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• 1. Introduction: Evidence in Action Part I: Establishing Evidence: The Formation of Disciplinary Cultures
• 2. War, Wheat, and Crop Diseases of the Late Enlightenment: Contesting and Producing Evidence in Agriculture in Great Britain
• 3. Presenting Chemical Practice in Court: Forensic Toxicology in Nineteenth-Century German States
• 4. No "Mere Accumulation of Material": Fieldwork Practices and Embedded Evidence in Early (Latin) Americanist Anthropology Part II: Innovating Evidence: Contemporary Technoscientific Approaches
• 5. Prototyping Evidence: How Artifacts Demonstrate Technological Futures
• 6. On Top of the Hierarchy: How Guidelines Shape Systematic Reviewing in Biomedicine
• 7. On the (Im)possibility of Identifying the Evidence Base of the Impact of Star Architecture Projects Part III: Governing Evidence: Evidence-Based Practice and Politics
• 8. The Thing We Call Evidence: Toward a Situated Ontology of Evidence in Policy
• 9. "Drawing Thresholds That Make Sense": Diagrammatic Evidence and Urgency in Automatic Outbreak Detection
• 10. Producing Migration Knowledge: From Big Data to Evidence-Based Policy? Part IV: Contesting Evidence: The Politics of Heterodox Evidence
• 11. Fearful Narratives: Evidence Production in the Visual Rhetoric of the Historic Anti-vaccine Movement in the German States
• 12. The Politics of Evidence: State Secrecy, Ambiguity, and Counterforensic Practice in "Missing Persons" Cases in Pakistan
• 13. Digital Ethnographic Art(i)Facts as Evidence: Anthropological Entanglements between Techne and Episteme.
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This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge. The tensions between competing paradigms, different bodies of knowledge and the relative hierarchies between them are a crucial element of the historical and contemporary dynamics of scientific knowledge production. The negotiation of evidence is at the heart of this process. Starting from the premise that evidence constitutes a central, but also essentially contested concept in contemporary knowledge-based societies, this volume focuses on how evidence is generated and applied in practice-in other words, on "evidence in action." The contributions analyze and compare different evidence practices within the field of science and technology, how they interlink with different forms of power, their interaction with and impact on the legal and political domain, and their relationship to other, more heterodox forms of evidence that challenge traditional notions of evidence. In doing so, this volume provides much-needed context and historical background to contemporary debates on the so-called "post-truth" society. Evidence in Action is the perfect resource for all those interested in the relationship between science, technology, and the role of knowledge in society.
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• A new variety : science and technology in the first half of the nineteenth century
• From medicine to chemistry : Wilson's early years
• Unity in variety : Wilson's theology of nature
• Wilson's methodology of science
• The eye and the hand : Wilson's biological view of technology
• Wilson's Industrial Museum
• Epilogue : Victorian science and technology after George Wilson.

"This volume is a comprehensive study of George Wilson, a leading advocate for evangelical science and for the role of biology in technology, it examines his work to develop a unitary vision of Victorian science and technology by drawing upon religion, transcendental natural history and Baconian philosophy. George Wilson was the first Professor of Technology at the University of Edinburgh and the founding Director of the Industrial Museum of Scotland (now the National Museum of Scotland). Throughout his career he lectured and published on a wide range of topics, including the prospect of life on other planets, the history of science, natural theology, chemistry and poetry. His works were very popular, he was praised by Charles Dickens and his lectures drew large audiences, particularly women. Wilson sought to educate people about the significant scientific and technological developments taking place during the first half of the nineteenth century and create a unitary vision of science and technology"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Method-o-logical Diversity: Seeking Disciplinary Narrations Gita Chadha and Renny Thomas Part I: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: HUMANITIES Introduction to Part I
• 1. Methods in Substantivist Linguistics Probal Dasgupta
• 2. 'If Not Precisely a Science': The Provocations of Literary Studies Sharmila Sreekumar
• 3. Philosophy and Method Sundar Sarukkai Part II: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: NATURAL SCIENCES Introduction to Part II
• 4. The Methods of Mathematics Amber Habib
• 5. Questions of Method: The Philosophy and Practice of Modern Human Genetics Chitra Kannabiran
• 6. Chemistry, Method, Science, and Society: A Conversation Gita Chadha, Ram Ramaswamy and Renny Thomas
• 7. 'Between Clearing and Concealment': Knowledge-making in Physics K. Sridhar Part III: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: SOCIAL SCIENCES Introduction to Part III
• 8. Decolonising Method: Where Do We Stand in Political Studies? Aditya Nigam
• 9. Betwixt And Between?: Anthropology's Engagement with the Sciences and Humanities Kamala Ganesh
• 10. Economics, Feminist Economics, and Women's Studies: Methodological Orientations and Disciplinary Boundaries Neetha N.
• 11. Method, Object, and Praxis: Marx and the Historians of Science Rahul Govind
• 12. Psychology in India: Knowledge, Method, Nation Sabah Siddiqui
• 13. Geography in India: Gendered Concerns and Methodological Issues Saraswati Raju
• 14. Beyond the Postcolonial: Speculations on the Indian Contemporary Yasmeen Arif
• 15. Towards New Ecologies of Method: A Speculative Afterword Sasheej Hegde.
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This volume explores how the scientific method enters and determines the dominant methodologies of various modern academic disciplines. It highlights the ways in which practitioners from different disciplinary backgrounds -- the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences -- engage with the scientific method in their own disciplines. The book maps the discourse (within each of the disciplines) that critiques the scientific method, from different social locations, in order to argue for more complex and nuanced approaches in methodology. It also investigates the connections between the method and the structures of power and domination which exist within these disciplines. In the process, it offers a new way of thinking about the philosophy of the scientific method. Part of the Science and Technology Studies series, this volume is the first of its kind in the South Asian context to debate scientific methods and address questions by scholars based in the global south. It will be useful to students and practitioners of science, humanities, social sciences, philosophy of science, and philosophy of social science. Research scholars from these disciplines, especially those engaging in interdisciplinary research, will also benefit from this volume.
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• Prologue: Experiencing Wissenstransfer in the First Episteme: Mesopotamia Markham Geller Introduction: Making Sense of Nature in the Premodern World Katja Krause with Maria Auxent and Dror Weil Part I: Contextualizing Premodern Experience in Translation Experience and Knowledge among the Greeks: From the Presocratics to Avicenna Michael Chase Part II: Experience Terms Introduction. Experience Terms in Translation Steven Harvey
• Chapter 1: The Epistemic Authority of Translations: Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and John Buridan on Aristotle's empeiria Katja Krause
• Chapter 2: Scientific Tasting: Flavors in the Investigation of Plants and Medicines from Aristotle to Albert the Great Marilena Panarelli
• Chapter 3: Making Sense of ingenium: Translating Thought in Twelfth-Century Latin Texts on Cognition Jonathan Morton
• Chapter 4: The Encounter of Image and Xiang ( ) in Matteo Ricci's Western Art of Memory (Xiguo Jifa, 1596) Shixiang Jin Part III: Sciences and Scientific Norms Introduction: Experience, Translation, and the Norms of Science Jamie Cohen-Cole
• Chapter 5: Translating Method: Inference from Behavior to Anatomy in Avicenna's Zoology Tommaso Alpina
• Chapter 6: Translating from One Domain to Another: Analogical Reasoning in Premodern Islamic Theology (kalam) Hannah C. Erlwein
• Chapter 7: Can the Results of Experience Be the Premises of Demonstrations? Four Hundred Years of Debate on a Single Line of Maimonides's Treatise on the Art of Logic Yehuda Halper
• Chapter 8: The Weight of Qualities: Quantifying Temperament in Early Modern British Mathematical Medicine Julia Reed Part IV: Verbal and Visual Systems Introduction: Translation in Practice: Visualizing Experience Katharine Park
• Chapter 9: Translating Alchemical Practice into Symbols: Two Cases from Codex Marcianus graecus 299 Vincenzo Carlotta
• Chapter 10: Translating Medical Experience in Tables: The Case of Eleventh-Century Arabic Taqwim Works Dror Weil
• Chapter 11: From Textual to Visual: Translation and Enhancement of Arabic Experience in the New Book Genre Tacuina sanitatis of Giangaleazzo Visconti (c. 1390) Dominic Olariu
• Chapter 12: The Pictorial Idioms of Nature: Image Making as Phytographic Translation in Early Modern Northern Europe Jaya Remond Part V: Expertise in Translation Introduction: Expertise in Translation Sven Dupre
• Chapter 13: The Translator's Cut: Cultural Experience and Philosophical Narration in the Early Latin Translations of Avicenna Amos Bertolacci
• Chapter 14: Toledan Translators, Roger Bacon, and the Dynamic Shades of Experience Nicola Polloni
• Chapter 15: Table Talk Florence Hsia
• Chapter 16: The Experience of the Translator: Richard Eden and A Treatyse of the Newe India (1553) Maria Auxent Epilogue: Windows, Mirrors, and Beads Lorraine Daston.
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An innovative collection that showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science. Brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across premodern time and space. Explores four dimensions of translation in order to understand translation as a process of interaction between different epistemic domains.
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• Définitions et méthodes
• Une histoire littéraire de l'intérêt
• 1. Le discours méthodologique, 1750-1850
• Le discours méthodologique dans l'histoire
• Le "méthodologique" : une catégorie anachronique
• Méthode, méthodologie : proposition de définitions
• Le talent dans la méthodologie
• Des préceptes discriminants
• L'inégalité des observateurs
• La méthodologie répond à cette inégalité
• L'émulation : solution politique à la faillite de la preuve
• L'observation : entre valeur et "stéréotypage"
• Une faillite de la preuve
• L'émulation comme solution politique
• L'observation n'est pas scientifique
• "L'esprit universel des sciences et des arts"
• Unir lettres et sciences : un acte illocutoire
• Conclusion
• 2. L'observation au XVIIIe siècle
• Une nouvelle individualité : l'observateur
• Le génie observateur
• L'original observateur
• Le solitaire observateur
• L'observateur contre le philosophe
• L'observation et ses républiques
• Les enjeux politiques de la méthodologie
• "De différents observateurs", "Différence des esprits"
• Conclusion : les Lumières d'Asmodée
• 3. 8La révolution et le "moment 1800"
• Persistances : l'exemple des institutions montpelliéraines
• L'observation dans les allocutions institutionnelles
• Une rhétorique de l'émulation
• L'observateur dans la mêlée, de la Révolution à l'Empire
• Intervenir en observateur
• Moraliser l'observation
• Un nouveau modèle : mérite, éducation, norme
• Les instigateurs du nouveau modèle
• Friction entre deux modèles
• Conclusion : l'utopie en pratique
• 4. L'observation à l'âge romantique
• L'observation dans le champ politique : libéraux, socialistes, individualisme
• La Restauration : l'observation selon les libéraux
• La monarchie de Juillet : observation et "individualisme"
• L'observateur "malade du siècle"
• Observation et distinction
• La mode de l'observation dans les sciences et les lettres
• "Fatiguer son génie à trouver des distinctions"
• Vulgariser l'observation
• Conclusion : paraître observateur
• 5. L'observation objective
• L'objectivité met fin au génie observateur
• Un contexte favorable : la photographie, la statistique
• L'objectivité contre le génie observateur
• L'observateur chez Claude Bernard
• La reconversion de l'observation de soi
• Introspection et observation de soi
• S'observer : un nouveau détachement de soi
• Une politique du moi
• L'immoralisme de l'observation de soi
• Conclusion : réflexivité, réciprocité
• 6. La liitérature réaliste comme méthodologie
• Le trait d'observation : une nouvelle valeur littéraire
• L'observation dans la réception : tentatives d'approche
• Valeur littéraire et valeur sociale
• Le réalisme d'observation
• Réalisme et empirisme : de l'obscurité à la transparence
• Le réalisme sans la mimèsis
• Omniscience, énigme, observateurs anonymes
• Conclusion : un réalisme de la connivence sensible
• 7. De la méthodologie aux sciences de l'homme
• Un indice du glissement épistémologique : la substituabilité
• L'aveugle observateur
• Le fou observateur
• Le sauvage observateur
• Une réinterprétation actuelle : l'observation participante
• Généalogies de l'observation participante
• Métempsycoses littéraires
• Conclusion : le réel dans les sciences de l'homme
• Conclusion : Evidence et méthode, des objets de l'histoire littéraire ?

