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A controvérsia sobre as estradas paralelas de Glen Roy: uma justificação dos procedimentos de Darwin
Uma importante categoria filosófica conceitual para a compreensão de uma produção científica é a noção de autoridade cognitiva; autoridades atuam como agentes causais de certas produções científicas.
Marcos Rodrigues da Silva
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How to be a good reviewer: A step-by-step guide for approaching peer review of a scientific manuscript. [PDF]
Although the peer review process is critical to maintaining quality, reliability, novelty, and innovation in the scientific literature, the teaching of scientific peer review is rarely a component of formal scientific or clinical training, and even the most experienced peer reviewers express interest in continuing education.
Sedaghat AR +5 more
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The purposes of descriptive psychology
Abstract In this paper, I discuss the different views of the founders of descriptive psychology in the 19th century about the meaning and purpose of this discipline and sketch a new plan for connecting descriptive psychology with the language‐critical tradition of analytic philosophy.
Johannes L. Brandl
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Apresentamos um exame sobre a distinção entre os “contextos” da descoberta e da justificação a partir de algumas concepções de William Whewell (1794-1866).
Leonardo Rogério Miguel +1 more
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Pioneer naturalists such as Whewell, Lyell, Humboldt, Darwin and Wallace acknowledged the interactions between ecological and evolutionary forces, as well as the roles of continental movement, mountain formation and climate variations, in shaping biodiversity patterns.
Oskar Hagen
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Abstract There is a classical paradox in education that also affects the epistemic virtues: the paradox inherent in the demand to develop general strategies for training persons to be free and creative individuals. This problem becomes particularly salient with respect to the epistemic virtue of creativity, the more so if we consider a radical form of ...
Paul Ziche
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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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What is liberal about Adam Smith's “liberal plan”?
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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A CONSILIENCE OF EQUAL REGARD: STEPHEN JAY GOULD ON THE RELATION OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION
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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