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McAteer, Mary. "Contemporary science education : some historical and philosophical roots." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311587.

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Urgen, Burcu Aysen. "A Philosophical Analysis Of Computational Modeling In Cognitive Science." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608832/index.pdf.

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This study analyses the methodology of computational cognitive modeling as one of the ways of conducting research in cognitive science. The aim of the study is to provide an understanding of the place of computational cognitive models in understanding human cognition. Considering the vast number of computational cognitive models which have been just given to account for some cognitive phenomenon by solely simulating some experimental study and fitting to empirical data, a practice-oriented approach is adopted in this study to understand the work of the modeler, and accordingly to discover the

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Burchnall, Krystian Paul. "Putting crime science in its place : exploring the philosophical and criminological implications of crime science." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.618554.

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Crime Science claims to be a new approach, and whilst there has been some theoretical discussion of it in recent literature there has not been a lot, and little has been done to date on the implications it has for policy. In this thesis Crime Science is discussed under four main topics. Firstly, the development of Crime Science from a historical and intellectual perspective is discussed. The second chapter covers the boundaries of Crime Science, with particular reference to its defensiveness towards 'traditional criminology'. The third topic is how effective Crime Science has been to date, and

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Divall, C. M. "Capitalising on 'science' : philosophical ambiguity in Julian Huxley's politics 1920-1950." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.481564.

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Palacios, Patricia [Verfasser], and Stephan [Akademischer Betreuer] Hartmann. "Phase transitions in science: selected philosophical topics / Patricia Palacios ; Betreuer: Stephan Hartmann." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1206878304/34.

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Sievers, Juliele Maria. "A philosophical reading of legal positivism." Thesis, Lille 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LIL30017/document.

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Le travail ici présenté offre une approche originelle des notions juridiques développées par Hans Kelsen dans ses efforts vers l'élaboration d'une théorie "pure" du droit. Cette étude est basée sur une analyse philosophique des principaux concepts juridiques qui ont, à leur tour, des caractéristiques philosophiques pertinentes, principalement les notions qui sont apparemment "partagées" entre les domaines juridique et philosophique, sans pour autant garder les mêmes significations sémantiques. La notion la plus pertinente à avoir ces caractéristiques est peut-être celle de "validité", étant do

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Swepson, Pamela Joyce. "Guidelines for good research: either action research or science." Thesis, Griffith University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366200.

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The theoretical literature to support good research practice, either action research or science, appears to lack practical guidelines for conducting systematic inquiry, within the contingencies of a given research context. I suggest this lack is due to some misconceptions about the nature of good research. In order to re-dress this lack and to enhance the practices of both methods of inquiry, I wish to challenge what I believe to be some wrong assumptions about good research. I will base my challenge on the empirical evidence of 22 case studies of acknowledged good research in both action r

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Guthrie, Marie. "Robert A. Heinlein: A Philosophical Novelist." TopSCHOLAR®, 1985. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1559.

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Robert A. Heinlein is a key figure in the development of American science fiction. What makes his contribution unique is his emphasis on philosophical speculation. Heinlein's program is based on rationality as a vital element to salvation. Although the importance of rationality is an aspect of many schools of philosophy particular value may be gained by comparing Heinlein's system with the philosophy of Plotinus. An examination of Heinlein's key works (Stranger in a Strange Land. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Time Enough For Love, The Number of the Beast--. And various short stories I provides

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Furbish, Dean Russel. "A Philosophical Examination of Mead's Pragmatist Constructivism as a Referent for Adult Science Education." NCSU, 2005. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06012005-140340/.

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The purpose of this study is to examine pragmatist constructivism as a science education referent for adult learners. Specifically, this study seeks to determine whether George Herbert Mead?s doctrine, which conflates pragmatist learning theory and philosophy of natural science, might facilitate (a) scientific concept acquisition, (b) learning scientific methods, and (c) preparation of learners for careers in science and science-related areas. A philosophical examination of Mead?s doctrine in light of these three criteria has determined that pragmatist constructivism is not a viable science ed

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Knowles, Jonathan Lewis. "Explanation, tacit knowledge, and language : an inquiry into the philosophical significance of cognitive science." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243376.

