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The Kelvin dictum and social science: An excursion into the history of an idea

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 1984
Lord Kelvin's dictum on the importance of measurement in science is frequently quoted (and more frequently misquoted). One version is to be found on the facade of the University of Chicago's Social Science Research Building. An impromptu excursion into the history and uses of this inscription sheds light on the roles of measurement and quotation in ...
R K, Merton, D L, Sills, S M, Stigler
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An overview of themes in the agrarian and environmental history of the Karoo since c.1800§

African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 2018
This article explores some themes in the agrarian and environmental history of the Karoo since 1800. It argues that environmental change cannot be understood without incorporating social, economic and political history.
William Beinart
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Teleology and the organism: Kant's controversial legacy for contemporary biology.

Studies in history and philosophy of science, 2022
This paper distinguishes two ways in which Kant's ideas concerning the relation between teleology and biological organization have been taken up in contemporary philosophy of biology and theoretical biology.
A. Gambarotto, Auguste Nahas
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Science Fiction and the Idea of History

2016
Just over half-way through his juvenile novel, Citizen of the Galaxy, Robert Heinlein gets his hero Thorby involved in a play. The play is a historical one, dramatising the origins of the queer, nomadic, matriarchal, spaceship-society of Free Traders among whom Thorby now finds himself, and is to be produced publicly at their great Gathering. But it is
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Science and the Idea of Church History, an American Debate

Church History, 1967
Students of American historiography value the latter part of the nineteenth century as a period in which distinctive ideas about the nature and procedures of historical research became explicit. More specifically, it was an era when the scholarly world was greatly influenced by the ideal of scientific objectivity and exactitude.
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The History and Afterlife of Soviet Demography: The Socialist Roots of Post-Soviet Neoliberalism

Slavic Review: Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, 2019
The discourse on the demographic crisis in contemporary Russia resonates with a neoliberal political project that attempts to govern populations through the market logic of optimization, responsibilization, and efficacy.
I. Leykin
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Two Stories and Ten Theses on Teaching the Science/Knowledge Divide in Global History

Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics
:This essay uses the parable of "The Blind Men and the Elephant" alongside two vignettes relating to the British and American Empires to explore a series of propositions about the world in terms of teaching the science/knowledge divide in global history.
H. Tilley
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Art, Science, and the History of Ideas

1996
The abstract artist Piet Mondrian wrote in 1937 For there are “made” laws, “discovered” laws, but also laws—a truth for all time. These are more or less hidden in the reality which surrounds us and do not change. Not only science but art also, shows us that reality, at first incomprehensible, gradually reveals itself, by the mutual relations that are ...
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The History of Science and the Idea of an Oscillating Universe

1977
At the Spring 1974 meeting of the American Physical Society in Chicago, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, an astrophysicist from Princeton, read a paper1 which made news all over the United States. In view of the particular problem which gave rise to the paper, the excitement should have seemed out of proportion.
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The Map of Western Studies for the Russian Civilization

Bulletin of the State University of Education. Series: History and Political Sciences
Aim.  Systematic critique of the Western epistemological hegemony and universalist claims expressed in the imposition of the Western criteria of development and progress as the only true ones for the whole world.Methodology.
A. Dugin
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