"Scientifique, impersonnelle, désengagée : aucun de ces adjectifs ne convient à l'observation entre 1750 et 1850. Ce qu'on appelait alors l'"esprit d'observation" était un talent universel, dont l'existence menaçait le consensus scientifique. Dans la philosophie sensualiste, plus un individu est observateur, plus il se perfectionne au contact du monde : l'observation ne dévoile la vérité qu'en faisant diverger les esprits. Pour résoudre ce dilemme, la méthodologie se fit politique et nourrit une pensée contestataire, de la bohème littéraire du XVIIIe siècle aux socialistes du XIXe. L'invention de l'objectivité finit par clore les débats, vers 1850, en annulant le génie d'observation au profit d'une substitution conventionnelle entre savants. Néanmoins, l'ancien schéma méthodologique se maintint dans la littérature réaliste. L'auteur observateur définit un réel commun à partir d'une négociation critique sur les talents. Cette littérature réaliste constitue donc une proposition épistémologique originale, qui interpelle encore nos sciences humaines."--Page 4 of cover.

• Foreword / Miranda Feliciano Tyson
• The age of inference / John R. McConnell, Sarah B. Dugger, and Philip C. Short
• Nature of the scientific enterprise / Harvey Henson
• The nature of science education : relativity of theory / Philip C. Short
• Mathematics : language, modeling, and comparison assisting inference / Mary Barone Martin, Tammy Jones, Dovie Kimmins, and Teresa Schmidt
• Statistics : developing impactful teaching and learning / Mary Barone Martin, Tammy Jones, and Teresa Schmidt
• Statistics : assessing success in the inference process / Mary Barone Martin, Tammy Jones, and Teresa Schmidt
• Children's literature resources to support authentic science practices and environmental decision-making : The conservation tales series / Tom J. McConnell and Barbara Giorgio-Booher
• Supporting statistical literacies in the context of a data visualization project with elementary students / Lynn Hodge, Joy Bertling, and Shande King
• Green literacy K-5 : nurturing a scientific mindset / Jen Cullerton Johnson and Mary K. Gove
• Complex multimodal text sets to support science literacy / William Romine, Amy Lannin, Torrey Palmer, Delinda van Garderen, Rachel Juergensen, Cassandra M. Smith, and William Folk
• Power up or put away? Using mobile phones for authentic student investigations / Kristin T. Rearden and Blanche O'Bannon
• Self-regulated learning theory to build scientific mindsets for diversity in STEM / Giuseppina Mattietti and Erin E. Peters-Burton
• A case for the model-based reasoning classroom / Arthur Beauchamp and Cynthia Passmore
• Cultivating a scientific mindset through inquiry-based science learning utilizing nasa resources for educators / Leslie Huling and Virginia Resta
• Bridging the disconnect between how we do and teach science : cultivating a scientific mindset in an era of data-driven education / Jana Bouwma-Gearhart
• The scientific method card game : applications for any educational context / Kallina M. Dunkle
• Toward a design-centered scientific mindset : closing the opportunity gaps via 3D design and printing in STEM teacher education / Lingguo Bu, Harvey Henson, and Euginia Nyirenda
• Developing critical literacy skills among diverse learners during the age of inference / Laveria F. Hutchison
• Content and pedagogical knowledge for teaching confidence intervals in a post p < 0.05 world / Jennifer J. Kaplan and Kristen E. Roland
• The multidimensional learning goals for making inferences with data / Ryan Seth Jones, Anna Strimaitis Grinath, and Fonya Scott
• Expectations and disciplinary blends / L. Jeneva Clark, R. Alexander Bentley, Nicholas N. Nagle, and Vasileios Maroulas
• Machine learning : a new lens for integrating computational thinking and science in the high school classroom / Michael Daley, Zhen Bai, Raffaella Borasi, and Dave Miller
• Becoming a postmodern STEM teacher leader in the age of inference / Rebekah Hammack
• Seeking homeostasis in a heteroscedastic world : a sense of the stakes in the age of inference / Philip C. Short, Donna F. Short, and John R. McConnell

In an age where we are inundated with information, the ability to discern verifiable information to make proper decisions and solve problems is ever more critical. Modern science, which espouses a systematic approach to making "inferences, " requires a certain mindset that allows for a degree of comfort with uncertainty. This book offers inspirations and ideas for cultivating the proper mindset for the studying, teaching, and practicing of science that will be useful for those new to as well as familiar with the field. Although a paradigm shift from traditional instruction is suggested in the National Framework for K-12 science, this volume is intended to help educators develop a personal mental framework in which to transition from a teacher-centered, didactical approach to a studentcentered, evidence-guided curriculum. While the topics of the book derive from currently published literature on STEM education as they relate to the National Framework for K-12 Science and the Three-Dimensional science instruction embedded in the Next Generation Science Standards, this book also examines these topics in the context of a new societal age posited as the "Age of Inference" and addresses how to make sense of the ever-increasing deluge of information that we are experiencing by having a scientific and properly discerning mindset.
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• Part I. Contexts: 1. Introduction
• 2. Four Case Studies of Science in Asia
• Part II. Circulations: 3. Leaving Home, Heading West
• 4. Learning Science in the West
• 5. Return to the Future or the Past?
• 6. Asian Women Scientists on the Move
• Part III. Consequences: 7. New Scientific Research Systems in a Changing Asia
• 8. Shifting Scientific Cultures in a Changing Asia
• 9. Conclusion.
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The growing scientific research output from Asia has been making headlines since the start of the twenty-first century. But behind this science story, there is a migration story. The elite scientists who are pursuing cutting-edge research in Asia are rarely 'homegrown' talent but were typically born in Asia, trained in the West, and then returned to work in Asia. Asian Scientists on the Move explores why more and more Asian scientists are choosing to return to Asia, and what happens after their return, when these scientists set up labs in Asia and start training the next generation of Asian scientists. Drawing on evocative firsthand accounts from 119 Western-trained Asian scientists about their migration decisions and experiences, and in-depth analysis of the scientific field in four country case studies - China, India, Singapore and Taiwan - the book reveals the growing complexity of the Asian scientist migration system.
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• Surveying and Planning
• Developing Human Resources : Education and Training in China
• Developing Human Resources : Education and Training in the United States
• China's War Production Board : Technical Collaboration for Wartime Purposes
• Training, Planning, and Reconstructing the Transnational Relationship in the Postwar Era

Building a Nation at War argues that the Chinese Nationalist government's retreat inland during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), its consequent need for inland resources, and its participation in new scientific and technical relationships with the United States led to fundamental changes in how the Nationalists engaged with science and technology as tools to promote development. The war catalyzed an emphasis on applied sciences, comprehensive economic planning, and development of scientific and technical human resources-all of which served the Nationalists' immediate and long-term goals. It created an opportunity for the Nationalists to extend control over inland China and over education and industry. It also provided opportunities for China to mobilize transnational networks of Chinese-Americans, Chinese in America, and the American government and businesses. These groups provided technical advice, ran training programs, and helped the Nationalists acquire manufactured goods and tools. J. Megan Greene shows how the Nationalists worked these programs to their advantage, even in situations where their American counterparts clearly had the upper hand. Finally, this book shows how, although American advisers and diplomats criticized China for harboring resources rather than putting them into winning the war against Japan, US industrial consultants were also strongly motivated by postwar goals.
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• Endless possibilities
• Life, the universe and everything
• The perfect circle
• Rock of ages
• A brief history of time
• Live free
• The magic orchid
• Does my dog love me?
• The universe through a keyhole.

