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Whewell’s Tidal Researches: Scientific Practise and Philosophical Methodology [PDF]

, 2009
Primarily between 1833 and 1840, Whewell attempted to accomplish what natural philosophers and scientists since at least Galileo had failed to do: to provide a systematic and broad-ranged study of the tides and to attempt to establish a general ...
Steffen Ducheyne, Ducheyne, Steffen, Ducheyne, S.   +2 more
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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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History of the Inductive Sciences

, 2010
A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794–1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, before becoming Master of the college in 1841.
William Whewell
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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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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, Henry Sussman   +1 more
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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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The Reception of Positivism in Whewell, Mill and Brentano [PDF]

, 2022
peer reviewedThis article compares and contrasts the reception of Comte’s positivism in the works of William Whewell, John Stuart Mill and (to a lesser extent) Franz Brentano.
Dewalque, Arnaud
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Complexity, Post-Structuralism, and Consilience [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems
Epistemological 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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Revisão pelos Pares Aberta e Ciência Aberta na Comunidade de Pesquisa em Negócios

RAC: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, 2019
É inegável que a revisão pelos pares é a pedra angular da ciência, mas a qualidade e a eficiência do processo editorial dependem de uma estrutura complexa caracterizada por colaboração em grande escala, além de ser sensível a motivações, incentivos e ...
Wesley Mendes-Da-Silva
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Kant and Whewell on Bridging Principles between Metaphysics and Science [PDF]

, 2008
In this essay, I call attention to Kant’s and Whewell’s attempt to provide bridging principles between a priori principles and scientific laws. Part of Kant’s aim in the Opus postumum (ca.
Ducheyne, Steffen
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