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What is liberal about Adam Smith's “liberal plan”?
Southern Economic Journal, Volume 89, Issue 2, Page 593-610, October 2022., 2022 Abstract By the middle of the eighteenth century the word “liberal” had had multiple non‐political meanings. Adam Smith famously advances “the liberal plan” of political economy. In The Wealth of Nations he indicates several ways that his liberal plan is “liberal” in a non‐political sense.
Erik W. Matson
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The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2015 Inductivist theories of science dominated the landscape of the philosophy of science in nineteenth century Europe. This paper explores their vocation in late nineteenth and early twentieth century India.
Dhruv Raina
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The sources of Mill's views of ratiocination and induction [PDF]
, 2014 Steffen Ducheyne and John P. McCaskey (2014). “The Sources of Mill’s Views of Ratiocination and Induction,” in: Antis Loizides (ed.), John Stuart Mill’s ‘A System of Logic’: A Critical Guide (London, Routledge), pp.
Ducheyne, Steffen, McCaskey, John P
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Is it time to forget science? Reflections on singular science and its history [PDF]
, 2012 The name history of science refl ects a set of assumptions about what science is. Among them is the claim that science is a singular thing, a potentially unifi ed group of disciplines that share a common identity.
Golinski, Jan V.
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A CONSILIENCE OF EQUAL REGARD: STEPHEN JAY GOULD ON THE RELATION OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Zygon, 2021 This article offers a fresh assessment of the views of the American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould on the relation of science and religion.
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The Dickens Universe: Gazing at the Heavens
E-REA, 2016 Stars and other astronomical references play a significant part in Charles Dickens’s writings, from the 1830s to the end of his career. He took an interest in contemporary discoveries and theories in astronomy, but also uses cosmic phenomena in ...
Dominic RAINSFORD
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Not thinking about science and religion [PDF]
, 2002 [FIRST PARAGRAPH] Willem B. Drees, Religion, Science and Naturalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). xvi + 314 pp., ISBN: 0-521-64562-X.
Topham, J.R.
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Technopoïesis: Transmedia Mythologisation and the Unity of Knowedge
La Revista Icono 14, 2017 It is difficult to explain why different disciplines are drawn to similar problems. Inter-relations are not always explainable by direct influence.
Asunción López-Varela Azcárate +1 more
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, 2021 Kinds that share historical properties are dubbed “historical kinds” or “etiological kinds,” and they have some distinctive features. I will try to characterize etiological kinds in general terms a..
Khalidi, Muhammad Ali
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Complexity, Post-Structuralism, and Consilience [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex SystemsEpistemological questions about knowledge of complex systems are not addressed as often as ontological questions about what complex systems are. As with many philosophical issues, one can identify two approaches to answering the former type of question ...
Ragnar van der Merwe
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