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"From the History of Philosophy to the History of Science: Hegel's influence on Whewell" [PDF]
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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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
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Kant and Whewell on Bridging Principles between Metaphysics and Science [PDF]
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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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
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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
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Epistemic injustice and the “Nature of Science”
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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MISFITS, POWER, AND HISTORY: RETHINKING ABILITY THROUGH AN ANIMAL LENS
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
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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Educational Technology: Opportunities and Challenges [PDF]
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 ...
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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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