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Pak, Christopher. "Ecopolitical transformations and the development of environmental philosophical awareness in science fictional narratives of terraforming." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2012. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/9193/.

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This thesis examines the motif of terraforming from Wells’ War of the Worlds (1898) to James Cameron’s film Avatar (2009) in order to assess the dialogical development of ecological themes and its imbrication with politics in science fictional narratives of terraforming. It tracks the growth of the theme in four distinct phases that are contextualised by a short history of terraforming in the introductory first chapter. Chapter two examines the appearance of proto-terraforming and proto-Gaian themes in British scientific romance and American pulp sf prior to Jack Williamson’s coining of the te

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Diazibarra, Dulce M. "Measuring student attitudes towards philosophical chairs versus traditional discussion to promote argumentation in the science classroom." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10140468.

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<p> Middle school students were introduced to the concept of scientific argumentation through the use of a pre and post performance task. Students were required to answer a question based on data provided and be able to justify their reason with evidence. This study compared two different forms of discussion, philosophical chairs and traditional discussion, in order to identify what type of discussion was beneficial to students to communicate a written argument. This study investigated two research questions, first if the type of discussion affects students’ ability to write a logic

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Algazy, Theodore Matthew. "The philosophical foundation of Thomas Hill Green's social and political theory /." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66206.

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Rashford, Jared Michael. "Considering Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics as a Referent for Student Understanding of Nature-of-Science Concepts." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/msit_diss/51.

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The purpose of this study is to examine philosophical hermeneutics as a referent for student understanding of Nature-of-Science (NOS) concepts. Rather than focus on a prescriptive set of canons used in addressing NOS pedagogy in K-12 schools, this study seeks to explicate a descriptive set of principles based on Hans Georg-Gadamer’s theory of interpretation that has the potential for developing dispositions necessary for understanding. Central among these are the concepts of fore-structure, prejudice, temporal distance, and history of effect, all of which constitute part of the whole of the he

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Teeple, Jamie Eric. "A Philosophical Analysis of STEM Education." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543280674680388.

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Berman, Lucy. "Lewisian Properties and Natural Language Processing: Computational Linguistics from a Philosophical Perspective." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2200.

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Nothing seems more obvious than that our words have meaning. When people speak to each other, they exchange information through the use of a particular set of words. The words they say to each other, moreover, are about something. Yet this relation of “aboutness,” known as “reference,” is not quite as simple as it appears. In this thesis I will present two opposing arguments about the nature of our words and how they relate to the things around us. First, I will present Hilary Putnam’s argument, in which he examines the indeterminacy of reference, forcing us to conclude that we must abandon me

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Allen, Paul. "A philosophical framework within the science-theology dialogue, a critical reflection on the work of Ernan McMullin." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ66114.pdf.

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Bowman, Bayles R. M. "Science in its local context : the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society in the mid nineteenth century." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.419462.

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Qualtere-Burcher, Paul 1963. "Re-thinking the Doctor-Patient Relationship: A Physician’s Philosophical Perspective." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12146.

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xii, 163 p.<br>The principle of respect for autonomy has been the center of gravity for the doctor-patient relationship for forty years, replacing the previous defining concept of physician paternalism. In this work, I seek to displace respect for patient autonomy with narrative and phronesis as the skills that must be mastered by the physician to engender a successful therapeutic clinical relationship. Chapter I reviews the current state of affairs in the philosophy of medicine and the doctor-patient relationship and explains how and why autonomy has become so central to physicians' unders

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Gower, Simon Marcus. "Assessing the determinants of location : with particular reference to science parks in the United Kingdom; a philosophical investigation." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321593.

