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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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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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Judicial Biography in the National Security Constitution: Lord Diplock and a ‘Rather Silly Little Secret Racket’

The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 3, Page 604-639, May 2024.
This article considers the extra‐judicial work of Lord Diplock in the domain of national security in the context of his life and judicial work. It first considers briefly the role of judicial biography in understanding the work of judges and then the particular considerations which apply to such biography in the context of national security law and ...
Paul F. Scott
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Crafting and collecting cyanotypes: Anna Atkins's Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions

Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1-3, January-March 2024.
Abstract This essay reads Anna Atkins's Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843–1853) as an example of Victorian imitative art by reading it through the lens of Victorian domestic handicraft. It does so in order to resituate Atkins's work within the history of scientific visualization and to contribute to the increasing complexity ...
Sophia Franchi
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Diseño-arte-ciencia: perspectivas transdisciplinares en ámbitos de la formación doctoral

La Tadeo DeArte
Diseño, arte, ciencia: perspectivas transdisciplinares en ámbitos de la formación doctoral presenta los procesos investigativos que se han llevado a cabo para proponer y estructurar un programa de formación doctoral de carácter latinoamericano en el ...
Felipe César Londoño L., Adriana Gómez Alzate   +1 more
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Reseña: The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Trasformed Science and Changed the World. New York, Broadway Books.

Revista Tiempo & Economía, 2016
Laura Snyder ha elaborado una obra de filosofía e historia de la ciencia que no puede pasar desaperciba por los economistas y mucho menos por los historiadores económicos, en especial de aquellos dedicados a la historia del pensamiento económico.
Julián Libreros
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Remarks on mathematical reasoning, & c. - a supplement to the fourth edition of Dr. Whewell's mechanical Euclid; containing the omitted portions of the third edition

by William Whewell ; Remarks on mathematical reasoning, & c. - a supplement to the fourth edition of Dr. Whewell's mechanical Euclid; containing the omitted portions of the third editionExlibrisetikette: "Legat von Herrn Professor J. G.
Whewell, William
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On the probable importance of tide observations at the Cape of Good Hope

South African Quarterly Journal
This scientific paper, communicated by Sir John Herschel and read before the South African Literary and Scientific Institution in May 1835, argues for the strategic value of the Cape of Good Hope as a primary station for tidal research. The author posits
W. Whewell
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The Future of Hybrid Narratology in «Alice Adventures in Wonderland»

1616, 2016
In 2015 we have celebrated the anniversaries of the publication of Alice Adventures in Wonderland, one of the master works of World Literature, a work that shows a wish to unite knowledge from diverse disciplines in order to create a unified frame of ...
Asunción LÓPEZ VARELA
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