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"From the History of Philosophy to the History of Science: Hegel's influence on Whewell" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Il saggio pone in rilievo e ricostruisce l’influsso dell’approccio hegeliano alla Storia della filosofia sul pensiero di William Whewell. Questo aspetto, precedentemente ignorato dalla critica – anche perché lo studioso di Cambridge si presenta come ...
SANTI, RAFFAELLA
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Contradicting Kuhn's Popular Notion of Scientific Revolution: Conservative Revolutionaries in the History of Biology

open access: yesNatural Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Kant and Whewell on Bridging Principles between Metaphysics and Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Termos Coligatórios

open access: yesHistória da Historiografia
O objetivo deste artigo é introduzir e situar o leitor no debate sobre Termos Coligatórios, e ao mesmo tempo, identificar questões latentes do interesse da história e da filosofia que emergem desse tema.
Emanoela Agostini
doaj   +1 more source

I. Researches on the tides.—fourth seris. On the empirical laws of the tides in the port of Liverpool

open access: yesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
1. In the Philosophical Transactions for 1831 Mr. Lubbock published the results of a discussion of nineteen years of the London tide observations; and from the materials there given, I endeavoured to obtain the mathematical laws of the inequalities of ...
W. Whewell
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Epistemic injustice and the “Nature of Science”

open access: yesJournal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 901-941, April 2025.
Abstract Scientists and science educators have argued that learners (students, preservice teachers, and inservice teachers) should understand knowledge construction in science, in addition to figuring out disciplinary core ideas. Given this goal, some science education scholars created a construct called the “Nature of Science” (NOS), which aims to ...
David Stroupe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

MISFITS, POWER, AND HISTORY: RETHINKING ABILITY THROUGH AN ANIMAL LENS

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 75-95, March 2025.
ABSTRACT In this article, we construct a critical history of “ability” by focusing on the specific case study of dark‐dwelling animals and the ways in which they have been understood over the course of modernity. Such creatures were frequently the subjects of assumptions and judgments about what they could and could not do.
ANDREW FLACK, ALICE WOULD
wiley   +1 more source

SENSORY EXPERIMENTS, SENSORY ORDERS, AND AESTHETIC EDUCATION

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 146-155, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the ends of a sensory order in postbellum United States.
Premesh Lalu
wiley   +1 more source

Educational Technology: Opportunities and Challenges [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Emma Whewell shares the findings of Alastair Snook’s study on primary teachers’ use of educational technology, and the opportunities and challenges it presented during the ...
Whewell, Emma; id_orcid   +2 more
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The top‐down nature of ontological inquiry: Against pluralism about top‐down and bottom‐up approaches

open access: yesMetaphilosophy, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 35-51, January 2025.
Abstract Some philosophical pluralists argue that a top‐down and a bottom‐up approach serve as equally justified methods for engaging in ontological inquiry. In the top‐down approach, we start with an analysis of theory and extrapolate from there to the world.
Ragnar van der Merwe
wiley   +1 more source

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