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Education Sciences, 2020 This article constitutes a literature review, focusing on the idea of holistic learning, as found in key sources, and its essential contrasting with instrumentalist approaches to learning.
Terence Lovat
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The Tension between the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives and Epistemic Instrumentalism
Problemos, 2022 In this paper, I develop a critical assessment of epistemic instrumentalism as advocated by Kyle Stanford (2006). Epistemic instrumentalism is based on the claim that the criterion for the reliability of any theory is the absence of what Stanford calls ‘
Lisa Zorzato
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ON THE QUANTUM PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY POSTULATE
Filozofia i Nauka, 2022 This article analyses one of the trials aiming to bridge the incommensurability gap between special relativity and quantum mechanics in the form of postulating the quantum principle of relativity.
Jakub Kopyciński
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On the infl uence of “tales” on the economics methodology formation and their use in the teaching process (Part I) [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия «Экономика. Управление. Право», 2022 Introduction. This article is a justifi cation of the possibility of using tales to popularize economics, economic history and the history of economic thought. Theoretical analysis.
Cyril V. Fenin
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Investigating and Criticizing the Philosophical Foundations of M-Theory [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2023 Contemporary English physicist, Stephen Hawking, by authoring The Big Plan and introducing the M-theory, brought the long-running conflict between science and religion to a new level. Despite Hawking's claim of the ‘death of philosophy’, he has used some
Seyyed Aminollah Ahmadiani Moghaddam +1 more
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Fiction May Confront Theories. Locating Determinism of the Newspeak in G. Orwell’s 1984
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2021 The paper focuses on the relationships between theory and practice and the consequences of dislocating theory from practice as they are illustrated through fiction. The case study carried out here concerns an exemplary novel, Ninety Eighty-Four by George
Cătălin Constantinescu
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Re-Evaluation of Milton Friedman's View of Instrumentalism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفهThe effects of philosophical concepts can be seen in various fields of science. One of the areas of influence of philosophy on economics has been around methodological concepts and epistemology. It seems that prominent economists of the 20th century were
Payam Fazli
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How to foster scientists’ creativity
Creativity Studies, 2016 Scientific progress can be credited to creative scientists, who constantly ideate new theories and experiments. I explore how the three central positions in philosophy of science – scientific realism, scientific pessimism, and instrumentalism – are ...
Seungbae Park
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Más allá de la dicotomía realismo-instrumentalismo
Crítica, 2019 My main purpose is to show that (1) the standard characterization of instrumentalism (Duhem) fails to grasp adequately the complexity of the cognitive status of important scientific theories in the past, e.g.
Ricardo J. Gómez
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