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Animal Pain And The Social Role Of Science, Leslie Irvine

Leslie Irvine, PhD

Assuming that all animals are sentient would mean ending their use in most scientific research. This does not necessarily imply an unscientific or anti-scientific stance. Examining the social role of science reveals its considerable investment in preserving the status quo, including the continued use of animal subjects. From this perspective, the use of animal subjects is a custom that science could move beyond, rather than a methodological requirement that it must defend.

Fiction, Science, Or Faith – The Structure Of Scientific Revolution: A Planners Perspective. Another Visit To Thomas S. Kuhn: The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions., Michael A. Rodriguez Ph.D.

Anthony M Rodriguez Ph.D.

Thomas Kuhn and his work in 'The structure of scientific revolutions' is evaluated in the context of faith, science, and what constitute true change. Additionally, the notion of science and faith are contended as important relationships in true change.

The Nature Of Science: A Perspective From The Philosophy Of Science, Juli T. Eflin, Stuart Glennan, George Reisch

Stuart Glennan

In a recent article in this journal, Brian Alters (1997) argued that, given the many ways in which the nature of science (NOS) is described and poor student responses to NOS instruments such as Nature of Scientific Knowledge Scale (NSKS), Nature of Science Scale (NOSS), Test on Understanding Science (TOUS), and others, it is time for science educators to reconsider the standard lists of tenets for the NOS. Alters suggested that philosophers of science are authorities on the NOS and that consequently, it would be wise to investigate their views of current NOS tenets. To that end, he conducted a …

Women, The Novel, And Natural Philosophy, 1660-1727, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660-1727 shows how early women novelists drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre and literary omniscience as a point of view. These writers such as Aphra Behn, Jane Barker, Eliza Haywood, and Mary Davys used, tested, explored, accepted, and rejected ideas about the self in their works to represent the act of knowing and what it means to be a knowing self. Karen Bloom Gevirtz agues that as they did so, they developed structures for representing authoritative knowing that contributed to the development …

The Aesthetics Of Ethics, Raam P. Gokhale

Raam P Gokhale

The Aesthetics of Ethics

Adorno On Science And Nihilism, Animals, And Jews, Babette Babich

Babette Babich

No less than Heidegger or Nietzsche, Adorno had his own critical notions of truth/untruth. But Adorno’s readers are unsettled by the barest hint of anything that might be taken to be anti-science. Thus it is argued that Adorno opposes not science but scientism. But, and here not unlike Arendt, Adorno argued that so-called “scientistic” tendencies are the very conditions of society and of scientific thought.” I ask how we are to read Adorno by exploring his thought on animals and nihilism.

On The Order Of The Real: Nietzsche And Lacan, Babette Babich

Babette Babich

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Restructuring Science, Re-Engaging Society, Danielle Lake

Danielle L Lake

Is Philosophy Dead? Far From It, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.

Rotman Institute Opening, Joseph Rotman, Janice Deakin, Jane Maienschein, Charles Weijer, Philip Kitcher

Charles Weijer

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Equations Without Equations: Challenges On A Way To A More Adequate Formalization Of Causality Reasoning In Physics, Juan Ferret

Juan Ferret

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Creating A Warmer Environment For Women In The Mathematical Sciences And In Philosophy, Samantha Brennan, Rob Corless

Samantha Brennan

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Heidegger E A Possibilidade De Uma Antropologia Existencial, Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

The present investigation intents to discuss Heidegger’s reflections on science by focusing both on his analysis of it in Being and time and on his reflections concerning the possibility of an existentially grounded anthropology, exposed in the Zollikoner Seminare. In spite of the important transformations that affected Heidegger’s thinking concerning science after the Kehre, I shall argue that what unifies his understanding of it throughout his work is the deconstructive subordination of science to the ontological investigaton. By thus proceeding, Heidegger was able to criticize the dangerous objectifying and reifying tendencies implied by traditional scientific approaches of the human being, …