How Well Do Facts Travel

Author : Peter Howlett,Mary S. Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 052115958X

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How Well Do Facts Travel? by Peter Howlett,Mary S. Morgan Pdf

Why write about facts? Facts are everywhere. They litter the utterances of public life as much as the private conversations of individuals. They frequent the humanities and the sciences in equal measure. But their very ubiquity tells us not only why it is difficult to form general but sensible answers in response to seemingly simple questions about facts, but also why it is important to do so. This book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character and ability to play useful roles elsewhere, but also on the labels, packaging, vehicles, and company that take them across difficult terrains and over disciplinary boundaries. These diverse stories of traveling facts, ranging from architecture to nanotechnology and from romance fiction to climate science, change the way we see the nature of facts. Facts are far from the bland and rather boring but useful objects that scientists and humanists produce and fit together to make narratives, arguments, and evidence. Rather, their extraordinary abilities to travel well - and to fly flags of many different colors in the process - shows when, how, and why facts can be used to build further knowledge beyond and away from their sites of original production and intended use.

Author : Peter Howlett,Mary S. Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139492393

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How Well Do Facts Travel? by Peter Howlett,Mary S. Morgan Pdf

This book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character and ability to play useful roles elsewhere, but also on the labels, packaging, vehicles and company that take them across difficult terrains and over disciplinary boundaries. These diverse stories of travelling facts, ranging from architecture to nanotechnology and from romance fiction to climate science, change the way we see the nature of facts. Facts are far from the bland and rather boring but useful objects that scientists and humanists produce and fit together to make narratives, arguments and evidence. Rather, their extraordinary abilities to travel well shows when, how and why facts can be used to build further knowledge beyond and away from their sites of original production and intended use.

Author : Miriam Solomon,Jeremy R. Simon,Harold Kincaid
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317519850

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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine by Miriam Solomon,Jeremy R. Simon,Harold Kincaid Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine is a comprehensive guide to topics in the fields of epistemology and metaphysics of medicine. It examines traditional topics such as the concept of disease, causality in medicine, the epistemology of the randomized controlled trial, the biopsychosocial model, explanation, clinical judgment and phenomenology of medicine and emerging topics, such as philosophy of epidemiology, measuring harms, the concept of disability, nursing perspectives, race and gender, the metaphysics of Chinese medicine, and narrative medicine. Each of the 48 chapters is written especially for this volume and with a student audience in mind. For pedagogy and clarity, each chapter contains an extended example illustrating the ideas discussed. This text is intended for use as a reference for students in courses in philosophy of medicine and philosophy of science, and pairs well with The Routledge Companion to Bioethics for use in medical humanities and social science courses.

Author : Edward Beasley
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781606189023

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A Male Hysteria by Edward Beasley Pdf

"This book explores the history and treatment of diabetes. It focuses on the nineteenth-century understanding of the disease and medicine's attempts to grapple with the disorder for the past two centuries"--

Author : Gavin Lucas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000649376

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Archaeological Situations by Gavin Lucas Pdf

This book is an introduction to theory in archaeology – but with a difference. Archaeological Situations avoids talking about theory as if it was something you apply but rather as something embedded in archaeological practice from the start. Rather than see theory as something worked from the outside in, this book explores theory from the inside out, which means it focuses on specific archaeological practices rather than specific theories. It starts from the kinds of situations that students find themselves in and learn about in other archaeology courses, avoiding the gap between practice and theory from the very beginning. It shows students the theoretical implications of almost everything they engage in as archaeologists, from fieldwork, recording, writing up and making and assessing an argument to exploring the very nature of archaeology and justifying its relevance. Essentially, it adopts a structure which attempts to pre-empt one of the most common complaints of students taking theory courses: how is this applicable? Aimed primarily at undergraduates, this book is the ideal way to engage students with archaeological theory.

Author : Kalyani Unkule
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030281120

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Internationalising the University by Kalyani Unkule Pdf

This book takes a critical look at the internationalisation of higher education and argues for the importance of grounding education in spiritual perspectives. Using spiritual traditions to review the practices, programmes, and philosophies of learning that internationalise universities, the author proposes a paradigm for internationalisation that respects other ways of knowing. This focus seeks to decolonize knowledge and promote intercultural understanding, as well as help students achieve holistic personal development while studying abroad.

Author : Hakan Seckinelgin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780415615709

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International Security, Conflict, and Gender by Hakan Seckinelgin Pdf

This book challenges the conventional security-based international policy frameworks that have developed for dealing with HIV/AIDS during and after conflicts, and examines first-hand evidence and experiences of conflict and HIV/AIDS. Since the turn of the century international policy agenda on security have focused on HIV/AIDS only as a concern for national and international security, ignoring people’s particular experiences, vulnerabilities and needs in conflict and post-conflict contexts. Developing a gender-based framework for HIV/AIDS-conflict analysis, this book draws on research conducted in Burundi to understand the implications of post-conflict demobilization and reintegration policies on women and men and their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. By centring the argument on personal reflections, this work provides a critical alternative method to engage with conflict and HIV/AIDS, and a much richer understanding of the relationship between the two. International Security, Conflict and Genderwill be of interest to students and scholars of healthcare politics, security and governance.