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Understanding of the 'market' for property development is critical to the procedure of property research. But this market's constitution is fundamentally derived from the end users of property - namely the occupiers / tenants. It in turn, therefore, becomes appropriate that an endeavour into property research explores what determines occupiers' / tenants' choice of location. By exploring the underlying logic and reasoning that the 'end users' of property bring to their decision-making we may come to a better understanding of the market. Science parks in the UK, and indeed globally, are typical

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Vierkant, Till. "Is the self real ? : an investigation into the philosophical concept of self between cognitive science and social construction /." Münster : Lit, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38989416b.

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Guala, Francesco. "Economics and the laboratory : some philosophical and methodological problems facing experimental economics." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1999. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/836/.

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Laboratory experimentation was once considered impossible or irrelevant in economics. Recently, however, economic science has gone through a real ‘laboratory revolution’, and experimental economics is now a most lively subfield of the discipline. The methodological advantages and disadvantages of controlled experimentation constitute the main subject of this thesis. After a survey of the literature on experiments in philosophy and economics (chapter one), the problem of testing normative theories of rationality is tackled (chapter two). This philosophical issue was at the centre of a famous co

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Smith, Paul B. "The materialist interpretation of John Millar's philosophical history : towards a critical appraisal." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1998. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1740/.

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This dissertation examines aspects of John Millar's philosophical history in order to provide grounds for a critical appraisal of the content of his contribution to social and historical science. Using Millar's published books and lectures in civil law as primary sources, it is suggested that Millar applied an empiricist method to the principles of jurisprudence. Millar shared this method with Hume and Smith. Implicit within the method was the abstraction of an ideal observer or spectator. This abstraction was derived from the use of an empiricist method to understand the operations of the min

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Smith, Lisa-Madeline. "Natural science and philosophical hermeneutics, an exploration of understanding in the thought of Werner Heisenberg and Hans Georg Gadamer." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq23667.pdf.

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Hendry, Robin Findlay. "Realism, history and the quantum theory : philosophical and historical arguments for realism as a methodological thesis." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1996. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1442/.

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Scientific realists and non-realists disagree over the reach of scientific knowledge: does it extend beyond the observational realm. Intuitions about abductive inferences are at the heart of many realist positions, but are brought into question by the non-realists' contention that theories are underdetermined by data, and the alleged circularity of realist attempts to show that such inferences are reliable. Some realists have tried to circumvent this problem by constructing methodological arguments for realism: if realism is embedded in scientific practice, the realist's picture of science mig

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Ongun, Mustafa. "Crisis of the public sector : a philosophical analysis of new public management through MacIntyre and Foucault." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2016. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/1124/.

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This thesis is a philosophical study of New Public Management (NPM). NPM is a theme used within the mainstream public management literature to explain and critically evaluate the changes that occurred within the public sector since the 1990s. In this study, I aim to develop the argument that there is a crisis in the public sector that results from the NPM regime. To develop this argument, I draw upon the Aristotelian philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre and identify two distinct spheres of the public sector: practices and institutions. I then argue that NPM generates a certain type of conflict bet

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Colborn, Robert Maurice. "Manilius on the nature of the Universe : a study of the natural-philosophical teaching of the Astronomica." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:481db8c5-4a3b-42ff-b301-eafc3e2f9ad8.

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The thesis has two aims. The first is to show that a more charitable approach to Manilius, such as Lucretian scholarship has exhibited in recent decades, yields a wealth of exciting discoveries that earlier scholarship has not thought to look for. The thesis' contributions to this project centre on three aspects of the poem: (I) the sophistication of its didactic techniques, which draw and build on various predecessors in the tradition of didactic poetry; (II) its cosmological, physical and theological basis, which has no exact parallel elsewhere in either astrology or natural philosophy, and

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Tuckett, J. D. F. "A phenomenological critique of the idea of social science." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21785.