"The complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it (minus the boring parts). Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what's happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely mislead us. "The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged)" tells the story of how we came to suppress our monkey minds and perceive the true nature of reality. Written with wit and humor, this brief book tells the story of science -- tales of fumbles and missteps, errors and egos, hard work, accidents, and some really bad decisions -- all of which have created the sum total of human knowledge. Geneticist Adam Rutherford and mathematician Hannah Fry guide readers through time and space, through our bodies and brains, showing how emotions shape our view of reality, how our minds tell us lies, and why a mostly bald and curious ape decided to begin poking at the fabric of the universe. Rutherford and Fry shine as science sleuths, wrestling with some truly head-scratching questions: Where did time come from? Do we have free will? Does my dog love me? Hilarious sidebars present memorable scientific oddities: for example, hypnotized snails, human-sized ants, and the average time it takes most animals to evacuate their bladders. (A surprisingly consistent twenty-one seconds, if you must know.) Both rigorous and playful, this book is a celebration of the weirdness of the cosmos, the strangeness of humans, and the joys and follies of scientific discovery"-- Provided by publisher.

"A novel attempt to explain why teens and adults often struggle with scientific explanation even thought young children clearly possess impressive causal reasoning skills"-- Provided by publisher.

• Science works
• Hubris in history and science
• Deceiving plants
• Deceiving animals
• Deceptive instincts in human nature
• Perception vs. belief
• White lies
• Lying in politics
• Forgery in art
• Truth and political correctness
• Science and the nature of truth
• The use of science in unmasking fraud in art and wine
• The fertile pastures of modern science for fraudsters to exploit
• Case study 1, William Summerlin
• Case study 2, Haruko Obokata
• Case study 3, Paolo Macchiarini
• Without conscience and the Walter Mitty syndrome
• Cloud cuckoo land
• Genius and the pursuit of originality
• Originality in the arts
• The two cultures
• The scientific Tower of Babel
• The Peter principle
• The prize problem
• Dealing with disappointment
• Managing expectations in cell biology
• Follow the example of Frederick Sanger
• Reconsidering the hierarchical structure
• The journal review process
• The recruitment process

This book is concerned with cheating in Science and the harm that it does, concentrating on three disasters in cell culture, which caused international concern and personal tragedy for the perpetrators. There is an overview of plant, animal and human cheating, providing a background to the focus on Science. This demands a special form of truth in that claims need to be substantiated by repetition in independent laboratories to confirm that the claims work. The nature of originality is examined in art and Science.An attempt has been made to determine the background and motives for cheating in Science in the certain knowledge that it will be unmasked leading to scandal.Advice is given to the young Scientist and suggestions have been made as to how fraud in Science could be reduced by more regulated supervision. There is a need to revise the regulations and assessment of claims of originality and the whole review process of journals to avoid publishing fake data.This text is unusual in focusing on three well-documented cases. The data should not have been published in high impact journals if more rigorous review had been made. Journals should require independent repetition of claims that seem to be 'too good to be true'. This little book should be of considerable interest to young scientists, historians of science and editors of scientific journals. The general reader might find it fascinating to learn how science works or does not work.
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• 1. From the Current Trends in Philosophy of Science to the Prospects for the Near FutureWenceslao J. Gonzalez Part I. Philosophy of Medicine and Climate Change2. Philosophy of science meets medicine (again): a clearer-sighted view of the virtues of blinding and of tests for blinding in clinical trialsJohn Worrall 3. Environmental decision-making under uncertaintyJoe Roussos, Richard Bradley, and Roman Frigg Part II. Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet4. Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Science from the 1990s to the early 2020sDonald Gillies and Marco Gillies 5. Whatever happened to the logic of discovery? From transparent logic to alien reasoningThomas Nickles 6. Scientific Side of the Future of the Internet as a Complex System. The Role of Prediction and Prescription of Applied SciencesWenceslao J. Gonzalez Part III. New Analyses of Probability and the Use of Mathematics in Practice7. From Logical to Probabilistic Empiricism: Arguments for PluralismMaria Carla Galavotti 8. Instrumental Realism
• A New Start for Mathematics and Scientific PracticeLadislav Kvasz Part IV. Scientific Progress Revisited9. Scientific Progress and the Search for TruthPhilip Kitcher 10. The Logic of Qualitative Progress in Nomic, Design, and Explicative ResearchTheo Kuipers Part V. Scientific Realism and the Instrumentalist Alternative11. Explicating Inference to the Best ExplanationIlkka Niiniluoto 12. Re-inflating the Realism-Instrumentalism ControversyStathis Psillos Index of NamesSubject Index.
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This book seeks to provide new perspectives, to broaden the field of philosophy of science, or to renew themes that have had a great impact on the profession. Thus, after an initial chapter to situate the current trends in philosophy of science and the prospective of the near future, it offers contributions in five thematic blocks: I) Philosophy of Medicine and Climate Change; II) Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet; III) New Analyses of Probability and the Use of Mathematics in Practice; IV) Scientific Progress Revisited; and V) Scientific Realism and the Instrumentalist Alternative. Within this framework, the volume addresses such relevant issues as the methodological validity of medical evidence or decision making in situations of uncertainty; recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and the future of the Internet; current forms of empirically based methodological pluralism and new ways of understanding mathematics with scientific practice; and the revision of the approaches to scientific progress based on the experiences accumulated in recent decades.
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• Les invisibles de la recherche. Un recensement
• Une population hétérogène et pérenne
• Un tableau contemporain
• Sur les lieux de travail
• Aux seuils des publications
• Bilan de parcours
• Au temps de la République des lettres
• Une évolution séculaire, XIXe-XXIe siècle
• Des emplois et des chiffres
• Du garçon de laboratoire au technicien spécialisé
• Nouvelles techniques et mutations des emplois
• La composante féminine
• Dans lis institutions de la science
• Quelques données historiques
• Des bastions féminins
• Dans le cercle domestique
• Une main-d'oeuvre familiale
• L'épouse derrière l'oeuvre
• Une population laborieuse. Concepts et réalités du travail subordonné
• Exécuter
• Des travailleurs d'arrière-plan
• Des recherches clivées
• Le sale boulot
• OEuvrer
• Au-delà d'un emploi
• Une conjugaison de savoirs
• Outre le "travail"
• Le peuple de la recherche. Une condition seconde
• Sous le signe de la domination
• Hiérarchie, hiérarchies
• Un fossé professionnel
• Un gap social
• Des pratiques d'absolutisme
• Des signes visibles de différenciation
• Propos de dominants
• Qualités attendues, qualités reconnues
• Serviteurs et non-personnes
• Vivre la domination
• Expériences
• Exploitation
• Résistances
• Obtenir la reconnaissance
• Des marques symboliques
• La signature.

"L'histoire de la science met en pleine lumière une élite de chercheurs, des pionniers, le plus souvent des hommes ; une élite encore magnifiée par le culte de l'excellence, la starification médiatique et l'hypervisibilité contemporaine. La société du savoir apparaît ainsi comme une société restreinte, une aristocratie sans peuple. Reste dans l'ombre une population qui pourtant participe à l'oeuvre scientifique. C'est à ces invisibles de la recherche que cet ouvrage est consacré. Fondé sur une documentation exceptionnelle réunie au long d'un vaste parcours dans le monde du savoir, du XIXe siècle à aujourd'hui, il donne à voir la présence nombreuse dans les institutions de la science d'ingénieurs et de techniciens, de secrétaires et de personnels de service, de précaires et de bénévoles ; il révèle aussi, derrière l'oeuvre, des filles et des épouses assistant un père, un mari. Observer l'activité de ces travailleurs en second montre qu'au-delà des tâches de service, d'exécution, de routine qui seraient le lot des "petites mains" de la recherche, se déploient des savoirs et des savoir-faire démentant l'idée d'un travail sans pensée. Écouter cette population laborieuse, c'est saisir le vécu de travailleurs subordonnés, entendre la demande de considération de l'individu laborans pour son travail et sa personne, autrement dit son désir de reconnaissance, déjà au sens le plus élémentaire : être vu, exister. Une histoire de la science revisitée."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: Design Make Play for Equity, Inclusion, and Agency
• Harouna Ba, Katherine McMillan Culp, and Margaret Honey
• Part I Designing for Visitors' Agency
• Chapter 1 Designing for Agency in Informal STEM Learning Environments
• Susan M. Letourneau
• Chapter 2 From Explaining to Engaging Visitors: Transforming the Facilitator's Role
• Priya Mohabir, Dorothy Bennett, C. James Liu, and Daisy Tetecatl
• Chapter 3 Narratives, Empathy, and Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineering Activities
• Susan M. Letourneau, Dorothy Bennett, Amelia Merker, Satbir Multani, C. James Liu, Yessenia Argudo, and Dana Schloss
• Chapter 4 Co-Designing Learning Dashboards for Informal Educators
• Elham Beheshti, Leilah Lyons, Aditi Mallavarapu, Wren Thompson, Betty Wallingford, and Stephen Uzzo
• Part II Relinquishing Power and Authority in Informal Settings
• Chapter 5 Museum-Community Engagement to Support STEM Learning
• Andres Henriquez and Marcia Bueno
• Chapter 6 Big Data for Little Kids: Developing an Inclusive Program for Young Learners and Their Families
• C. James Liu, Kate Maschak, Delia Meza, Susan M. Letourneau, and Yessenia Argudo
• Chapter 7 Designing Maker Programs for Family Engagement
• David Wells, Susan M. Letourneau, and Samantha Tumolo
• Chapter 8 Innovation Institute: Follow the Youth
• David Wells, Elham Beheshti, and Danny Kirk
• Part III Playing and Learning Across Settings
• Chapter 9 See, Touch, and Feel Math: Digital Design for English Language Learners
• Dorothy Bennett, Tara Chudoba, Xiomara Flowers, and Heidi Slouffman
• Chapter 10 Learning Physics through Embodied Play in a School Setting
• Harouna Ba, Christina O'Malley, Yessenia Argudo, and Laycca Umer
• Chapter 11 Integrating Computational Thinking Across the Elementary Curriculum: A Professional Development Approach
• Anthony Negron
• Chapter 12 The Pack: Playfully Embodying Computational and Systems Thinking
• Leilah Lyons, Stephen Uzzo, Harouna Ba, and Wren Thompson.
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This pioneering book offers a resource for educators, policymakers, researchers, exhibit designers, and program developers that illuminates creative, cutting-edge ways to inspire, engage, and motivate young people about STEM learning in both informal and formal education settings. A follow-up to the popular book Design, Make, Play (2013), this volume combines new research, innovative case studies, and practical advice from the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) to define and illustrate a vision for creative and immersive learning, focusing on STEM learning experiences that are truly equitable and inclusive, and that foster learners' agency. Featuring contributions from program developers, facilitators, educators, exhibit designers, and researchers, the book provides real-world examples from informal and formal settings that fill the need for high-quality STEM learning opportunities that are accessible to all learners, including groups underrepresented in STEM education and careers. Chapters of the book describe strategies such as using narratives to make engineering learning more inclusive, engaging English language learners in digital design, focusing on whole-family learning, and introducing underserved students to computational thinking through an immersive computer game. This book offers both a challenge and a guide to all STEM educators in museums, science centers, and other informal and formal education settings who are seeking out ambitious and more equitable forms of engagement. With leading-edge research and practical advice, the book provides appealing and accessible forms of engagement that will support a diverse range of audiences and deepen their approach to creative STEM learning.
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• Intro
• Preface
• Organization
• Keynote Talks
• Unsupervised Model Selection in Outlier Detection: The Elephant in the Room
• Coloring Social Relationships
• 35 Years of 'Scientific Discovery: Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes' - From the Early Days to the State of the Art
• Contents
• Regression and Limited Data
• Model Optimization in Imbalanced Regression
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Related Work
• 3 Imbalanced Regression
• 3.1 Relevance Function
• 3.2 Squared Error Relevance Area (SERA)
• 4 Optimization Loss Function for Imbalanced Regression

