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This study aimed to describe and compare the effects of the IB-NOSA and Discovery Learning models on scientific literacy and scientific argumentation skills of tenth-grade high school students, as well as to examine the significant differences between ...
Nur Rezki Octavia +4 more
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Philosophers in Public Policy Commissions
ABSTRACT What role should philosophers play in public policy, especially in structured contexts like policy commissions? The commission paradigm is a formal governmental setting for discussion aimed at policy recommendations. However, it may not be obvious what philosophers (predominantly normative theorists but also others like philosophers of science)
Kian Mintz‐Woo
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Abstract Managing wildfire risk requires consideration of complex and uncertain scientific evidence as well as trade‐offs between different values and goals. Conflicting perspectives on what values and goals are most important, what ought to be done and what trade‐offs are acceptable complicate those decisions.
Pele J. Cannon, Sarah Clement
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Abstract Enstatite chondrites record highly reducing conditions in the early solar nebula, yet the origin of their abundant sulfides remains unclear. Niningerite (MgS) and oldhamite (CaS) are ubiquitous in EH3 enstatite chondrites and distinguish them from other chondrite groups.
N. Imae
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Explicit Methodologies for Normative Evaluation in Public Policy, as Applied to Carbon Budgets
ABSTRACT What could philosophical or justice perspectives contribute to climate (and other applied philosophy) policy discussions? This question is important for philosophers on government policy committees. This article identifies two novel concerns about such contexts (which I call ‘contingent selection’ and ‘committee deference’) and systematizes ...
Kian Mintz‐Woo
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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
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Within quantum chemistry, density functional theory (DFT) is a revolution. This serves as an example of a multitude of other scientific events, supporting the idea that revolutions are always large, if observed with the appropriate magnification. ABSTRACT Distinguishing scientific revolutions from normal science is a subjective, conflicting matter ...
Sebastian Kozuch
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ABSTRACT Proposing the concept of a conservative revolutionary generally and using the examples of Gregor Mendel, Max Delbrück, and Eric Davidson, I fundamentally call into question Thomas Kuhn's ideas of scientific revolutions. I also highlight some problematic consequences of the increasing appreciation of Kuhn's work among scientists and show that ...
Ute Deichmann
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Argumentation-Based Contract Monitoring in Uncertain Domains [PDF]
Few existing argumentation frameworks are designed to deal with probabilistic knowledge, and none are designed to represent possibilistic knowledge, making them unsuitable for many real world domains.
Preece, Alun David +6 more
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The Toulmin Model of Argumentation
Bu çalışmanın amacı Toulmin'in Tartışma modelini ayrıntılı bir şekilde incelemektir. 1922'de Londra-İngiltere'de doğan Toulmin, informal mantık ve retorik kuramının günümüzdeki öncülerindendir.
Habibe Aldağ
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