Ryan E McCoy
Ryan E McCoy
This paper provides a methodological argument for local knowledge inclusion within climate research, as well as highlights the unique ethical and epistemic challenges in doing so. I first discuss the limitations of "top-down" modeling metho...
Frank Cabrera
Frank Cabrera
Although William Herschel (1738-1822) is most well-known as an astronomer and instrument-maker, he also had interests in speculative philosophy (e.g., metaphysics), as several papers he read at the Bath Philosophical Society reveal. These p...
Kelle Dhein
Kelle Dhein
Matthias Ackermann
Matthias Ackermann
Computer simulations are commonly employed when researchers work with analytically intractable or practically unsolvable mathematical modeling equations. In such cases, scientists seem to deal with two different but interrelated kinds of mo...
Embedded Ecology: The Partnership Flywheel for integrating local expertise [0.03%]
嵌入式生态学：整合本地专长的伙伴关系飞轮效应
Jesse Hamilton,Jacqueline Mae Wallis
Jesse Hamilton
There have been increasing calls to improve the integration of local expertise into both scientific research and evidence-based policy development, especially for urgent problems like climate change. There are both epistemic and ethical ben...
Rangga Kala Mahaswa,Ainu Syaja
Rangga Kala Mahaswa
This article explores the shifting dynamics of local wisdom (kearifan lokal) as a research category within Indonesian academic discourse, particularly as reflected in journal publications that prominently feature the term in their titles. A...
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction [0.03%]
共同体哲学？学术界与社区互动的可能框架
Yael Silver,Ayelet Shavit
Yael Silver
Interaction with local communities is commonly known as academia's "third mission," yet academia-community rifts are still common, running deeper in marginalized communities. A first step toward bridging the gap is clarification. We review ...
Trialability [0.03%]
试验性
Sven Ove Hansson
Sven Ove Hansson
A directly action-guiding experiment (trial) is an experiment performed to determine whether or to what extent some potential practical intervention has the desired effects. Clinical trials and agricultural field trials are prominent exampl...
Why did the dark matter hypothesis supersede modified gravity in the 1980s? [0.03%]
为什么暗物质假说在二十世纪八十年代取代了修改过的万有引力理论？
Antonis Antoniou
Antonis Antoniou
In the 1960s and 1970s a series of observations and theoretical developments highlighted the presence of several anomalies which could, in principle, be explained by postulating one of the following two working hypotheses: (i) the existence...
Yael Silver,Ayelet Shavit
Yael Silver
We argue that the typical meanings and operationalizations of diversity are practically linked to dichotomy and hamper equity practices in the academia. Scientists and scholars in mainstream Western society widely agree that achieving socia...