• 5 Experimental Study
• 5.1 Experimental Setup
• 5.2 Results on Model Optimization
• 5.3 Results in Out-of-Sample
• 6 Conclusions
• A SERA numerical approximation
• B Tables of Results
• References
• Discovery of Differential Equations Using Probabilistic Grammars
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Related Work
• 3 Methods
• 3.1 Algebraic Equations and Numeric Differentiation
• 3.2 Differential Equations and Direct Simulation
• 3.3 Parallel Computation
• 4 Experimental Evaluation
• 4.1 Experimental Setup
• 4.2 Results
• 5 Conclusion
• References

• Hyperparameter Importance of Quantum Neural Networks Across Small Datasets
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Background
• 2.1 Functional ANOVA
• 2.2 Supervised Learning with Parameterized Quantum Circuits
• 3 Methods
• 3.1 Hyperparameters and Configuration Space
• 3.2 Assessing Hyperparameter Importance
• 3.3 Verifying Hyperparameter Importance
• 4 Dataset and Inclusion Criteria
• 5 Results
• 5.1 Performance Distributions per Dataset
• 5.2 Surrogate Verification
• 5.3 Marginal Contributions
• 5.4 Random Search Verification
• 6 Conclusion
• References

• ImitAL: Learned Active Learning Strategy on Synthetic Data
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Simulating AL on Synthetic Training Data
• 3 Training a Neural Network by Imitation Learning
• 3.1 Imitation Learning
• 3.2 Neural Network Input and Output Encoding
• 3.3 Pre-selection
• 4 Evaluation
• 4.1 Experiment Details
• 4.2 Comparison with Other Active Learning Strategies
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Incremental/Continual Learning
• Predicting Potential Real-Time Donations in YouTube Live Streaming Services via Continuous-Time Dynamic Graph
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Related Work

• 2.1 Online Live Streaming Service
• 2.2 Dynamic Graph Learning
• 3 Methodology
• 3.1 Dataset
• 3.2 Dynamic Graph Generation
• 3.3 Temporal Graph Neural Network
• 3.4 Strategies for Data Imbalance
• 4 Experiments
• 4.1 Dataset Description
• 4.2 Experiment Setup
• 4.3 Baselines
• 4.4 Evaluation
• 4.5 Case Study
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Semi-supervised Change Point Detection Using Active Learning
• 1 Introduction
• 2 AL-CPD
• 2.1 Algorithm Outline
• 2.2 Selecting Candidate Change Points
• 2.3 Finding New Candidate Change Points
• 3 Experiments
• 3.1 Datasets

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2022, which took place virtually during October 10-12, 2022. The 27 full papers and 12 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. .
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• In Defense of the No-Miracles Argument
• Introduction
• The NMA
• Laudan's Objection
• The Rejection of the Demand
• IBE
• Evolutionary Theory
• The End of History Illusion
• Ad Hoc
• Empiricism
• Surrealism
• Predictive Similarity
• Summary
• References
• Critiques of the Pessimistic Induction
• Introduction
• The Pessimistic Induction
• Problematic Positions
• The Classic PI and IBE
• The Classic PI and Evolutionary Theory
• The Grand PI
• Four Intrinsic Problems
• The PUA
• The Relative PI
• The PI over Realists
• The Epistemic PI
• The Problem of Misleading Evidence
• Proportional Pessimism
• Summary
• References
• Critiques of Scientific Antirealism
• Introduction
• The PI Over Antirealist Explanations
• The PI Over Pessimists
• The PI Over Antirealists
• Explanation
• Prediction
• Two Epistemic Disadvantages
• Epistemic Reciprocalism
• Empiricism and the Problem of Unobserved Anomalies
• Constructive Empiricism
• Gap Antirealists
• Summary
• References
• Six New Arguments for Scientific Realism
• Introduction
• The Optimistic Induction Over Realists
• The Argument from Undiscovered Evidence
• The Argument from Neighboring Theories
• The Counter-Induction for Realism
• The English Notion of Rationality
• The Grand Optimistic Induction
• Tu Quoque
• Summary
• References
• Critiques of Five Variants of Putative Realism
• Introduction
• Entity Realism
• Minimal Realism
• Axiological Realism
• Van Fraassen's Definition
• Selective Realism
• An Analysis
• Common Problems
• Distinctive Problems
• The Pls against Selective Realism
• The Six New Arguments
• The Argument from a Bad Lot
• Summary
• References
• Formulating Scientific Realism and Antirealism
• Introduction
• Formulational vs. Epistemological
• Wide and Narrow Formulations
• Epistemic, Attributive, and Conditional Formulations
• A Pragmatic Advantage of the Epistemic Formulation
• Conceptual and Empirical Objections
• Doxastic Conditionalism
• Acceptance
• Summary
• References
• Scientific Realism and Scientific Understanding
• Introduction
• No Belief?
• Belief and Understanding
• Acceptance and Understanding
• Empiricism and Understanding
• No Justification?
• The Episode of Einstein
• Explanation or Prediction
• No Truth?
• Models
• Past Theories
• Anti-epistemism
• Summary
• References
• Scientific Realism and Scientific Progress
• Introduction
• The Historical Episode of Semmel weis
• The Problem-Solving Account
• The Semantic Account
• The Noetic Account
• The Epistemic Account
• The Evidential Account
• Content
• A Comparison with the Problem-Solving Account
• A Comparison with the Semantic Account
• A Comparison with the Noetic Account
• A Comparison with the Epistemic Account
• Objections and Replies
• Relationships to Realism and Empiricism
• Summary
• References
• Scientific Realism and Mathematical Realism
• Introduction
• Mathematical Realism
• The Abstract World
• The Argument from Language
• The Queer World
• Tricle
• The Essential Properties of Mathematical Objects
• The Epistemological Objection
• Causal Platonism
• The Indispensability Argument
• Content
• Standard Objections
• The Two Distinctions
• Interactive Theoretical Entities
• Mathematical Convenientism
• Mathematical Inferentialism
• Summary
• References
• Scientific Realism and Scientific Practice
• Introduction
• Scientistsʼ Meta-inductions and Historical Inductions
• The PI and the SI
• Realism and Scientific Practice
• Antirealism and Scientific Practice
• Pessimism
• Instrumentalism
• Surrealism
• Noncommittalism
• Contribution
• Summary
• References
• New Topics for Future Debates
• Introduction
• Stanford's Two Proposals
• Motivation
• Responses to Stanford's First Proposal
• Responses to Stanford's Second Proposal
• Future Topics
• Resolving Conflicts
• The Problem of Time Span
• The Problem of Selection
• The Unvirtuous Prediction
• The Problem of Scope
• The Argument from Double Spaces
• Summary
• References
• Index

