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A Conceptual Approach to Library History: Towards a History of Open Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article argues that Library History ought to be guided by well-contextualized questions of cultural history. It proposes one such question: that which asks after the ways in which repositories of knowledge were created, organized and used in the ...
LS Geschiedenis nieuwere wijsbegeerte   +3 more
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Congruence in European and Asian perception of Vietnamese facial attractiveness, averageness, symmetry and sexual dimorphism

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Attractiveness is a proposed universal cue to overall biological quality. Nonetheless, local raters and raters of the same ethnicity may be more accurate in assessing the cues for attractiveness than distant and unfamiliar raters.
Ondřej Pavlovič   +2 more
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Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present.

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Philosophy of history as a philosophy

open access: yesVestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2020
The article presents the authors’ vision of the formation of the “philosophy of history” as a form of philosophical knowledge. Analyzing the retrospective of its formation in the first part of the article, the interpretation of the “philosophy of history” is given not as one of the sections of philosophy in general, but as one of its modes in the ...
Alexey M. Sokolov, Nikita V. Kuznetsov
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Environmental convergence in facial preferences: a cross-group comparison of Asian Vietnamese, Czech Vietnamese, and Czechs

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
It has been demonstrated that sociocultural environment has a significant impact on human behavior. This contribution focuses on differences in the perception of attractiveness of European (Czech) faces as rated by Czechs of European origin, Vietnamese ...
Ondřej Pavlovič   +2 more
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Aligning Patient’s Ideas of a Good Life with Medically Indicated Therapies in Geriatric Rehabilitation Using Smart Sensors

open access: yesSensors, 2021
New technologies such as smart sensors improve rehabilitation processes and thereby increase older adults’ capabilities to participate in social life, leading to direct physical and mental health benefits.
Cristian Timmermann   +3 more
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Wiktor Schramm’s voice in the discussion on the use of the Josephine cadastre in the study of agriculture and agricultural technology in Galicia in the 18th century (W. Schramm, “Rolnictwo polskie u schyłku XVIII wieku na tle metryk józefińskich,” Poznań

open access: yesZeszyty Wiejskie, 2023
Wiktor Schramm (1885–1958) was a scholar and educator born in Olchowa and living in Poznań. He was a professor at the University of Poznań, its pro-rector, as well as the founder (1919) and head of the Department of Agricultural Economics (initially ...
Małgorzata Łapa, Sebastian Latocha
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Left Radicalism and the Milky Way: Connecting the Scientific and Socialist Virtues of Anton Pannekoek [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960) was both an influential Marxist and an innovative astronomer. This paper will analyse the various innovative methods that he developed to represent the visual aspect of the Milky Way and the statistical distribution of stars ...
Tai, Chaokang   +4 more
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Experimental philosophy and the history of philosophy [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2017
Contemporary experimental philosophers sometimes use versions of an argument from the history of philosophy to defend the claim that what they do is philosophy. Although experimental philosophers conduct surveys and carry out what appear to be experiments in psychology, making them methodologically different from most analytic philosophers working ...
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