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PSYCHIATRY, NATURE AND SCIENCE
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1960It is a purpose of philosophic analysis to clarify the meaning of concepts used in scientific discourse. An attempt to do so has been made here, with special reference to the value-terms used in psychiatry. Such terms as "mental health," "mental illness," "normal," "abnormal," "neurosis," "psychosis," "perversion," "psychopathic" or "sociopathic ...
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Sociology as a Natural Science
American Journal of Sociology, 1932Natural science is differentiated from other modes of knowledge by method, not by subject matter. The revolutionary concept that social phenomena are natural phenomena and therefore can be studied by natural-science methodology is being rapidly accepted.
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The sporting nature of science
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2010There are some intriguing analogies that can be drawn between sports and science. Both are very competitive and require a set of skills that take time to learn, practice, and master. Both involve some degree of experimentation and risk-taking by both the coach and the players. In science as in sports, the battle can be exhausting.
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Avoiding De-Natured Science: Integrating Nature of Science into Science Instruction
2020This chapter contains a rich set of classroom-tested student-centered activities that can be easily integrated into existing science curricula to teach required science content as well as NOS concepts. Here we offer several engaging experiences for science students as well as preservice and inservice teachers.
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Is Sociology a Natural Science?
American Journal of Sociology, 1949Sociologists have always tried to shape their science according to the model of the natural sciences. Critics of sociology object that sociology is not yet and never will be a science of this type. By "natural science" they mean physics, though they do not say so.
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On the Nature of Psychodynamic Science
The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, 2004In a previous article (Brookes, 2003), it was suggested that a science devoted to the subjective data obtained in psychodynamic therapy would require classification of psyche, the object of study, as a hypothetical construct, a classic concept in the philosophy of psychological science.
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2020
The description of the relationship between mathematics and physics is too brief to be based solely on content. Rather, it requires the meta-descriptions of both subjects, i.e. the discussion of what constitutes the individual sciences and how they come to their conclusions. Such meta-descriptions are also of high didactic relevance, since without them
Van Bien Nguyen, Simon Friedrich Kraus
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The description of the relationship between mathematics and physics is too brief to be based solely on content. Rather, it requires the meta-descriptions of both subjects, i.e. the discussion of what constitutes the individual sciences and how they come to their conclusions. Such meta-descriptions are also of high didactic relevance, since without them
Van Bien Nguyen, Simon Friedrich Kraus
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Naturalized philosophy of science and natural science education
Science & Education, 1993A major controversy in contemporary philosophy of science concerns the possibility and desirability of its ‘naturalization.’ In this paper I review the philosophical controversy concerning naturalism, and investigate the role it might play in the science classroom.
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Neuroscience, Science of Nature and Social Sciences
2016This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the study of Neurosciences, after the great revolution led by Dilthey in the last two decades. The term itself has multiple definitions, because of the different disciplines included within, bounded together by an interdisciplinary approach. All these scientific discoveries have caused not only unrest in the
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Natural Computing: A Natural and Timely Trend for Natural Sciences and Science of Computation
2007Natural computing refers to computation taking place in nature and to humandesigned computation inspired by nature. When complex phenomena going on in nature are viewed as computational processes, our understanding of these phenomena and of the essence of computation is enhanced.
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