This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contributions to the scientific realism debate. Readers will encounter old and new arguments for and against scientific realism. They will also be given useful tips for how to provide influential formulations of scientific realism and antirealism. Finally, they will see how scientific realism relates to scientific progress, scientific understanding, mathematical realism, and scientific practice. .
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• 1 Intersectional Identities in the Geosciences.- 2 Youths' Sense-Making and Participation in a Sociopolitical Science Unit on Type 2 Diabetes.- 3 Fostering Social Connectedness and Interest in Science Through Sports.- 4 Teacher Candidates and the Equitable, Inclusive Science Classroom.- 5 Re-Envisioning a Literacy-Centered Science Teacher Education in the Shadow of COVID
• -19: Towards Engagement and Change.- 6 Investigating the Impact of Sociotransformative Constructivism on the Professional Preparation of Pre-Service Science Teachers in Costa Rica.- 7 Designing Science Learning Environments that Support Emergent Multilingual Students to Problematize Electrical Phenomena.- 8 Inequalities in Digital Access and Digital Science Instruction Among Poor Rural Children.- 9 Post-Tenure Confessions of an Early Career Science Education Researcher.- 10 Striving for more: Beyond the Guise of Objectivity and Equality.
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This book focuses on the creative and transformative work of scholars who are advancing social justice through science/STEM education with limited resources. It draws attention to the significant body of work being conducted in various contexts so that readers could reflect and appreciate how much broader and transformative our impact could be if funding agencies, policy makers, and other researchers would widen their perspective and seek to promote social justice-driven scholarship. Public funding for STEM research on K-12 and teacher education that targets special populations is often limited and tends to favor mainstream research. This book contains case studies on innovative and promising STEM research with a focus on equity, diversity and social justice that are funded with limited or no public funding. It also presents anecdotes from authors in relation to their struggles in either securing funding for their reported study or seeking to publish its findings. This provides more context to the challenges of conducting non-mainstream research in science/STEM education. Most of the contributors are scholars of color and/or women conducting research with traditionally marginalized populations in science/STEM. Thus, this book offers an additional venue to share the voices of marginalized scholars and allies seeking to broaden our understanding of the challenges and successes of promoting equity, diversity, and social justice in various educational contexts.
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• Introduction. L'art de la trouvaille entre heuristique et rhétorique
• Pt. 1. Pour ou contre la méthode ?
• La pomme et la grenouille. Entre Histoire, fable et biographie : naissance et diffusion de deux récits de "Eurêka"
• De "l'éclair créateur" de Charles Nicolle (1932) à "la science de nuit" de François Jacob (1987)
• Réflexions sur le trait de génie en biologie
• La découverte scientifique chez Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) : travail et méthode
• Les voies de l'invention. Du faire cognitif au savoir-faire du corps
• Pt. 2. Les mots pour le dire. Rhétoriques et poétiques de la découverte et de l'invention
• Une obscure divination : Proust dans le sillage de Poincaré
• L'effet papillon ? La découverte selon Alfred Russel Wallace
• Le mouvement, la vie et l'intelligence : une préhistoire du mouvement brownien et de son importance pour la micrographie
• La fabrique d'une évidence : transmutation et végétation dans les Nouvelles observations microscopiques de John Tuberville Needham (1750)
• "C'est comme œuf" : Paul Lorenzen et l'effondrement des preuves de non-contradiction
• "Nous sommes de race divine !" La création de l'infini actuel : Pœ, Cantor, Dedekind.

"Comment trouve-t-on ? Comment en vient-on à concevoir et à dire quelque chose de nouveau qui viendra peut-être enrichir le réservoir des œuvres de connaissance ? Y a-t-il une heuristique de l'invention ? Et avec quels mots se dit-elle ? Comment les savants modélisent-ils l'impulsion créatrice, comment racontent-ils le moment exceptionnel de la trouvaille ? Pour répondre à ces questions, cet ouvrage entre dans l'intimité de l'expérience vécue et racontée par les savants. Leurs récits sont beaucoup plus que la simple trace d'un travail de création, ils sont une source privilégiée pour comprendre la manière dont se construit la légitimité savante dans une tension entre fable et histoire, témoignage et fiction, volonté de comprendre et désir de convaincre. D'où la lecture stéréoscopique proposée par les études réunies ici, qui mêlent enquête historique et analyse poético-rhétorique pour saisir les deux versants, narratif et cognitif, de l'invention."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction. Le genre, une omission scientifique qui ne tient plus
• La rencontre entre les recherches féministes et les Science Studio
• La diffusion de la théorie critique féministe des sciences en France
• La genèse du projet
• Les approches épistémologiques du genre au prisme des sciences
• Quand les savoirs trans et intersexes problématisent les sciences
• Le genre de la médecine et des sciences de la reproduction
• Pt. 1. Genre et sciences : approches épistémologiques
• Le dimorphisme sexuel de la masse grasse dans l'espèce humaine : une représentation genrée de la physiologie du tissu adipeux
• Le dimorphisme sexuel dans le pourcentage et la répartition des dépôts adipeux une caractéristique de l'espèce humaine.
• Un rôle du dimorphisme sexuel des masses grasses dans la reproduction?
• Un rôle du dimorphisme sexuel des masses grasses dans la survie ?
• Elles ont révolutionné la toxicologie. Rachel Carson Ettheo Colborn, pionnières dans la découverte des perturbateurs endocriniens
• Toxicologie traditionnelle : socle de la réglementation des substances chimiques
• Le système endocrinien et son fonctionnement
• Rachel Carson et Silent Spring (1962)
• Iheo Colbom "la mère des perturbateurs endocriniens (1991)
• Peut-on négliger le sexe dans la recherche biomédicale
• Maladies de femmes te maladies d'hommes ? La physiopathologie diffère-t-on le sexe
• La recherche clinique inclut-elle suffisamment de femmes
• La recherche fondamentale prend-elle suffisamment en compte le sexe des modèles
• Qu'appelle-t-on hormones sexuelles et quels sont leurs effets ?
• Hormones mâles vs hormones femelles : un dogme à revisiter ?
• Et les gènes dans tout ça ?
• Une médecine inadaptée aux femmes car négligeant leur différence biologique ? Retour aux sources et analyse critique d'un discours propagé en France depuis les années 2010
• Construction états-unienne
• Une propagande trompeuse diffusée en France
• Pt. 2. Les sciences au prisme des savoirs trans et inter
• Médecine et interseuation. Regards juridiques français
• Médecine et assignation du genre
• Médecine et assignation du sexe
• "Ici il ne s'est rien passe." cisexisme et politiques de l'ignorance en argentine
• Épistémologie de l'ignorance
• La Loi Argentine d'Identité de Genre et ses innovations conceptuelles
• Le déploiement quotidien de l'ignorance : trois scènes
• Articulations entre ignorance active et cis-sexisme
• Enjeux et tensions entre savoirs trans et savoirs sur les trans : savoirs situés et injustices épistémiques
• Transgentler Studio : un champ d'étude [intrinsèquement] critique
• Cisnormativité et injustices épistémiques
• Sciences, transphobie, autonomie trans et lutte contre le cis-sexisme
• Pt. 3. Le genre de la santé : médecine, reproduction et maternités
• Faire de l'avortement "un acte médical comme un autre" : les enjeux croisés de spécialisation et de genre dans la lutte pour l'avortement libre
• L'avortement militant, terrain parallèle de pratique médicale
• L'éviction de points de vue féministes
• De l'examen à la prescription de contraception orale en consultation gynécologique : le genre de l'injonction
• L'examen gynécologique : enjeu sous-jacent de la médicalisation de la contraception
• Une place variable de l'examen selon les structures
• UHAS recommande les frottis tous les trois ans, moi je pré te tous les deux ans : une survalorisation de l'acte selon les motifs de consultation
• La contraception médicalisée : rapport à l'ordre médical et de genre
• Un accès inégal aux moyens de gestion de la fécondité selon les cures ?
• L'exemple de l'IVG en hôpital, dans le cadre de consultations de CDPEF
• Du degré d'injonction à la contraception selon le nombre d'IVG
• "n'oubliez jamais que toutes les femmes sont des salopes...
• Nouvelles perspectives du soin à l'épreuve de l'ordre médical
• L'héritage maternel jusque dans les gènes : généalogie sexuelle d'un programme de biosciences
• L'histoire d'un engouement : mise en politique d'un programme de santé reproductive publique made in USA
• "Out of America. "La réception transatlantique du programme des mille jours.

"Comment et en quoi les études sur le genre permettent de retravailler les disciplines scientifiques ? Comment la pré-valence de l'androcentrisme des sciences crée des apories au sein des connaissances scientifiques ? En quoi le prisme du genre peut-il requestionner les pratiques scientifiques, particulièrement au sein des sciences dites "dures" et expérimentales ? En quoi le genre permet aussi de renouveler ler l'appréhension des pratiques militantes et professionnelles ? et ouvrage s'intéresse aux apports du genre, un concept u des sciences humaines et sociales qui tend à s'appliqu r à la réflexion scientifique menée au sein d'autres mondes de la recherche. Cette inclusion permet de pointer les écueils, dans des domaines scientifiques longtemps restés hermétiques aux enjeux du genre. Il rend compte de travaux récents questionnant les enjeux épistémologiques de la critique féministe des sciences, mais aussi portant sur les questions d'identité de genre ainsi que de santé et de contrôle de la sexualité. II réunit des recherches inédites émanant de diverses disciplines scientifiques : pharmacologie, physiologie, biologie, toxicologie, mais aussi sociologie, anthropologie, histoire, droit et philosophie, présentées par des spécialistes des sciences sociales et des études de genre comme par des Fornnières et pionniers ayant relevé le challenge de croiser s enjeux de genre à des objets de recherche nouveaux. Son originalité tient également à l'apport de réflexions croisées sur les enjeux contemporains du genre émanant des pratiques ancrées sur les terrains militants et professionnels."--Page 4 of cover.

