Science, medicine and nationalism in the Habsburg Empire from the 1840s to 1918 [0.03%]
从19世纪40年代到一战结束哈布斯堡帝国的科技、医学和民族主义
Tatjana Buklijas,Emese Lafferton
Tatjana Buklijas
The nature of extinction [0.03%]
灭绝的本性
Julien Delord
Julien Delord
The phenomenon of species extinction raises more and more concern among ecologists facing the actual crisis of biodiversity. Scientific investigations of the causes and effects of extinction must be completed by a philosophical analysis of ...
Medical ethics in the wake of the Holocaust: departing from a postwar paper by Ludwik Fleck [0.03%]
二战后莱德维希·弗莱克论文引发的医学伦理思考
Eva Hedfors
Eva Hedfors
In 1948 Ludwik Fleck published a paper in Polish discussing the use of humans in medical experiments, thereby addressing his peers. Though the paper has so far not been translated or studied, it has been taken to indicate Fleck's deep commi...
Breaking the ties: epistemic significance, bacilli, and underdetermination [0.03%]
突破认知束缚:知识意义、杆菌和无法确定性
Dana Tulodziecki
Dana Tulodziecki
One premise of the underdetermination argument is that entailment of evidence is the only epistemic constraint on theory-choice. I argue that methodological rules can be epistemically significant, both with respect to observables and unobse...
Statistics is not enough: revisiting Ronald A. Fisher's critique (1936) of Mendel's experimental results (1866) [0.03%]
统计学不够用——重新审视R.A.费希尔对孟德尔实验结果的批判(1936年 vs 1866年)
Avital Pilpel
Avital Pilpel
This paper is concerned with the role of rational belief change theory in the philosophical understanding of experimental error. Today, philosophers seek insight about error in the investigation of specific experiments, rather than in gener...
Scientific exchange: Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) and Emil Godlewski (1875-1944) as representatives of a transatlantic developmental biology [0.03%]
科学交流:杰克·洛伊布(1859-1924)与埃米尔·戈德莱夫斯基(1875-1944)——跨大西洋发育生物学的代表人物
Heiner Fangerau,Irmgard Müller
Heiner Fangerau
The German-American physiologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) and the Polish embryologist Emil Godlewski, jr. (1875-1944) contributed many valuable works to the body of developmental biology. Jacques Loeb was world famous at the beginning of th...
Resister's logic: the anti-vaccination arguments of Alfred Russel Wallace and their role in the debates over compulsory vaccination in England, 1870-1907 [0.03%]
抵制者的逻辑:阿尔弗雷德·罗素·华莱士的反疫苗接种论点及其在1870至1907年间英国强制接种疫苗辩论中的作用
Martin Fichman,Jennifer E Keelan
Martin Fichman
In the 1880s, Alfred Russel Wallace, the celebrated co-discoverer of natural selection, launched himself into the centre of a politicised and polarised debate over the unpopular compulsory vaccination laws in England. Wallace never wavered ...
Darwin and the linguists: the coevolution of mind and language, Part 1. Problematic friends [0.03%]
达尔文与语言学家:心智和语言的共同演化(一)问题朋友
Stephen G Alter
Stephen G Alter
In his book The descent of man (1871), Charles Darwin paid tribute to a trio of writers (Hensleigh Wedgwood, F. W. Farrar, and August Schleicher) who offered naturalistic explanations of the origin of language. Darwin's concurrence with the...
A translation of Carl Linnaeus's introduction to Genera plantarum (1737) [0.03%]
卡尔·林奈《植物种志》(1737)导言的译文
Staffan Müller-Wille,Karen Reeds
Staffan Müller-Wille
This paper provides a translation of the introduction, titled 'Account of the work' Ratio operis, to the first edition of Genera plantarum, published in 1737 by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778). The text derives its significan...
Staffan Müller-Wille
Staffan Müller-Wille
Historians and philosophers of science have interpreted the taxonomic theory of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) as an 'essentialist', 'Aristotelian', or even 'scholastic' one. This interpretation is flatly contradicted by what Linnaeus himself ha...