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Objectivity in Science by Flavia Padovani Alan Richardson & Jonathan Y. Tsou
epub |eng | | Author:Flavia Padovani, Alan Richardson & Jonathan Y. Tsou

Thus, Liebmann wants to conclude, none of our representations are determined by or resemble a world that exists beyond them. In fact, this argument provides only partial support for Liebmann’s ...
( Category: Philosophy March 23,2020 )
Beyond Mimesis and Convention by Roman Frigg & Matthew C. Hunter
epub |eng | | Author:Roman Frigg & Matthew C. Hunter

A First Stab at T-Representation So far I have argued that models are imagined objects and I have shown how this leads to a coherent overall view of scientific modeling ...
( Category: Philosophy March 23,2020 )
The History of American Higher Education by Geiger Roger L
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Geiger, Roger L.

LAND GRANT UNIVERSITIES In 1868 Cornell University opened as the land grant institution of New York State. The following year Charles W. Eliot began his 40-year presidency of Harvard. And, ...
( Category: History March 23,2020 )
Explaining the Cosmos by Graham Daniel W
epub |eng | | Author:Graham, Daniel W.

7 ANAXAGORAS AND EMPEDOCLES ELEATIC PLURALISTS ANEW STYLE OF scientific theory appears after Parmenides. Anaxagoras, Empedocles, and later the atomists account for natural phenomena by appealing not to some single ...
( Category: Cosmology March 22,2020 )
Paradoxes in Probability Theory by William Eckhardt
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:William Eckhardt

1st box Choice Outcome No. of cases Million 1 Box 1,000,000 9 Million 2 Box 1,001,000 1 Empty 1 Box 0 1 Empty 2 Box 1,000 49 In this problem ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 22,2020 )
Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon by Andrea Bardin
epub |eng | | Author:Andrea Bardin

4Canguilhem formulates his hypothesis concerning the origin of the concept of adaptation within the same conceptual horizon of Simondon’s hypothesis on the ‘technical’ origins of hylomorphism (see above, Sect. 2.​1): ...
( Category: Philosophy March 22,2020 )
Complete Works of Pliny the Elder by Pliny the Elder
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2015-08-28 | Author:Pliny the Elder [Elder, Pliny the]

( Category: History & Philosophy March 22,2020 )
Complete Works of Pliny the Younger by Pliny the Younger
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2015-11-28 | Author:Pliny the Younger [Younger, Pliny the]

( Category: Rome March 22,2020 )
Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory by Tsilipakos Leonidas
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Tsilipakos, Leonidas

4.6 A Distortive Picture of Language (and Explanation) In this section I confront the idea that there is something wrong (i.e. ontologically unsound) in some way or other with talking ...
( Category: Philosophy March 22,2020 )
On Injuries of the Head (Medical Library) by Hippocrates
epub |eng | 2016-08-11 | Author:Hippocrates

Part 13 And with regard to the cure of wounds in the head, and the mode of detecting injuries in the bone which are not apparent, the following is my ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature March 22,2020 )
The Natural philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg by David Dunér
epub |eng | | Author:David Dunér

A Sea of Bubbles In January 1718 Swedenborg wrote to Benzelius to tell him that he was working on an essay in which he sought to prove, with the aid ...
( Category: Philosophy March 22,2020 )
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance by George Saliba
epub |eng | | Author:George Saliba

Islamic Responses to Ptolemaic Astronomy: Creating an Alternative Astronomy We have already seen several levels of responses to what was perceived as factual mistakes in the Ptolemaic tradition. Whether it ...
( Category: History of Technology March 22,2020 )
FROM EROS TO GAIA by Freeman Dyson
epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Freeman Dyson [Dyson, Freeman]

Hale now had Yerkes hooked but not yet landed. Hale needed not just a forty-inch lens but a telescope mount and a dome and a stellar spectrograph and an observatory ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 22,2020 )
The Turbulent Universe by Kurtz Paul
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Kurtz, Paul.

BIOGRAPHY The same thing is true of our understanding of individuals. How are we to explain any person, who and what he or she is, without a detailed biographical account? ...
( Category: Philosophy March 22,2020 )
THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT by Immanuel Kant
epub |eng | 2017-07-04 | Author:Immanuel Kant [Kant, Immanuel]

SECOND DIVISION DIALECTIC OF THE AESTHETICAL JUDGEMENT Table of Contents § 55 A faculty of Judgement that is to be dialectical must in the first place be rationalising, i.e. its ...
( Category: Epistemology March 22,2020 )

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