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Social science is in crisis. The task of social science is to study “man in situation”: to understand the world as it is for “man”. This thesis charges that this crisis consists in a failure to properly address the philosophical anthropological question “What is man?”. The various social scientific methodologies who have as their object “man” suffer rampant disagreements because they presuppose, rather than consider, what is meant by “man”. It is our intention to show that the root of the crisis is that social science can provide no formal definition of “man”. In order to understand this we pr

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Garber, Margaret D. "Alchemical diplomacy : optics and alchemy in the philosophical writings of Marcus Marci in post-Rudolfine Prague 1612-1670 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3064469.

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Seakgwa, Kyle Vuyani Tiiso. "Exploring the philosophical mind: An empirical investigation of the process of philosophizing using the protocol analysis methodology." University of Western Cape, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7548.

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Masters of Art<br>Many empirically supported versions of stage and componential models of the cognitive processing underlying the completion of various tasks spanning a wide range of domains have been developed by cognitive scientists of various kinds. These include models of scientific (e.g. Dunbar 1999), mathematical (e.g. Schoenfeld 1985), artistic (e.g. Getzels and Csikszentmihalyi 1976), engineering (e.g. Purzer et al 2018), legal (e.g. Ronkainen 2011), medical (e.g. Vimla et al 2012) and even culinary cognition (e.g. Stierand and Dörfler 2015) (and this list is nowhere near exhausti

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Matsubara, Keizo. "Stringed along or caught in a loop? : Philosophical reflections on modern quantum gravity research." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-185554.

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A number of philosophical questions, all connected to modern research in quantum gravity, are discussed in this dissertation. The goal of research in quantum gravity is to find a quantum theory for gravitation; the other fundamental forces are already understood in terms of quantum physics. Quantum gravity is studied within a number of different research programmes. The most popular are string theory and loop quantum gravity; besides these a number of other approaches are pursued. Due to the lack of empirical support, it is relevant to assess the scientific status of this research. This is don

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Thistlethwaite, Max. "The mourning of lost autonomy : a philosophical and psychoanalytic critique on the objectification of fantasy." Thesis, Brunel University, 2017. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/16429.

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What or who is the modern subject? Are people sovereign, filled with passion, creativity, freedom and autonomy; or are we slaves, robots and automatons forever tied to the chains of civilization? It is very common to critique modernity. From the Frankfurt school to Foucault, many seem to have focused primarily on its negative characteristics including the promotion of narcissism and its contribution to alienation and depression. However, this work arose from my general ambivalence toward how society, and ideology, impacts notions of the self or, more importantly, self-consciousness and autonom

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McCallum, Jeffrey D. "Teleology in a developing universe a philosophical and theological investigation into the fine-tuning of the universe necessary for the existence of life /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Дольська, Ольга Олексіївна. "Нові методи та підходи можливі за умов розуміння нової науково-філософської раціональності". Thesis, ФОП Однорог Т. В, 2019. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/45504.

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Phillips, Christopher. "Socrates café: an effective mechanism for realising a more participatory democracy?" Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2009. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1897.

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This thesis interrogates the practices of the Socrates Café initiative since it was inaugurated nearly 13 years ago by the author of this dissertation. It seeks to critique whether Socrates Café – which strives to establish democratic communities of philosophical inquiry – has successfully embodied the stated goals of the non-profit Society for Philosophical Inquiry, or SPI, as enumerated on the website www.philosopher.org. These goals are to support “philosophical inquirers of all ages and walks of life as they become more empathetic and autonomous thinkers who take active part in creating a

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Reichard, Joshua David. "Pentecost, process, and power : a critical comparison of Concursus in Operational Pentecostal-Charismatic Theology and Philosophical Process-Relational Theology." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9850_1318250797.

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This doctoral thesis comprises a critical comparison of the theme of concursus, the way in which God and humanity interact, in the Pentecostal-Charismatic and Process-Relational traditions. The comparison is literature-based<br>similarities and differences in the theological literature of each tradition are compared in order to determine the extent of compatibilities and incompatibilities. The hypothesis is that similarities in the literature sufficiently leverage differences. The first chapter includes a statement of the problem, namely that the global expansion of the Pentecostal-Charismatic

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Bullock, Naomi J. "Factors Affecting Student Motivation and Achievement in Science in Selected Middle School Eighth Grade Classes." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2017. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/63.

