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Philosophy, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam , Oude Turfmarkt 145, 1012 GC Amsterdam , The Netherlands 1 Philosophisches Seminar, Heidelberg University , Schulgasse 6 ... that demonstrates the influence of the axiomatic ideal of science on eighteenth-century German philosophy and science, while also discussing debates on the axiomatic ideal. We then show, drawing on the
, Anthropology, and Philosophy , Augusta University , Augusta, GA , USA Decolonization created new opportunities for international scientific research collaboration. In Indonesia this began in the late 1940s, as ... serving imperial goals, and now generating knowledge meaningful to Indonesia, tropical Asia, and the rest of the world. Decolonization in the 1940s and 1950s thus created political opportunities for
Life Science book appeared, Indiana University’s History and Philosophy of Science Department invited Gar as a speaker to discuss his ideas in that book and related work from his continuing dissertation ... ), Douglas Chalker (on genetics and development), Allan Larson (on many chapters including concerning the evolutionary synthesis), Carl Craver (on mechanism and philosophy in general), Glenn Stone (on
Political, the Personal and the Disciplinary Dimensions of Sociobiology The relative influence of political, personal, and scientific agendas behind both sociobiology and its critique has been a contested ... sticking to well-established and evidence-based claims. She is part of a group of scholars (some with close associations to Wilson) that emphasize a non-political interpretation of the debate. Segerstråle
nonhuman primates has been labelled “extractive colonialism and neo-colonialism” (Haraway 1989, p. 115) and “racialized political economies” (Suri 2022, p. 117) . Furthermore, the “escalating role of ... political, cultural and normative implications, and that are situated in time and space. Parallel to the body of studies pointing out the colonial and neocolonial character of the primate trade in particular
economic objects. The various models fisheries science used to understand the world reflected amalgamations of biological, physical, economic, and political factors. As a result, scientists had great ... coherence of the concept. In light of recent literature in history of fisheries and environmental social sciences that critiques the infiltration of political and economic imperatives into fisheries and
A review of Yoga: India's Philosophy of Meditation edited by Gerald James Larson and Ram Shankar Bhattacharya. ... remain silent and peaceful, He will not stop speaking to you. (130) Joseph Prabhu California State University, Los Angeles Yoga: India's Philosophy of Meditation. Edited by Gerald James Larson and Ram
in this period of theoretical, empirical, and political crisis from historical and philosophical perspectives. This includes not only conceptual, methodological, and epistemological issues but also the ... foundations of biology? And what can contemporary philosophy of biology learn from these past biotheoretical debates? 2 On whether the vitalism-mechanism debate was ever fully settled, see Peterson and Hall
, BC, Canada. His many books include: lung and Eastern Thought (1985); The Philosophy of the Grammarians (1990); Derrida and Indian Philosophy (1990); Pluralism in World Religions (2000); Scripture in
epistemological positions” and that these approaches were found “all across the political spectrum” (Harwood 1996, pp. 365–366) . Following Harwood’s argument, this article addresses the historical variety of ... , could not be explained as the action of a machine-like entity (Driesch 1902) . In the early twentieth century, Driesch abandoned experimental research and turned to philosophy, where he further
surrounded the preparation of the document. Indeed, the demands of the membership made it progressively more impartial in both scientific and political terms, decreasing its potential significance for a wider ... 0 0 Department of Classics , Philosophy and History , University of Genoa , Via Balbi, 2, 16126 Genoa , Italy In 1976, the Genetics Society of America (GSA) published a document entitled “Resolution
Book Review of Divine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy of Being in Two Gītā Commentaries. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad. NY and London: Bloomsbury, 2013, x + 148pp. ... Commons; and the Religious Thought; Theology and Philosophy of Religion - Commons Book Reviews 79 versa. Ganeri’s fluency in the both religious traditions is outstanding. Sucharita Adluri Cleveland
intersections and trajectory of a range of life sciences, and paid special attention to the vitalist-mechanist philosophy, as well as to the scientific questions, techniques, and practices, along with individuals
1991 meeting of the International Society for the History, Vol.:(012134536789) - Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB). “The Right Organism for the Job” (JHB, 26/2) featured pioneering ... principally concerned with questions of scientific work, although they also hoped to speak to ongoing conversations in the philosophy of science about the right choice in experimental contexts. As later
biological heredity were gradually constructed from the knowledge scattered in different domains, such as philosophy, jurisprudence, medicine, horticulture, and animal breeding (López-Beltrán 2006; Lidwell ... 2007, pp. 133–154). Consanguineous marriages were routinely contracted by European royal dynasties during the early modern period in order to establish political alliances (Ceballos and Álvarez 2013
history of biology.3 Such a focus is not patronizing on the scientific side; on the contrary, it deliberately reflects on the trend in the other areas concerned with Aristotelian studies: philosophy 1 ... , rather than seeing Aristotle as a philosopher only, increasingly stress the enormous impact Aristotle’s biology has on the other topics that Aristotle writes about (ethics, physics, philosophy, etc.). Thus
(DeRobertis and Arechaga 2001) . Others have raised questions about issues of priority (Lenhoff 1991) or they have taken a historical perspective that considers the political dimensions of the concept itself ... by the massive economic and political crises of the young Weimar Republic. “The precarious political situation and the increasing economic poverty in summer 1923,” as Richard Hertwig and Hans Nacht5
great reader. - Paul entered the University of Pittsburgh in 1961 as a pre-med zoology major. He also took a philosophy of science course with Adolf Grunbaum and history of science with Robert Colodny ... supportive. At Pitt Paul met Vreneli Marti, who became his wife in 1966. By then Paul was in the graduate program in History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana. Vreneli had obtained a master’s degree in
approaches rooted in other disciplines -- philosophy, sociology, anthropology, literary studies, and area studies- to the history of biology, and that explores the intersections of race, class, gender and
, 6525 GG Nijmegen, Netherlands; hereafter BUYT-XY, Buytendijk Archive, KDC. 3 Lashley was enthusiastic about experiments and about German philosophy and culture (Roofe 1970) . This proclivity, as the ... historian of science Nadine Weidman pointed out, was not merely an arbitrary private pleasure on his part; rather, it strongly influenced Lashley’s political opinions, the effects of which need to be taken
