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Reviewed CC BY 4.0 Accepted on 03 Oct 2018 Submitted on 17 Mar 2018 Introduction The work of preserving and presenting the past is inherently political, whether
Philosophy of current knowledge distinguishes facts from values. It maintains that facts are objective, indisputable, universally verifiable and do not require to persuade. Since rhetoric is ... philosophy of logical positivism transformed rhetoric from a respected art to a contemptible form of trickery and deceit is both extremely important, and largely unknown and unfamiliar. This story is too
paper sketches trends in philosophy of science which led to a methodology which permits creation of mental models disconnected from reality. A key development was the separation of the observable ... with imaginary toy models? Opinions diverge radically on this issue, which is quite embarrassing from both the scientific and the political point of view.” Instead of joining this debate, we take the
David Freedmans impressive paper reveals well his deep understanding of not only statistical techniques and their uses but also of scientific methodology and its philosophy. On visits to Berkeley ... ,” namely that any area of study, be it physics, astronomy, economics, political science, etc., can be scientific if scientific methods are employed in producing, analyzing and learning from data. Now it may
estimate, and it is cited in places as far the work that is being done on them is seen as afijield as political philosophy [e.g., Appiah 1985]) . being largely of bad quality. Contemporary scholars ... to use advances in genomics and com- of racism have shaped human organisms over the n A Troublesome Inheritance, Nicholas Wade to grips with ways in which the political processes parative human biology
. 3.2. Inter and Multi-Disciplinary Approach Adam Smith was a professor of Moral Philosophy. For a long time, the title of “Political Economy” reflected the understanding that politics could not be ... policy recommendations generated by an MMT perspective. For more details on how these ideas could be implemented, see Zaman (Jan 7, 2020) . 2.3. Political Economy Once we recognize the importance of
problems of sustainability are not merely ones of finance but of political economy, which means that focusing purely on financial sustainability in the absence of considering governance principles and ... a political economic analysis has real value. Keywords: infrastructure , financing , governance , collective action , scholarship How to Cite: Neylon, C., (2017
as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. The growth of cyberactivism and use of online tools, such as Twitter, in social protest has had a significant impact on promoting political activism, mobilizing ... , including the development of the public library system in the Western world; the switch to journals from private letters as a means of sharing knowledge; and the rise of the philosophy of public access in
offering further insight into Locke’s influential work on property rights and limits. My hope is that this portrayal of Locke’s relatively effective political intervention as scholar-activist and public ... printing of seditious and treasonable pamphlets, which is the title and pretense of this act’ (334)? He did not object to the prosecution of sedition, though he might well have cited his earlier political
perfectly clear. Despite the appearance of mathematical rigor and the claims to objectivity, results of environmental models are often exquisitely tuned to the sensibilities of the modelers. In political ... chapter (Brady et al., 2004) finds that ―it is difficult to make causal inferences from observational data, especially when research focuses on complex political processes. Behind the apparent precision
American artists, university students and professors, and political activists who produced posters and community murals, a free breakfast program for children, arts programs in schools, Chicano sports ... ), where she studied under Arnaldo Solis and practiced a philosophy called Chicano Mental Health, which utilized cultural and community-based practices and one-on-one counseling sessions to promote emotional
of the positivist philosophy were wrong. Logical positivism had a “spectacular crash,” and there was some 1 dispute about who had “killed” logical positivism . As a logical consequence, it became ... foundations. The goal of this section is to provide enough details of the history and philosophy of science to make this claim plausible. 2.1. The Rise and Fall of Logical Positivism Kung (1997) has
-14. Golosov, M. and R. E. Lucas Jr (2007). Menu costs and Phillips curves, Journal of Political Economy, 115(2), 171–199. Kehoe, P. and V. Midrigan (2015). Prices are sticky after all, Journal of
? Trends and Determinants of Green Investment. IMF Working Paper WP/11/296. Fiorino, Daniel J. (2014). The Political Economy of Green Growth: Reframing Ecology, Economics, and Equity. In World Congress of ... the International Political Science Association, Montreal, Quebec, July 22, 2014 (RC 38 on Politics and Business). Fiorino, Daniel J. (2001). Environmental Policy as Learning: A New View of an Old
groups were often comprised of individuals who belonged to multiple groups and who had very complicated opinions on what the future of science or chemistry should be. Nonetheless, these political divisions ... elite group of people who, in some cases, had quite specific agendas. Alexander Dallas Bache (1806–1867) was a member of a very prominent Philadelphia family and had connections to political figures
the precepts of morality and religion which are to be accepted on faith, he argued, inquiry into natures secrets are not forbidden’ (Quoted in Eamon, 320). In other words theology, philosophy, and other ... types of theoretical learning were outside the bounds of what ‘science’ was. Bacon believed that science should utilize the mechanical arts, or technical knowledge, rather than philosophy because
GDP growth, in a context of political instability, the present paper contains the following sections. After a brief literature review, comparing nonlinear models with linear models developed in Section
activities, in candid domestic settings, and in forums where they were delivering explicitly political messages about their rights, title, and culture for a settler/colonial audience. The stories behind (and ... record” (2003, 141). Swain goes on to outline the history of archival philosophy, from neutrally collecting cultural memory to inevitably contributing to the “multiple truths” of the postmodern perspective
and to our underlying philosophy for this journal. Asad Zaman 0 0 International Islamic University of Islamabad Close attention to real world applications, generated by demands of undergraduate
and sharing of knowledge. As Rajiv S. Jhangiani writes in the concluding chapter of the co-edited collection Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science, ‘both ... and Scholarship.” In: Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science, Jhangiani, Rajiv S., and Robert Biswas-Diener (eds.), 267–79. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https
