Darren Shickle
Darren Shickle
Large prospective biobanks are being established containing DNA, lifestyle and health information in order to study the relationship between diseases, genes and environment. Informed consent is a central component of research ethics protect...
Richard E Ashcroft,Adam M Hedgecoe
Richard E Ashcroft
Since the inception of the Human Genome Project, human genetics has frequently been conducted through big science projects, combining academic, state and industrial methods, interests and resources. The legitimacy of such projects has been ...
Grant Ramsey
Grant Ramsey
There are three related criteria that a concept of fitness should be able to meet: it should render the principle of natural selection non-tautologous and it should be explanatory and predictive. I argue that for fitness to be able to fulfi...
'Your true and proper gender': the Barr body as a good enough science of sex [0.03%]
«你的真正且恰当的性别»：巴氏体作为一种足够好的性別科学
Fiona Alice Miller
Fiona Alice Miller
In the late 1940s, a microanatomist from London Ontario, Murray Barr, discovered a mark of sex chromosome status in bodily tissues, what came to be known as the 'Barr body'. This discovery offered an important diagnostic technology to the b...
Bringing physics to bear on the phenomenon of life: the divergent positions of Bohr, Delbrück, and Schrödinger [0.03%]
物理学对生命现象的作用：玻尔、德尔布吕克和薛定谔的不同立场
Andrew T Domondon
Andrew T Domondon
The received view on the contributions of the physics community to the birth of molecular biology tends to present the physics community as sharing a basic level consensus on how physics should be brought to bear on biology. I argue, howeve...
Joel Michell
Joel Michell
As an aspiring science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, psychology pursued quantification. A problem was that degrees of psychological attributes (most importantly, then, intensities of sensations) were experienced only as g...
Psychoanalysis as functionalist social science: the legacy of Freud's 'Project for a scientific psychology' [0.03%]
作为功能主义社会科学的弗洛伊德《科学心理学纲要》遗泽
L E Braddock
L E Braddock
The paper links Freud's early work in the 'Project for a scientific psychology' with the psychoanalytic psychology of Kleinian object relations theory now current. Freud is often accused of introducing mechanism into his psychology and inst...
The medium of signs: nominalism, language and the philosophy of mind in the early thought of Dugald Stewart [0.03%]
符号的媒介——邓达尔·斯图亚特早期哲学中的唯名论、语言与心灵哲学
M D Eddy
M D Eddy
In 1792 Dugald Stewart published Elements of the philosophy of the human mind. In its section on abstraction he declared himself to be a nominalist. Although a few scholars have made brief reference to this position, no sustained attention ...
What's in a name? The vervet predator calls and the limits of the Washburnian synthesis [0.03%]
拟声之外：瓦什伯恩假说的局限性
Gregory Radick
Gregory Radick
After the Second World War, a renaissance in field primatology took place in the United States under the aegis of the 'new physical anthropology'. Its leader, Sherwood Washburn, envisioned a science uniting studies of hominid fossils with D...
A place that answers questions: primatological field sites and the making of authentic observations [0.03%]
一个解答问题的地方——灵长类动物学野外调查点与真实观察的形成
Amanda Rees
Amanda Rees
The ideals and realities of field research have shaped the development of behavioural primatology over the latter half of the twentieth century. This paper draws on interviews with primatologists as well as a survey of the scientific litera...