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This study examines factors that affect student motivation and achievement in the middle school eighth grade science classroom, including, teacher-student relationships, student-peer relationships, teacher expectations in science, student preference of instructional delivery (labs vs. lecture), teacher demographics (experience at local school, professional experience, qualifications, age range), and student perceptions of teacher expectations in science. One hundred fifty survey participants were used in this quantitative study which included an analysis of the independent variables affecting

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Volpe, Tony. "Science et théologie dans les débats savants de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle : la Genèse dans les Philosophical Transactions et le Journal des Savants (1665-1710)." Paris, EPHE, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003EPHE5017.

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Au XVIIe siècle, dans la « République des Lettres », la communication a été facilitée par la fondation en 1665 des deux premiers périodiques scientifiques ; Journal des Savants à Paris et Philosophical Transactions à Londres. Une analyse statistique dans les domaines de l’astronomie, des mathématiques et de la physique, de 1665 à 1710, montre que les deux périodiques ont subi une évolution divergente. Puis leur étude comparative, à travers les rapports entre la Genèse et la science, permet d’analyser les différences entre les milieux érudits français et anglais dans la réception des ouvrages e

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Danylak, Barry. "A comparison of the portrayal of the role of God by Colin MacLaurin in "An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries" with that of his contemporaries." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Boulding, Jamie Timothy. "The multiverse and participatory metaphysics." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/290140.

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This dissertation brings a new philosophical perspective to an important topic in the contemporary theology and science dialogue, specifically the theological reception of multiverse thought in modern cosmology. In light of recent cosmological speculation about the plausibility of a 'multiverse,' a cosmic ensemble in which our own universe is just one of many, theological responses have largely focused on the question of whether such a multiverse might be an alternative to divine design (or might itself be compatible with divine design). However, this approach neglects the fundamental metaphys

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Byrne, Alan. "What causes an organisation to be what it is and to become what it could be: A philosophical expedition." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/55.

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This work represents the evolution of a thesis asking the question what causes an organisation to be what it is and to become what it could be. The author ' s thought development is integral to the project and is highlighted throughout. Conversation and relationship become privileged as the transformative cause of change; of being. This study faithfully reproduces how a thesis actually happens, with all the inherent uncertainty and messiness. The life experiences of the author are brought to bear in this autoethnographic study of the business world.

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Chandelier, Cédric. "Crise des mathématiques et de la physique et réflexion philosophique de 1890 à 1910 en France." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013MON30093.

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La réflexion des épistémologues français, dans les années 1890-1910, auplus près des transformations que connaissent alors les mathématiques et laphysique, prend la forme de la réhabilitation d’un lien naturel entre les sciences et laphilosophie, et aboutit à l’institutionnalisation de ce lien. Les débats qui opposentl’intellectualisme à l’anti-intellectualisme révèlent un continuisme historiqueparadoxal. La conscience épistémologique se présente comme le reflet dumouvement qu’elle imprime à la base de toute théorie. L’union duconventionnalisme et du bergsonisme dans un nouveau positivisme, ce

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Scotece, Tanya E. "Funeral Service Employers' Perceptions of Body Art and Hireability." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6025.

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The purpose of this research was to determine whether there were biases among funeral home and cemetery professionals with regards to hiring mortuary science graduates with tattoos. An anonymous survey including a photograph of either a male or female with various degrees of visible body art, ranging from none to extreme, was sent to 1484 members of the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association. The primary methodology used to determine whether biases existed regarding visible body art were a semantic differential and a hireability scale. The survey was designed to gather infor

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Franssen, Trijsje Marie. "Prometheus through the ages." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15889.

