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Perspectival Realism

Author : Michela Massimi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197555624
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Perspectival Realism written by Michela Massimi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What does it mean to be a realist about science if one takes seriously the view that scientific knowledge is always perspectival, namely historically and culturally situated? In this book, Michela Massimi articulates an original answer to this question. The book begins with an exploration of how scientific communities often resort to several models and a plurality of practices in some areas of inquiry, drawing on examples from nuclear physics, climate science, and developmental psychology. Taking this plurality in science as a starting point, Massimi explains the perspectival nature of scientific representation, the role of scientific models as inferential blueprints, and the variety of scientific realism that naturally accompanies such a view. Perspectival realism is realism about phenomena (rather than about theories or unobservable entities). The book defends this novel realist view, which places epistemic communities and their situated knowledge center stage. The result is a portrait of scientific knowledge as a collaborative inquiry, where the reliability of science is made possible by a plurality of historically and culturally situated scientific perspectives. Along the way, Massimi offers insights into the nature of scientific modelling, scientific knowledge qua modal knowledge, data-to-phenomena inferences, and natural kinds as sortal concepts. Perspectival realism is ultimately realism that takes the multicultural nature of science seriously and couples it with cosmopolitan duties about how one ought to think about scientific knowledge and the distribution of the benefits resulting from scientific advancements"--

Scientific Representation

Author : James Nguyen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009007343
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Scientific Representation written by James Nguyen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the notion of scientific representation. It does so by focussing on an important class of scientific representations, namely scientific models. Models are important in the scientific process because scientists can study a model to discover features of reality. But what does it mean for something to represent something else? This is the question discussed in this Element. The authors begin by disentangling different aspects of the problem of representation and then discuss the dominant accounts in the philosophical literature: the resemblance view and inferentialism. They find them both wanting and submit that their own preferred option, the so-called DEKI account, not only eschews the problems that beset these conceptions, but further provides a comprehensive answer to the question of how scientific representation works. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Science Education: A Global Perspective

Author : Ben Akpan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319323512
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Science Education: A Global Perspective written by Ben Akpan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Education: A Global Perspective is ‘global’ both in content and authorship. Its 17 chapters by an assemblage of seasoned and knowledgeable science educators from many parts of the world seek to bring to the fore current developments in science education and their implications. The book thus covers a wide range of topics in science education from various national and international perspectives. These include the nature of science, science and religion, evolution, curriculum and pedagogy, context-based teaching and learning, science and national development, socially-responsible science education, equitable access for women and girls in science and technology education, and the benefits of science education research. It ends on an optimistic note by looking at science education in 50 years’ time with a recommendation, among others, for stakeholders to take the responsibility of preparing children towards a blossoming science education sector in an anticipated future world. This book is suitable for use by discerning researchers, teachers, undergraduate and postgraduate students in science education, and policy makers at all levels of education. Other educationalists and personnel in science and technology vocations will also find it interesting and useful as the reader-motivated approach has guided the presentation of ideas. Science Education: A Global Perspective is a rich compendium of the components of science education in context, practice, and delivery. Dr Bulent Cavas, Professor of Science Education, Dokuz Eylul Univerity, Buca-Izmir, Turkey/President-Elect, International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE) This book will be of immense relevance for current and future global strides in training and research in science education. Surinder K. Ghai, Chairman, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India This book provides a refreshing insight into the current status and future direction of science education. It will be very useful to researchers, those pursuing undergraduate and post-graduate courses in science education, and all other personnel involved in the policy and practice of science education. Dr. Bennoit Sossou, Director/Country Representative, UNESCO Regional Office in Abuja, Nigeria

The Science of Science

Author : Dashun Wang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108492665
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Science of Science written by Dashun Wang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive overview of the exciting field of the 'science of science'. With anecdotes and detailed, easy-to-follow explanations of the research, this book is accessible to all scientists, policy makers, and administrators with an interest in the wider scientific enterprise.