Author : Johanna Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000027204

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Owned, An Ethological Jurisprudence of Property by Johanna Gibson Pdf

This book draws upon domestication science to undertake a radical reappraisal of the jurisprudence of property and intellectual property. Bringing together animal studies and legal philosophy, it articulates a critique of dominant property models and relationships from the perspective of cognitive ethology, domestication science and animal behaviour. In doing so, a radical new picture of property emerges. Focusing on the emergence of property models through prevailing ideas of human domestication and settlement, the book challenges the anthropocentrism that informs standard approaches to ownership and to authorship. Utilising a wide range of examples from ethology and animal studies, the book thus rethinks the very nature of property as uniquely human. This highly original contribution to the fields of property and intellectual property will appeal not only to legal scholars in these areas, as well as in animal law, but also to legal theorists and others working in the social sciences with interests in posthumanism and animal studies.

Author : Karel Davids,Bert De Munck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317116530

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Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities by Karel Davids,Bert De Munck Pdf

Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and in seventeenth and eighteenth-century northwestern Europe are the most obvious cases in point. But, how did this come about? Why did cities rather than rural environments produce new artistic genres, new products and new techniques? How did pre-industrial cities evolve into centres of innovation and creativity? As the most urbanized regions of continental Europe in this period, Italy and the Low Countries provide a rich source of case studies, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate. They set out to examine the relationship between institutional arrangements and regulatory mechanisms such as citizenship and guild rules and innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern cities. They analyze whether, in what context and why regulation or deregulation influenced innovation and creativity, and what the impact was of long-term changes in the political and economic sphere.

Author : K. I. V. KIV Books
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1542608740

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Time Travel by K. I. V. KIV Books Pdf

What do you know about Traveling Through Time & Space? Are you keen to learn about it? This book will tell you about Space and Time and it will explain vital terms in a simple yet factual way that does not blind the reader with science. It will tell you about the vitally important topics of the Solar System, Flight, and Light. It will introduce you to the fascinating topics of Black Holes, Dark Matter, and Wormholes, which are so important to anyone with an interest in Space & Time. The book finishes with Chapters about UFOs, both Modern and Ancient, who we believe carry those who have already mastered Space & Time, and a light-hearted look at those who see them as a Threat.

Author : Adrian Currie
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262552035

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Rock, Bone, and Ruin by Adrian Currie Pdf

An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the deep past. The “historical sciences”—geology, paleontology, and archaeology—have made extraordinary progress in advancing our understanding of the deep past. How has this been possible, given that the evidence they have to work with offers mere traces of the past? In Rock, Bone, and Ruin, Adrian Currie explains that these scientists are “methodological omnivores,” with a variety of strategies and techniques at their disposal, and that this gives us every reason to be optimistic about their capacity to uncover truths about prehistory. Creative and opportunistic paleontologists, for example, discovered and described a new species of prehistoric duck-billed platypus from a single fossilized tooth. Examining the complex reasoning processes of historical science, Currie also considers philosophical and scientific reflection on the relationship between past and present, the nature of evidence, contingency, and scientific progress. Currie draws on varied examples from across the historical sciences, from Mayan ritual sacrifice to giant Mesozoic fleas to Mars's mysterious watery past, to develop an account of the nature of, and resources available to, historical science. He presents two major case studies: the emerging explanation of sauropod size, and the “snowball earth” hypothesis that accounts for signs of glaciation in Neoproterozoic tropics. He develops the Ripple Model of Evidence to analyze “unlucky circumstances” in scientific investigation; examines and refutes arguments for pessimism about the capacity of the historical sciences, defending the role of analogy and arguing that simulations have an experiment-like function. Currie argues for a creative, open-ended approach, “empirically grounded” speculation.

Author : Efthimios Tambouris,Ann Macintosh,Hans de Bruijn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642233326

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Electronic Participation by Efthimios Tambouris,Ann Macintosh,Hans de Bruijn Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2011, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in August/September 2011. The 26 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on appreciation of social media; visualizing arguments; understanding eParticipation; eParticipation initiatiaves and country studies; participation and eServices; and innovative technologies.

Author : Philippe Le Gall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134352555

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A History of Econometrics in France by Philippe Le Gall Pdf

This text challenges the traditional view of the history of econometrics and provides a more complete story. In doing so, the book sheds light on the hitherto under-researched contribution of French thinkers to econometrics. Fascinating and authoritative, it is a comprehensive overview of what went on to be one of the defining subsets within t

Author : Anonim
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789290908654

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Water user associations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Léna Soler,Emiliano Trizio,Thomas Nickles,William Wimsatt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400727595

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Characterizing the Robustness of Science by Léna Soler,Emiliano Trizio,Thomas Nickles,William Wimsatt Pdf

Mature sciences have been long been characterized in terms of the “successfulness”, “reliability” or “trustworthiness” of their theoretical, experimental or technical accomplishments. Today many philosophers of science talk of “robustness”, often without specifying in a precise way the meaning of this term. This lack of clarity is the cause of frequent misunderstandings, since all these notions, and that of robustness in particular, are connected to fundamental issues, which concern nothing less than the very nature of science and its specificity with respect to other human practices, the nature of rationality and of scientific progress; and science’s claim to be a truth-conducive activity. This book offers for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the problem of robustness, and in general, that of the reliability of science, based on several detailed case studies and on philosophical essays inspired by the so-called practical turn in philosophy of science.