• Section 1: Engaging in Science Teacher Education Research Section Editor: Julie A. Luft
• The Importance of Research in Science Teacher Education Sibel Erduran and Liam Guilfoyle
• The Contribution of Large Educational Surveys to Science Teacher Education Research Robert H. Tai, Joseph Taylor, Vijay Reddy, and Eric R. Banilower
• Qualitatively Conducting Teacher Education Research Felicia Moore Mensah and Jessica L. Chen
• Mixed Methods Research on Science Teacher Education Gayle A. Buck and Francesca A. Williamson
• Towards Justice: Designing for a Rightful Presence as a Lens for Science Teacher Education Research Angela Calabrese-Barton, Edna Tan, Kathleen Schenkel, and Aerin Benavides
• Section 2: Initial Science Teacher Education - Core Areas
• Section Editor: Sarah Carrier
• Preparing Early Childhood Teachers to Support Young Children's Equitable Science Sensemaking Carla Zembal-Saul, Christina Siry, Sabela F. Monteira, and Frances Nebus Bose
• Well-Started Beginners: Preparing Elementary Teachers for Rigorous, Consequential, Just, and Equitable Science Teaching Elizabeth A. Davis and Christa Haverly
• Research on Secondary Science Teacher Preparation Todd Campbell, Ron Gray, Xavier Fazio, and Jan van Driel
• Understanding the Role of Field Experiences in Preservice Science Teacher Preparation David Stroupe
• Recent Trends in Science Education Research on Mentoring Pre-Service Teachers Leslie U. Bradbury
• Alternative Pathways to Science Teaching: Approaches and Impacts Elizabeth Edmondson, Alison Dossick, Smadar Donitsa-Schmidt, Yehudit Judy Dori,
• Christine Ure, and Christel Balck Section 3: Initial Teacher Preparation - Situated Aspects Section Editor: David F. Jackson
• Preservice Science Teacher Education Around the Globe: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions Hernan Cofre, Claudia Vergara, David Santibanez, and Jose Pavez
• Partnerships in K-12 Preservice Science Teacher Education Andrew Gilbert and Linda Hobbs
• The Magic of Informal Settings: A Literature Review of Partnerships and Collaborations that Support Preservice Science Teacher Education Across the Globe Natasha Cooke-Nieves, Jamie Wallace, Preeti Gupta, and Elaine Howes
• Discursive Practices in Initial Science Teacher Education Merce Izquierdo, Ainoa Marzabal, Cristian Merino, Valeria Cabello, Patricia Moreira, Luigi Cuellar, Virginia Delgado, Franklin Manrique, and Macarena Soto
• The Role of Emerging Technologies in Science Teacher Preparation Gina Childers and Rebecca Hite
• Policy in K-12 Science Teacher Preparation: Uniformity and Diversity from International Perspectives Cheng Liu, Wenyuan Yang, and Enshan Liu
• Section 4: Science Teacher Continuing Professional Development
• Section Editor: Lauren Madden
• The Learning Opportunities of Newly Hired Teachers of Science Shannon L. Navy, Julie A. Luft, and Audrey Msimanga
• Science Teacher Leadership: The Current Landscape and Paths Forward Brooke A. Whitworth, Julianne A. Wenner, and Dorit Tubin
• Professional Development of Science Teachers for Inquiry Instruction Umesh Ramnarain, Daniel Capps, and Ying-Shao Hsu
• A Literature Review of Global Perspectives on the Professional Development of Culturally Responsive Science Teachers Julie C. Brown, Rose M. Cringle, and Nihat Kotluk
• Professional Learning Communities Across Science Teachers' Careers: The Importance of Differentiating Learning Ron Blonder and Vicki Vescio
• Digital Technologies and Professional Learning of Science Teachers: A Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) Perspective Seng Chee Tan, Tang Wee Teo, and Chin-Chung Tsai
• Section 5: Science Teacher Education -Central Tenets Section Editor: Soonhye Park
• Science Teacher Professional Knowledge and Its Relationship to High-Quality Science Instruction Vanessa Kind, Soonhye Park, and Kennedy Kam Ho Chan
• Indigenous Knowledge in Science Education: Implications for Teacher Education Josef de Beer, Neal Petersen, and Meshach Ogunniyi
• Action research: A Promising Strategy for Science Teacher Education Allan Feldman, Nadja Belova, Ingo Eilks, Marika Kapanadze, Rachel Mamlok-Naaman,
• Franz Rauch, and Mehmet Fatih Tasar
• Including All Learners through Science Teacher Education Michele Hollingsworth Koomen, Sami Kahn, and Teresa Shume
• The Role of Teacher Education in Teaching Science to Emergent Bilingual Learners Edward G. Lyon and Sara Tolbert
• Educative Curriculum Materials and Their Role in the Learning of Science Teachers Melina Furman, Mariana Luzuriaga, Margarita Gomez, and Mauricio Duque
• Section 6: Science Teacher Education - Emerging Areas Section Editor: Rachel Mamlok-Naaman
• Learning to Teach Controversial Topics Michael J. Reiss
• Professional Identity as a Framework for Science Teacher Education and Professional Development Dana Vedder-Weiss
• Emotion and Science Teacher Education Alberto Bellocchi and Arnau Amat
• Learning to Teach Science from a Contextualized Stance Michael Giamellaro, Kassandra L'Heureux, Cory Buxton, Marie-Claude Beaudry,
• Jean-Philippe Ayotte-Beaudet, and Talal Alajmi
• Learning in and Through Researcher-Teacher Collaboration Carrie D. Allen, Sara C. Heredia, Eve Manz, and William (Bill) Penuel
• Integrated STEM Teacher Education: An Opportunity for Promoting Equity Erin E. Peters-Burton and Kelly L. Knight.
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-Offers a contemporary and thorough review of research pertaining to the preparation, induction, and ongoing professional learning of K-12 science teachers, drawing from over 60 international contributors. -Chapters are research-focused but also provide actionable, empirically-based suggestions for science teacher educators who work directly with teachers, emphasizing the link between research and practice. -Covers established, emergent, and cutting-edge areas of research, including research methods and methodologies in science teacher education; the demographics of the global science teaching workforce (and their educators); initial teacher preparation in both higher education and non-higher education settings; emerging areas in science teacher education; professional learning of in-service science teachers; and policy and its impact on science teacher education.
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This data book of scientific information is an essential guide for all STEM researchers, teachers and students. It comprises six sections on astronomy, meteorology, physics/chemistry, earth science, biology, and environmental science.The book is useful not only for researchers and engineers, but also for science writers, as it covers carefully selected and important data that have been reviewed by experts from diverse fields for over 90 years.
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• Introduction.- Natural History and Evolution.- Agriculture.- Medicine, Genetics and Radiation.- Race Studies and Science Policy.
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This volume provides a definitive assessment of the historiography of the life sciences and medicine in Latin America. It makes historiographic work available for new scholars to join the field and for graduate students and other scholars new to the history of science in Latin America, by means of meaningful and original contributions.This volume brings transnational analysis to the center of global historiographical discussions. It seeks to contribute both empirically and theoretically to the fields of History of Science and Science and Technology Studies (STS) in Latin America, to account for how the knowledge produced in developing countries is part of international knowledge as it circulates in transnational collaborative networks. The volume consists of articles written by experienced, expert authors who expose the lines of ongoing research in the history of life sciences and medicine in Latin America in order to provide an overview of the multiplicity of analytic frameworks and perspectives in a way that allows them to be contrasted with each other. Some of the topics discussed include Asymmetrical networks of collaboration, Circulation of Knowledge, Conceptual History, History and Art, History of Race, Gender and the like, and many more. .
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הצורך בחשיבה ביקורתית בתחום המדעי הפך להיות הכרחי לשם קבלת החלטות יום-יומיות בתקופת הקורונה. מספרים, אחוזים ומחקרים הציפו את התקשורת, מעורבבים באווירה של פייק ניוז, פוסט-אמת וקונספירציה. לצרכן התקשורת המצוי לא היו כלים להתמודד עם המידע המדעי. ספרו של שלמה קניאל נועד לאפשר להבחין בין מאחז עיניים לבין מומחים; הוא מבקש למצוא את האיזון בין ציות עיוור לכל מידע המופיע בלבוש מחקרי לבין זלזול במדע. חלקו הראשון של הספר דן בתחום האוריינות המדעית: חקר השיח המדעי וגבולות השפה, מדע כמייצר מידע, מעשי רמייה והטיות אנושיות, יוהרת המדענים ופסבדו-מדע המורידים את כוחו והשפעתו על המדע. החלק שני עוסק באבני הבניין של החשיבה הביקורתית: מסגור ונרטיב, הכללה, אינדוקציה ודדוקציה, השוואה ואנלוגיה, לכידות ועקביות, הערכה ומדידה, חשיבה סיבתית מעגלית וחשיבה הסתברותית. החלק השלישי עוסק בחשיבה ביקורתית בדגש על המחקר, החוקר והנחקר, כמו למשל הבחנה בין עובדות, ראיות ומסקנות; הבחנה בין סקר למחקר ובין מדע פופולרי למדע תקני; הטיות הפרסום וההשוואות המרובות; בעיות בשיפוט מדעי, מערכי מחקר שונים, כלי המדידה, היבטים ביקורתיים על השערות המחקר והדרכים להסיק מסקנות ביחס לדחייה וקבלת השערות, מובהקוּת ומשמעות. החלק הרביעי מתמקד בחוקרים והנחקרים: דרכי הדגימה והייצוג, הטיות שונות, השפעות החוקר על המחקר והנחקר בדרכים גלויות וסמויות, לצד דיון בחשיבות הספקנות, הענווה, הסקרנות והקוד האתי של החוקרים. הצורך בחשיבה ביקורתית בתחום המדעי הפך להיות הכרחי לשם קבלת החלטות יום-יומיות בתקופת הקורונה. מספרים, אחוזים ומחקרים הציפו את התקשורת, מעורבבים באווירה של פייק ניוז, פוסט-אמת וקונספירציה. לצרכן התקשורת המצוי לא היו כלים להתמודד עם המידע המדעי. ספרו של שלמה קניאל נועד לאפשר להבחין בין מאחז עיניים לבין מומחים; הוא מבקש למצוא את האיזון בין ציות עיוור לכל מידע המופיע בלבוש מחקרי לבין זלזול במדע. חלקו הראשון של הספר דן בתחום האוריינות המדעית: חקר השיח המדעי וגבולות השפה, מדע כמייצר מידע, מעשי רמייה והטיות אנושיות, יוהרת המדענים ופסבדו-מדע המורידים את כוחו והשפעתו על המדע. החלק שני עוסק באבני הבניין של החשיבה הביקורתית: מסגור ונרטיב, הכללה, אינדוקציה ודדוקציה, השוואה ואנלוגיה, לכידות ועקביות, הערכה ומדידה, חשיבה סיבתית מעגלית וחשיבה הסתברותית. החלק השלישי עוסק בחשיבה ביקורתית בדגש על המחקר, החוקר והנחקר, כמו למשל הבחנה בין עובדות, ראיות ומסקנות; הבחנה בין סקר למחקר ובין מדע פופולרי למדע תקני; הטיות הפרסום וההשוואות המרובות; בעיות בשיפוט מדעי, מערכי מחקר שונים, כלי המדידה, היבטים ביקורתיים על השערות המחקר והדרכים להסיק מסקנות ביחס לדחייה וקבלת השערות, מובהקוּת ומשמעות. החלק הרביעי מתמקד בחוקרים והנחקרים: דרכי הדגימה והייצוג, הטיות שונות, השפעות החוקר על המחקר והנחקר בדרכים גלויות וסמויות, לצד דיון בחשיבות הספקנות, הענווה, הסקרנות והקוד האתי של החוקרים.