The Self and Perspective Taking

Author : Louise McHugh
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 157224996X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book The Self and Perspective Taking written by Louise McHugh and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping clients cope with problems of self is an important goal of modern psychotherapy. However, without ways of understanding or measuring the self and self-relevant behavior, it’s difficult for psychologists and researchers to determine if intervention has been effective. From a modern contextual behavioral point of view, the self develops in tandem with the ability to take perspective on one’s own and other people’s behavior. This collection of articles by Steven Hayes, Kelly Wilson, Louise McHugh, Ian Stewart, and other leading researchers begins with a complete history of psychological approaches to understanding the self before presenting contemporary accounts that examine the self and perspective taking from behavioral, developmental, and cognitive perspectives. The articles in The Self and Perspective Taking also explore the role of the self as it relates to acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, and mindfulness processes. Featuring work from world-renowned psychologists, this resource will help clinicians augment self-understanding in clients, especially those with autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia, and impaired perspective-taking abilities.

Beyond Modularity

Author : Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262611145
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Modularity written by Annette Karmiloff-Smith and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995-09-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches. She shows how each can enrich the other and how both are necessary to a fundamental theory of human cognition. Karmiloff-Smith shifts the focus from what cognitive science can offer the study of development to what a developmental perspective can offer cognitive science. In Beyond Modularity she treats cognitive development as a serious theoretical tool, presenting a coherent portrait of the flexibility and creativity of the human mind as it develops from infancy to middle childhood. Language, physics, mathematics, commonsense psychology, drawing, and writing are explored in terms of the relationship between the innate capacities of the human mind and subsequent representational change which allows for such flexibility and creativity. Karmiloff-Smith also takes up the issue of the extent to which development involves domain-specific versus domain-general processes. She concludes with discussions of nativism and domain specificity in relation to Piagetian theory and connectionism, and shows how a developmental perspective can pinpoint what is missing from connectionist models of the mind.

A Tapestry of Values

Author : Kevin C. Elliott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190260823
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book A Tapestry of Values written by Kevin C. Elliott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of values in scientific research has become an important topic of discussion in both scholarly and popular debates. Pundits across the political spectrum worry that research on topics like climate change, evolutionary theory, vaccine safety, and genetically modified foods has become overly politicized. At the same time, it is clear that values play an important role in science by limiting unethical forms of research and by deciding what areas of research have the greatest relevance for society. Deciding how to distinguish legitimate and illegitimate influences of values in scientific research is a matter of vital importance. Recently, philosophers of science have written a great deal on this topic, but most of their work has been directed toward a scholarly audience. This book makes the contemporary philosophical literature on science and values accessible to a wide readership. It examines case studies from a variety of research areas, including climate science, anthropology, chemical risk assessment, ecology, neurobiology, biomedical research, and agriculture. These cases show that values have necessary roles to play in identifying research topics, choosing research questions, determining the aims of inquiry, responding to uncertainty, and deciding how to communicate information. Kevin Elliott focuses not just on describing roles for values but also on determining when their influences are actually appropriate. He emphasizes several conditions for incorporating values in a legitimate fashion, and highlights multiple strategies for fostering engagement between stakeholders so that value influences can be subjected to careful and critical scrutiny.

Effortless Attention

Author : Brian Bruya
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262013843
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Effortless Attention written by Brian Bruya and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomena of effortless attention and action and the challenges they pose to current cognitive models of attention and action.

Science & Emotions after 1945

Author : Frank Biess
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022612651X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Science & Emotions after 1945 written by Frank Biess and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. After 1945, however, in the wake of Nazi irrationalism, emotions became increasingly marginalized and postwar rationalism took central stage. Emotion remained on the scene of scientific and popular study but largely at the fringes as a behavioral reflex, or as a concern of the private sphere. So why, by the 1960s, had the study of emotions returned to the forefront of academic investigation? In Science and Emotions after 1945, Frank Biess and Daniel M. Gross chronicle the curious resurgence of emotion studies and show that it was fueled by two very different sources: social movements of the 1960s and brain science. A central claim of the book is that the relatively recent neuroscientific study of emotion did not initiate – but instead consolidated – the emotional turn by clearing the ground for multidisciplinary work on the emotions. Science and Emotions after 1945 tells the story of this shift by looking closely at scientific disciplines in which the study of emotions has featured prominently, including medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, and the social sciences, viewed in each case from a humanities perspective.

