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Post-Genocide, Post-Apartheid: The Shifting Landscapes of African Philosophy, 1994–2019

open access: yesModern Africa, 2021
This article traces the developments of African philosophy since 1994, a year marked by two events that profoundly impacted Africa: the fall of apartheid and the Rwandan genocide.
Alena Rettová
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Passive and Reciprocal Networks: From Simple Models to Simple Optimal Controllers [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE Control Systems, 2022
Can simple systems be regulated by simple controllers? Engineering experience indicates that this is often the case. Certainly, the overwhelming majority of industrially deployed controllers are proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers, many of
R. Pates
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The impact of teachers' educational philosophy tendencies on their curriculum autonomy [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Pedagogical Research, 2022
In this study, the effect of teachers' educational philosophy tendencies on their curriculum autonomy was investigated using a correlational research design.
Melek Alemdar, Alper Aytaç
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Simple Models in Complex Worlds: Occam’s Razor and Statistical Learning Theory

open access: yesMinds and Machines, 2022
The idea that “simplicity is a sign of truth”, and the related “Occam’s razor” principle, stating that, all other things being equal, simpler models should be preferred to more complex ones, have been long discussed in philosophy and science.
Falco J. Bargagli-Stoffi   +2 more
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Philosophy and Philology: Two Approaches of Commentating the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Classic of the Materia Medica) in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

open access: yesChinese Medicine and Culture, 2023
This paper tests the hypothesis that the commentary trend of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Classic of the Materia Medica) arises alongside the fashionable philology of the time, or the aversion against the Jin-Yuan medical philosophy.
Che-chia CHANG
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McTaggart’s Paradox and Philosophy of Time

open access: yesJournal of Ethics in Higher Education, 2023
Asking “What is time?” can be both a simple and a profound question. In this article we intend to introduce the reader to the philosophy of time. To do so, we will deal with McTaggart's paradox.
Sergi Tauler
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Damage detection in large composite stiffened panels based on a novel SHM building block philosophy

open access: yes, 2021
This paper proposes a structural health monitoring (SHM) building block (BB) approach for guided wave based structural health monitoring (GWSHM) of large composite stiffened panel subjected to varying temperature conditions. The proposed approach follows
Nan Yue, Z. S. Khodaei, M. H. Aliabadi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Understanding probability and irreversibility in the Mori-Zwanzig projection operator formalism [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 12, 41 (2022), 2021
Explaining the emergence of stochastic irreversible macroscopic dynamics from time-reversible deterministic microscopic dynamics is one of the key problems in philosophy of physics. The Mori-Zwanzig projection operator formalism, which is one of the most important methods of modern nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, allows for a systematic ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Philosophy of Science and Philosophy: The Long Flight Home

open access: yesAxiomathes, 2021
In this article, I argue that there is philosophy of science since philosophy existed. Thus, the idea that the philosophy of science was born with neopositivism is historically wrong and detrimental to the development of the philosophy of science itself.
A. Marcos
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