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Living science: Science as an activity of living beings

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2015
The philosophy of science should accommodate itself to the facts of human existence, using all aspects of human experience to adapt more effectively, as individuals, species, and global ecosystem. This has several implications: (1) Our nature as sentient beings interacting with other sentient beings requires the use of phenomenological methods to ...
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Lives of Science

Nature, 1967
Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology By Isaac Asimov. Pp. x + 662. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1967.) 63s.
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Lamarck's Science of Living Bodies

The British Journal for the History of Science, 1971
As a historical figure, Lamarck proves a rather difficult subject. His writings give us few explicit leads to his intellectual debts; nor do they present his theories as the outcome of any sustained course of observations or experimental research; and, what is equally frustrating, it is hard to see how his personal development as a scientific theorist ...
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Living well in light of science

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2016
This article discusses some findings of the modern science of happiness in the context of historical understandings of happiness. Comparing teachings of the ancient wisdom traditions to those of modern positive psychology and social science, I argue that there is surprising correspondence between the two. The happy life, both ancients and modern agree,
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Science Is Dead; Long Live Science

Osiris, 2012
Scholars nowadays generally accept that there is no single enterprise of “science”—that there is a multiplicity of special studies that are grouped together under that label. This article discusses a possible route by which to trace certain common cultural characteristics of modern science, rooted in a particular (and complex) relationship between ...
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Literature as Knowledge for Living, Literary Studies as Science for Living

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2010
In 2001, the official year of the “life sciences” in germany, ottmar ette began pulling together ideas for what was to become the programmatic essay excerpted and translated here. Ette is known for different things in different places: in Spain and Hispanic America, he is renowned for his work on José Martí, Jorge Semprún, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel ...
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Living in Environmental Science

Russian Meteorology and Hydrology, 2016
G.S. Golitsyn, a geophysicist of broad expertise, presents his way in environmental science and the detailed description of his research activity.
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