A Neurocomputational Perspective

Author : Paul M. Churchland
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262531061
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book A Neurocomputational Perspective written by Paul M. Churchland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Bradford book."Includes index. Bibliography: p. [305]-313.

The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective

Author : William E. Burns
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199989331
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective written by William E. Burns and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first book to put the scientific revolution, its causes and effects, in a global context. It breaks with the Eurocentric tradition of previous scientific revolution surveys to fully reimagine the emergence of modern science as a process on a world scale. It has maps that for the first time situate the scientific revolution geographically"--Provided by publisher.

Conference proceedings. New perspectives in science education 7th edition

Author : Pixel
Publisher : libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni
ISBN 13 : 8862929765
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Conference proceedings. New perspectives in science education 7th edition written by Pixel and published by libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

(Dis)Embodied Perception of the Self and Other - Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Science & Arts

Author : Anna Ciaunica
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889742059
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book (Dis)Embodied Perception of the Self and Other - Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Science & Arts written by Anna Ciaunica and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Representations of Nature of Science in School Science Textbooks

Author : Christine V. McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317307267
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Representations of Nature of Science in School Science Textbooks written by Christine V. McDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together international research on nature of science (NOS) representations in science textbooks, the unique analyses presented in this volume provides a global perspective on NOS from elementary to college level and discusses the practical implications in various regions across the globe. Contributing authors highlight the similarities and differences in NOS representations and provide recommendations for future science textbooks. This comprehensive analysis is a definitive reference work for the field of science education.

The Territories of Science and Religion

Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022618448X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Territories of Science and Religion written by Peter Harrison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Harrison takes what we think we know about science and religion, dismantles it, and puts it back together again in a provocative new way. It is a mistake to assume, as most do, that the activities and achievements that are usually labeled religious and scientific have been more or less enduring features of the cultural landscape of the West. Harrison, by setting out the history of science and religion to see when and where they come into being and to trace their mutations over timereveals how distinctively Western and modern they are. Only in the past few hundred years have religious beliefs and practices been bounded by a common notion and set apart from the secular. And the idea of the natural sciences as discrete activities conducted in isolation from religious and moral concerns is even more recent, dating from the nineteenth century. Putting the so-called opposition between religion and science into historical perspective, as Harrison does here for the first time, has profound implications for our understanding of the present and future relations between them. "

New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress

Author : Yafeng Shan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000780880
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress written by Yafeng Shan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in philosophy of science. Traditionally, debates over scientific progress have focused on different methodological approaches, notably the epistemic and semantic approaches. The chapters in Part I of the book examine these two traditional approaches, as well as the newly revived functional and newly developed noetic approaches. Part II features in-depth case studies of scientific progress from the history of science. The chapters cover individual sciences including physics, chemistry, evolutionary biology, seismology, psychology, sociology, economics, and medicine. Finally, Part III of the book explores important issues from contemporary philosophy of science. These chapters address the implications of scientific progress for the scientific realism/anti-realism debate, incommensurability, values in science, idealisation, scientific speculation, interdisciplinarity, and scientific perspectivalism. New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the history and philosophy of science.

Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution

Author : Toby E. Huff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139495356
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution written by Toby E. Huff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo's discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman Empire, those civilizations did not respond as Europeans did to the new instrument. In Europe, there was an extraordinary burst of innovations in microscopy, human anatomy, optics, pneumatics, electrical studies, and the science of mechanics. Nearly all of those aided the emergence of Newton's revolutionary grand synthesis, which unified terrestrial and celestial physics under the law of universal gravitation. That achievement had immense implications for all aspects of modern science, technology, and economic development. The economic implications are set out in the concluding epilogue. All these unique developments suggest why the West experienced a singular scientific and economic ascendancy of at least four centuries.