• List of Illustrations List of Connections Boxes Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The Origins of Natural Philosophy 2. The Roman Era and the Rise of Islam 3. The Revival of Natural Philosophy in Western Europe 4. Science in the Renaissance: The Courtly Philosophers 5. The Scientific Revolution: Contested Territory 6. The Enlightenment and Enterprise 7. Science and Empire 8. Entering the Atomic Age 9. Science and War 10. The Death of Certainty 11. 1957: The Year the World Became a Planet 12. Man on the Moon, Microwave in the Kitchen 13. Science and New Frontiers: Potential and Peril in the New Millennium
• Further Reading Index.
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In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. The fourth edition of this bestselling textbook brings the narrative right up to the present day by incorporating the COVID-19 pandemic. The edition also adds content on Indigenous and non-western science as well as five new "Connections" case study features, including one on the scientist and poet Omar Khayyam. The text is accompanied by 100 images and maps and a colour insert showing off key moments in the history of science. Essay questions, chapter timelines, a further readings section, and an index provide additional support for students.
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• Introduction Suvobrata Sarkar
• Section I: Science and Society 1. Medicine, natural history and the curious case of Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty John Mathew 2. Examining the foundations of science: an essay on Ramendra Sundar Trivedi's epistemological inquiries Santanu Chacraverti 3. Professor Balaji Prabhakar Modak - a forgotten science propagator from Maharashtra Abhidha Dhumatkar 4. Cultural politics of engagement: Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad and the shaping of a scientific-citizen public in Kerala Shiju Sam Varughese
• Section II: Technology and Culture 5. Electrification and urbanization in Madras, 1895-1930 Y. Srinivasa Rao 6. Academic engineering and India's colonial encounter: Bengal Engineering College, Sibpur a historical perspective Suvobrata Sarkar 7. Of geologists and water-diviners: the quest for groundwater knowledge in mid-twentieth century India Kapil Subramanian 8. From battlefields to homes: oil's imperial and quotidian life in colonized and independent India Sarandha Jain
• Section III: Environmental Issues 9. Designing scientific mining: evolution and implementation, c. 1860s-1930s Sahara Ahmed 10. On grazing lands and cultivated fodder Himanshu Upadhyaya 11. Deforestation, ecological deterioration and scientific forestry in Purulia, 1890s-1960s Nirmal Kumar Mahato
• Section IV: Medical Encounters 12. Where man meets medicine: some reflections on The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Ayurveda with its epistemological consequences Jayanta Bhattacharya 13. Therapeutic ideas and practices of tuberculosis in the Madras Presidency, 1910-1947 B Eswara Rao 14. A case for the social history of homoeopathic hospitals in India: an invitation for its construction and rendition Dhrub Kumar Singh 15. Saviour sisters: services of the Delhi female medical missionaries in late colonial India Ch. Radha Gayathri.
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This volume studies the concept and relevance of HISTEM (History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine) in shaping the histories of colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Tracing its evolution from the establishment of the East India Company through to the early decades after the Independence of India, it highlights the ways in which the discipline has changed over the years and examines the various influences that have shaped it. Drawing on extensive case studies, the book offers valuable insights into diverse themes such as the East-West encounter, appropriation of new knowledge, science in translation and communication, electricity and urbanization, the colonial context of engineering education, science of hydrology, oil and imperialism, epidemic and empire, vernacular medicine, gender and medicine, as well as environment and sustainable development in the colonial and postcolonial milieu. An indispensable text on South Asia's experience of modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian studies, modern Indian history, sociology, history of science, cultural studies, colonialism, as well as studies on Science, Technology, and Society (STS).
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• Origin myths
• The first Philosophical Transactions, 1665-1677
• Repeated reinventions, 1677-1696
• Stabilising the Transactions, 1696-1752
• The Transactions and the wider world, c.1700-1750
• For the use and benefit of the Society, 1750-1770
• Sociability and gatekeeping, 1770-1800
• Circulating knowledge, c.1780-1820
• Reforms, referees and the Proceedings, 1820-1850
• Editing the Journals, 1850s-1870s
• Scientific publishing as patronage, c.1860-1890
• The rise of the Proceedings, 1890-1920s
• Keeping the publications afloat, 1895-1930
• Why do we publish? 1932-1950
• Selling the journals in the 1950s and 1960s
• Survival in a shrinking, competitive market, c.1970-1990
• Money and mission in the digital age, 1990-2015
• Reflections : learning from 350 years

A radical retelling of the history of science that challenges the Eurocentric narrative. We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. Science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavour. Copernicus relied on mathematical techniques borrowed from Arabic and Persian texts. When Newton set out the laws of motion, he relied on astronomical observations made in Asia and Africa. When Darwin was writing On the Origin of Species, he consulted a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopaedia. And when Einstein was studying quantum mechanics, he was inspired by the Bengali physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose. Horizons pushes beyond Europe, exploring the ways in which scientists from Africa, America, Asia and the Pacific fit into the history of science, and arguing that it is best understood as a story of global cultural exchange. Challenging both the existing narrative and our perceptions of revered individuals, above all this is a celebration of the work of scientists neglected by history. Among many others, we meet Graman Kwasi, the seventeenth-century African botanist who discovered a new cure for malaria, Hantaro Nagaoka, the nineteenth-century Japanese scientist who first described the structure of the atom, and Zhao Zhongyao, the twentieth-century Chinese physicist who discovered antimatter (but whose American colleague received the Nobel prize). Scientists today are quick to recognise the international nature of their work. In this ambitious and revisionist history, James Poskett reveals that this tradition goes back much further than we think.
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"An argument that science is indeed 'socially constructed' but in a way that exposes it to a Darwinian version of variability and selection which ensures its success"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Why do we need this book?
• Understanding energy : fuels and electricity
• Understanding food production : eating fossil fuels
• Understanding our material world : the four pillars of modern civilization
• Understanding globalization : engines, microchips, and beyond
• Understanding risks : from viruses to diets to solar flares
• Understanding the environment : the only biosphere we have
• Understanding the future : between apocalypse and singularity
• Appendix: Understanding numbers: orders of magnitude

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors... [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world's toughest challenges."-Bill Gates "Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil-accept or doubt his 'just the facts' posture-but you probably shouldn't ignore him."-The Washington Post An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible-a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check-because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts. In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable-the foolishness of allowing 70 per cent of the world's rubber gloves to be made in just one factory became glaringly obvious in 2020-and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, such that any promises of decarbonization by 2050 are a fairy tale. For example, each greenhouse-grown supermarket-bought tomato has the equivalent of five tablespoons of diesel embedded in its production, and we have no way of producing steel, cement or plastics at required scales without huge carbon emissions. Ultimately, Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead? Compelling, data-rich and revisionist, this wonderfully broad, interdisciplinary guide finds faults with both extremes. Looking at the world through this quantitative lens reveals hidden truths that change the way we see our past, present and uncertain future.
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• Introduction: Why do we need this book?
• Understanding energy : fuels and electricity
• Understanding food production : eating fossil fuels
• Understanding our material world : the four pillars of modern civilization
• Understanding globalization : engines, microchips, and beyond
• Understanding risks : from viruses to diets to solar flares
• Understanding the environment : the only biosphere we have
• Understanding the future : between apocalypse and singularity

"An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible--a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check--because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts. In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable--the foolishness of allowing 70 per cent of the world's rubber gloves to be made in just one factory became glaringly obvious in 2020--and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, such that any promises of decarbonization by 2050 are a fairy tale. For example, each greenhouse-grown supermarket-bought tomato has the equivalent of five tablespoons of diesel embedded in its production, and we have no way of producing steel, cement or plastics at required scales without huge carbon emissions. Ultimately, Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead? Compelling, data-rich and revisionist, this wonderfully broad, interdisciplinary guide finds faults with both extremes. Looking at the world through this quantitative lens reveals hidden truths that change the way we see our past, present and uncertain future"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: Why do we need this book?
• Understanding energy : fuels and electricity
• Understanding food production : eating fossil fuels
• Understanding our material world : the four pillars of modern civilization
• Understanding globalization : engines, microchips, and beyond
• Understanding risks : from viruses to diets to solar flares
• Understanding the environment : the only biosphere we have
• Understanding the future : between apocalypse and singularity