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This dissertation explores the role and significance of the ancient Greek myth of Prometheus in Western philosophy from Antiquity to today. Paying particular attention to its moral and existential meanings, an analysis of this in-depth investigation produces an overview of the exceptional array of the myth’s functions and themes. It demonstrates that the most significant functions of the Prometheus myth are its social, epistemic, ontological and moral functions and that the myth’s most significant themes are fire, rebellion, creation, human nature and ambiguity. The dissertation argues that th

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Mebius, Alexander. "Philosophical controversies in the evaluation of medical treatments : With a focus on the evidential roles of randomization and mechanisms in Evidence-Based Medicine." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Filosofi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-161489.

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This thesis examines philosophical controversies surrounding the evaluation of medical treatments, with a focus on the evidential roles of randomised trials and mechanisms in Evidence-Based Medicine. Current 'best practice' usually involves excluding non-randomised trial evidence from systematic reviews in cases where randomised trials are available for inclusion in the reviews. The first paper challenges this practice and evaluates whether adding of evidence from non-randomised trials might improve the quality and precision of some systematic reviews. The second paper compares the alleged met

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Schmidt, Jennifer. "Farming: It's Not Just for Farmers Anymore." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/109.

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Agricultural education, originally the province of land grant institutions, has recently entered the liberal arts curriculum. This represents a profound shift from the origins of agricultural education, when it was intended primarily as vocational training for future farmers, and has important implications for the future of the American food system. The first chapter of this thesis addresses the history of agricultural education: what was it originally like, and why did it come to be heavily criticized in the late twentieth century? Formal agricultural education changed significantly in respon

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Ferreira, Neto Arthur Maria. "Paradigmas científicos formadores do direito tributário brasileiro : proposta para uma ciência prática aplicável à tributação." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/134106.

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Três são os objetivos centrais deste trabalho: (a) especificar, por meio de uma reconstrução histórico-evolutiva do pensamento teórico, os elementos constitutivos (objeto, método, princípios primeiros, teoria da verdade e comunidade científica) e as exigências normativas (objetividade, coerência, clareza e transparência, justificação e consensualização) de um empreendimento que pretenda se qualificar como ciência, de modo propor uma concepção analógica de ciência que possa ser aplicável ao campo do direito; (b) identificar e detalhar os três diferentes paradigmas científicos que se desenvolver

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Lerner, Henrik. "The Concepts of Health, Well-being and Welfare as Applied to Animals : A Philosophical Analysis of the Concepts with the Regard to the Differences Between Animals." Doctoral thesis, Linköping : Linköpings Universitet, Dept. of Medical and Health Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11743.

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Lisbôa, Roseny Aparecida Miranda de. "Concepções sobre ciência e natureza: uma investigação das visões filosóficas de professores de física do ensino superior." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/81/81131/tde-17122015-105810/.

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O objetivo deste trabalho é pesquisar e classificar as diversas concepções filosóficas sobre o mundo físico e a ciência em um grupo específico de físicos: professores do Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo. O trabalho começou com a criação de um questionário envolvendo julgamentos ou opiniões sobre alguns assuntos da física, sempre procurando abordar conceitos fundamentais da filosofia da ciência, como verdade, realismo, reducionismo, determinismo, natureza do tempo físico, objetivos da ciência e visões religiosas. De posse desse questionário realizamos entrevistas com dez profess

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Sysak, Janusz Aleksander. "The natural philosophy Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge." Connect to thesis, 2000. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/2866.

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This thesis aims to show that Coleridge's thinking about science was inseparable from and influenced by his social and political concerns. During his lifetime, science was undergoing a major transition from mechanistic to dynamical modes of explanation. Coleridge's views on natural philosophy reflect this change. As a young man, in the mid-1790s, he embraced the mechanistic philosophy of Necessitarianism, especially in his psychology. In the early 1800s, however, he began to condemn the ideas to which he had previously been attracted. While there were technical, philosophical and religious rea

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