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Algebraic symbolism as a conceptual barrier in learning mathematics [PDF]

, 2013
The use of symbolism in mathematics is probably the mostly quoted reason people use for explaining their lack of understanding and difficulties in learning mathematics. We will consider symbolism as a conceptual barrier drawing on some recent findings in
Heeffer, Albrecht
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ON THE TRANSDISCIPLINARY NATURE OF THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF DISCOVERY

Zygon, 1991
. Despite the by now historical tendency to demarcate scientific epistemology sharply from virtually all others, especially theological “epistemology,” it has recently been recognized that both enterprises share a great deal in common, at least as far ...
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Rewriting the Matrix of Life. Biomedia Between Ecological Crisis and Playful Actions

communication +1, 2014
The paper discusses concepts of ‘nature’ and ‘life’ as subjected to historical changes. The 21st century seems to be obsessed with ‘life’ and ‘nature’, which are reconfigured as objects of simulation practices and of a multitude of technoscientific ...
Christoph Neubert, Serjoscha Wiemer
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Comment faire du vaudou avec l’imagerie cérébrale fonctionnelle ?

Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2013
Starting with the debate on “Voodoo correlations in social neuroscience”, the paper presents an STS-inspired epistemological analysis of functional neuroimaging.
Cornelius Borck
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Elaborating Aquinas' epistemology: From being to knowledge [PDF]

, 2017
Amidst the broad divergence in opinion of philosophers and scientists at understanding reality that has lent character to the historical epochs of the Philosophical enterprise, the crucial realization has always been, of the necessity of Epistemology in ...
Anakwue, Nicholas
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Scientific Methodology: A View from Early String Theory [PDF]

, 2018
This paper addresses the question as to whether the methodology followed in building and assessing string theory can be considered scientific in the same sense, say, that the methodology followed in building and assessing the Standard Model of particle ...
Castellani, Elena
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How Critical is Realism? [PDF]

, 2012
The author explores the role of critical realism as the dominant epistemology in the science-and-religion dialogue. He presents the historical and philosophical peculiarities of this approach that have lead to its preeminence.
Maslowe, Gregory A.
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O problema do estilo em epistemologia: entre sociologia das ciências e epistemologia histórica

Revista Interdisciplinar em Cultura e Sociedade, 2019
O termo estilo de pensamento foi empregado por precursores tanto da “sociologia do conhecimento”, como Mannheim, quanto da “sociologia das ciências”, como Ludwik Fleck.
CAIO SOUTO
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The Concept in Life and the Life of the Concept: Canguilhem’s Final Reckoning with Bergson

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2016
Foucault famously divided the history of twentieth-century French philosophy between a “philosophy of experience” and a “philosophy of the concept,” placing Bergson in the former camp and his teacher Canguilhem in the latter. This division has shaped the
Alex Feldman
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Methodological trends in Islamic Historiography [PDF]

تاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2013
The method is closely related to the view point of to the subject of a scientific knowledge. So that, the Methodological features of a knowledge or science should be sought from the type of approach to this subject.
Naser Sedghi
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