michael Ayers’ Knowing and Seeing. Groundwork for a New Empiricism.
Mira Magdalena Sickinger
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The Scientific Approach to Risk and the Risk Concept of Science [PDF]
Sociální Pedagogika, 2015 The paper “The Scientific Approach to Risk and the Risk Concept of Science” attempts to analyze the relationship between two problematic concepts of empiricism in present-day science (primitive empiricism, brutal empiricism), two characteristics of ...
Bohuslav
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‘Field notes: contemporary art history as historiography’. Review of: Terry Smith, Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019 [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2022 Terry Smith characterizes Art to Come as a work of art historiography. The eleven chapters that comprise Art to Come–including several previously published essays by Smith–are primarily concerned with describing and analyzing art produced in the past few
Elizabeth Mansfield
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Radical empiricism and machine learning research
Journal of Causal Inference, 2021 I contrast the “data fitting” vs “data interpreting” approaches to data science along three dimensions: Expediency, Transparency, and Explainability. “Data fitting” is driven by the faith that the secret to rational decisions lies in the data itself.
J. Pearl
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