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Science and Technology in Indian Agriculture: History, Evolution and Emerging Challenges
This project is essentially a plan to write a book on the interrelationships between science, technology and agriculture in India, with specific reference to the challenges of sustainable development and climate change.
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Activist Language Scholarship: A Framework for Integrity
Our project joins sociolinguistics, philosophy of science, and research ethics in an extensive and close collaboration to explore the conditions of integrity in politically engaged scholarship.
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Biological Laws: Analogies and Allometries
The question of whether there are laws in ecology is important.
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The Pitfalls of Reductionism in Vaccine Research
Reductionism has been the predominant research strategy of molecular and structural biology in the 20th century.
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Consistent Quantification as a Unifying Principle in Physics and the Sciences
Science relies on numeric quantification, which can be traced back to Euclid, Galileo, and Newton.
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Homeostasis as a fundamental principle for a coherent theory of brains
Turner, J. Scott. 2019. Homeostasis as a fundamental principle for a coherent theory of brains. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Soci...
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The complexity of cell-biological systems
O Wolkenhauer and A Muir. 2009. The complexity of cell-biological systems. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, 16. Philosophy of Complexi...
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Complexity and transdisciplinarity – Discontinuity, levels of Reality and the Hidden Third
Paul Cilliers and Basarab Nicolescu. 2012. Complexity and transdisciplinarity – Discontinuity, levels of Reality and the Hidden Third. Futur...
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From Modernity to Cosmodernity: Science, Culture, and Spirituality
Basarab Nicolescu. 2014. From Modernity to Cosmodernity: Science, Culture, and Spirituality. SUNY Press, 282 pp. ISBN 978-1-4384-4963-0
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Science, Evolution, and Religion
Peterson, Michael and Michael Ruse. 2016. Science, Evolution, and Religion. New York: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academ...
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Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution
Ruse, Michael. 2016. Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.co...
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On the Plausibility of Intelligent Life on Other Worlds
Dunér, David. 2017. On the Plausibility of Intelligent Life on Other Worlds. Environmental Humanities, 9(2), 433–453. https://doi.org/10.121...
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Science, Evolution and Religion: A Debate about Atheism and Theism
Peterson, Michael and Michael Ruse. 2017. Science, Evolution and Religion: A Debate about Atheism and Theism. New York: Oxford University Pr...
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Ontological Expansion
Tuomi, Ilkka. 2018. Ontological Expansion. In Handbook of Anticipation. pp. 1–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/1...
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Pluralist structural realism: The best of both worlds?
Glick, David. 2019. Pluralist structural realism: The best of both worlds? Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02333-3
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Complexity and the Shift in Modern Science
Science has shifted in the last 120 years from a grounding in the Enlightenment ideas of formalism, determinacy, rationality, and stasis; to a new grounding in organicism, indeterminacy, contingent behavior, and evolutionary openness.
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Complexity and Anticipation
Complexity is possibly the most relevant scientific idea that emerged during the past decades.
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The Scientific Method in Biology and Biomedicine (2)
Work on the book ‘The Scientific Method in Biology and Biomedicine’ will be continued.
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The Scientific Method in Biology and Biomedicine
Philosophers tend to explain the success of the scientific enterprise in terms of a so-called scientific method believed to be typical of physics and chemistry.