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Epistemic injustice and the “Nature of Science”
Journal 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 ...
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Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology
, 2009 A leading British intellectual of the Victorian era, William Whewell (1794-1866) was a contemporary and adviser of Herschel, Darwin and Faraday. A geologist, astronomer, theologian and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, he was best known for his works
William Whewell
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História da HistoriografiaO 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
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, 2009 This controversial essay, first published in 1853, addresses the question of the existence of intelligent life on other planets. It was first published anonymously, owing to the ferocity of the ongoing debates between the religious and scientific ...
William Whewell
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MISFITS, POWER, AND HISTORY: RETHINKING ABILITY THROUGH AN ANIMAL LENS
History 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
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SENSORY EXPERIMENTS, SENSORY ORDERS, AND AESTHETIC EDUCATION
History 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
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Metaphilosophy, 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
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The positive philosophy by William Whewell: Between inductivism and apriorism
, 2018 One can notice a certain deficiency of conceptual resources in contemporary epistemology and philosophy of science. The popularity of post-positivist philosophy is dropping; and the postmodern studies have difficulty adapting to the analysis of ...
Kasavin, Ilya T. +1 more
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Decolonizing the Muslim mind: A philosophical critique
The Philosophical Forum, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 353-375, Winter 2024.Abstract The crises of the Islamic world revolve around “epistemic colonialism.” So, in order to decolonize the Muslim mind, we must be able to deconstruct the Western episteme, and this involves dissociating ourselves from the Eurocentric knowledge system that gradually became ascendent since the Renaissance through such ideas as progress and ...
Muhammad U. Faruque
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Slavery's absence from histories of moral and political philosophy
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 62, Issue S1, Page 54-67, September 2024.Abstract At a time when many institutions of higher learning are reflecting on their past complicity with chattel slavery, either in terms of the sources of their funding or their use of slave labor, philosophy as an academic discipline has been largely silent about its own complicity. Questions surrounding the legitimacy and practice of slavery were a
Robert Bernasconi
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