"An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible--a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check--because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts. In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable--the foolishness of allowing 70 per cent of the world's rubber gloves to be made in just one factory became glaringly obvious in 2020--and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, such that any promises of decarbonization by 2050 are a fairy tale. For example, each greenhouse-grown supermarket-bought tomato has the equivalent of five tablespoons of diesel embedded in its production, and we have no way of producing steel, cement or plastics at required scales without huge carbon emissions. Ultimately, Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead? Compelling, data-rich and revisionist, this wonderfully broad, interdisciplinary guide finds faults with both extremes. Looking at the world through this quantitative lens reveals hidden truths that change the way we see our past, present and uncertain future"-- Provided by publisher

• The fleeting visit of the Enlightenment
• Perspective
• A new era and the catastrophic convergence
• A new physical and social setting
• About science
• Three metaphysical revolutions
• Beliefs and knowledge
• The growing ecological footprint
• Ozone and CO2
• Escape
• Blowback and nuclear weapons
• Post-truth, conspiracies, and denialism
• The tragedy of our time
• Ethics and economics
• What to do?
• Two gates

This book tries to look at human thought and action from a scientific perspective, and in the process, acquaints the reader with essential concepts about science and its history. It takes a broad look at our present troubles without overlooking some crucial historical, religious, and political causes but places science at the center stage.The author applies what he has learned throughout his career to go beyond science. After an introduction setting the scene and a review of the 'scientific temper' and the inexcusable ignorance of science by some leaders and many followers, the author turns his sharp vision to look at other issues. The most significant challenges are critical and global: climate change caused by our activities, stockpiles of nuclear weapons that are a constant threat, population growth, and increasing inequality at all levels. These problems do have a profound ethical character and threaten to end forever with our misery, producing a 'catastrophic convergence'.Written with rigor for all readers, with many references and infused with relevant quotations, the author's message is clear: we need to change our ways drastically and urgently, now or never. But he offers not much in terms of a solution, something done by many authors to sweeten the pill, because as he argues, beyond lofty declarations, there is no real solution as the clock runs down, leading to his dystopian view of the future.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. What is knowledge anyway? Obtaining clarity on knowledge and its role in society
• 3. An anti-intellectual approach to knowledge and learning
• 4. Design as a problem for school that reveals the problem of school
• 5. The uses and abuses of science and technology
• 6. The interaction of human and non-human agency
• 7. Rethinking education for social change.
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- Offers a curriculum perspective on making - Connects contemporary issues of innovation and makerspaces to the needs of students - Helps demystify the role of innovation in education - Written for those wishing to carry out effective making in the classroom and beyond.
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• Misperceiving merit, excellence, and devotion in academic STEM
• The cultural construction of merit in academic STEM
• The work devotion schema and its consequences
• Mismeasuring merit : the schema of scientific excellence as a yardstick of merit
• Defending the schema of scientific excellence, defending inequality
• The moralization of merit : consequences for scientists and science

• Modern bilimlerin Osmanlı Türkiyesi'ne girişi
• Mühendislik eğitimi ve klasikten moderne geçis
• Türkçenin bilim dili olması mücadelesi
• İlmî ve mesleki sahalarda cemiyetleşme gayretleri
• Osmanlılar ve modern teknoloji
• Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyet'e bilim politikaları

• Introduction: What's in this Book?
• 1. Theory + Experiment do not a Science Make
• 2. Dethroning the Queen
• 3. A Nature more Negotiable.
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What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically reducible to physics; and that science and the natural world which it pictures are deterministic. The author's innovative and thoughtful book draws on examples from the physical, life, and social sciences alike, and focuses on all the products of science - not just experiments or theories - and how they work together. She reveals just what it is that makes science ultimately reliable, and how this reliability is nevertheless still compatible with a view of nature as more responsive to human change than we might think. Her book is a call for greater intellectual humility by and within scientific institutions. It will have strong appeal to anyone who thinks about science and how it is practised in society.
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• 1: Before We Begin
• 2: The Case for Technological Imperfections
• 3: Cookery and Technological Spices
• 4: A Short Log of Technology from Wood
• 5: Reader Beware
• 6: Key Features of Chemistry and Solids
• 7: Examples of New Glass Technologies
• 8: Optical Fibre Communication
• 9: Beauty from Imperfections
• 10: Valuable Imperfections in Crystal Lattices
• 11: Impurities and the Growth of Semiconductors
• 12: Small Anomalies and Long-range Consequences
• 13: Photonics in the 21st Century
• 14: Chemistry and Catalysis
• 15: Imperfections in Music
• 16: Evolution Achieved through Imperfections
• 17: Hints for a Successful Scientific Career
• 18: Science in the Realm of Opinion
• 19: Improving our Future Lives
• 20: The Greatest Challenges that We Face.
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It may be surprising to focus on and praise imperfection, but, in reality, perfection is a fiction. Every aspect of our technologies is based on understanding and exploiting imperfections in the materials we use. Imperfections are key to our use of metals, glass, electronics, computers, optical fibres, and building materials. Catalysis, as used throughout chemical industries, is dependent on imperfections, as are a wide range of modern advances in biology and medicine. This book provides examples in each area that are readily understandable to non-scientists but also aim to offer a far deeper insight into how the technologies and disciplines advance and operate. However, once we change our focus from idealised perfection to reality, the implications can extend far beyond the realm of the sciences. The second part of the book examines the importance of our ability to recognise and adapt to imperfections in such wide-ranging areas as cookery, successful career development, love, life, and the survival of humanity. Using a broad range of accessible examples, this book aims to give readers the tools to recognize technological imperfections and apply those lessons to improving several key aspects of our lives, crucially enabling them to define a world that will survive current excesses and environmental destruction.
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• Introduction
• 1. Active Knowledge
• 2. Correspondence
• 3. Reality
• 4. Truth
• 5. Realism
• Closing Remarks.
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In this innovative book, Hasok Chang constructs a philosophy of science for 'realistic people' interested in understanding and promoting the actual practices of inquiry in science and other knowledge-focused areas of life. Inspired by pragmatist philosophy, he reconceives the very notions of reality and truth on the basis of his concept of the 'operational coherence' of epistemic activities, and offers new pragmatist conceptions of truth and reality as operational ideals achievable in actual scientific practice. Rejecting the version of scientific realism that is concerned with claiming that our theories correspond to an ultimate reality, he proposes instead an 'activist realism': a commitment to do all that we can actually do to improve our knowledge of realities. His book will appeal to scholars and students in philosophy, science and the history of science, and all who are concerned about the place of science and empirical truth in society.
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• 1. IntroductionPart I: Kinship, Magic, and the Unthinkable
• 2. "Trees Don't Sing!... Eagle Feather Has No Power!" Be Wary of the Potential Numbing Effects of School Scienc
• e3. Tracing a Black Hole: Probing Cosmic Darkness in Anthropocenic Time
• s4. The Waring Worlds of H.G. Wells: The Entangled Histories of Education, Sociobiology, Post-Genomics, and Science Fictio
• n5. Creating Magical Research: Writing for a Felt Reality in a More-Than-Human Worl
• d6. Fire as Unruly Kin: Curriculum Silences and Human ResponsesPart II: Decolonizing Anthropocene(s
• )7. Redrawing Relationalities at the Anthropocene(s): Disrupting and Dismantling the Colonial Logics of Shared Identity through Thinking with Kim Tallbea
• r8. Decolonizing Healing through Indigenous Ways of Knowin
• g9. Still Joy: A Call for Wonder(ing) in Science Education as Anti-Racist Vibrant Life-Livin
• g10. The Salt of the Earth (Inspired by Cherokee Creation Story)Part III: Politics and Political Reverberation
• s11. The Science of Data, Data Science: Perversions and Possibilities in the Anthropocene through a Spatial Justice Len
• s12. Science and Environment Education in the Times of the Anthropocene: Some Reflections from Indi
• a13. Rethinking Historical Approaches for Science Education in the Anthropocen
• e14. Reflections on Teaching and Learning Chemistry through Youth Participatory SciencePart IV: Science Education for a World-Yet-To-Com
• e15. Learning from Flint: How Matter Imposes Itself in the Anthropocene and What That Means for Educatio
• n16. Resurrecting Science Education by Re-Inserting Women, Nature, and Complexit
• y17. Watchmen, Scientific Imaginaries, and the Capitalocene: The Media and Their Messages for Science Educator
• s18. Curricular Experiments for Peace in Colombia: Re-imagining Science Education in Post-Conflict SocietiesPart V: Complicated Conversation
• s19. A Feral Atlas for the Anthropocene: An Interview with Anna L. Tsin
• g20. In Conversation with Fikile Nxumalo: Refiguring Onto-Epistemic Attunements for Im/possible Science Pedagogie
• s21. In Conversation with Vicki Kirby: Deconstruction, Critique, and Human Exceptionalism in the Anthropocen
• e22. Conversations on Citizenship, Critical Hope, and Climate Change: An Interview with Bronwyn Haywar
• d23. Conclusion - Another Complicated Conversation.
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This open access edited volume invites transdisciplinary scholars to re-vision science education in the era of the Anthropocene. The collection assembles the works of educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together to help reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with the geologic times many call the Anthropocene. It has become evident that science education-the way it is currently institutionalized in various forms of school science, government policy, classroom practice, educational research, and public/private research laboratories-is ill-equipped and ill-conceived to deal with the expansive and urgent contexts of the Anthropocene. Paying homage to myopic knowledge systems, rigid state education directives, and academic-professional communities intent on reproducing the same practices, knowledges, and relationships that have endangered our shared world and shared presents/presence is misdirected. This volume brings together diverse scholars to reimagine the field in times of precarity.
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