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Beyond the Text
Author | : Lawrence A. Hoffman |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1989-08-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780253113870 |
This unique and groundbreaking study moves "beyond the texts" of prayers to carefully study the worshipping community from an anthropological perspective. Hoffman's innovative approach opens up the world of prayer to the academy and the community at large. With the publication of this book, the study of liturgy will never again be the same.
Beyond Reductionism, New Perspectives in the Life Sciences
Author | : Arthur Koestler |
Publisher | : Hutchinson Radius |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780091124113 |
Beyond Reductionism
Author | : Katharine Farrell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136281703 |
This is a book about the work of scientists in the era of the Anthropocene: where human beings appear to have become a driving force in the evolution of the planet. It is a diverse collection of empirical, methodological and theoretical chapters concerned with the practice of interdisciplinary social-ecological systems research. The aim of the contributors is to give the reader an appreciation for the range and complexity of the challenges faced by researchers, research institutions and wider communities trying to make sense of the causes and consequences of the this new era of global environmental change. The tragedy of the Anthropocene, of the large scale anthropogenic habitat destruction and planet-wide impacts of anthropogenic climate change, is not that science has failed humanity but rather that it has served humanity all too well, making possible in just a few hundred years volumes and scales of human activity far exceeding anything ever seen before. Coming to terms with that success was the aim of the 1969 Alpbach Symposium, from which this book draws its name, where contributors including Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Bertalanffy, asked themselves: what theory, practices and standards are required to move beyond reductionism? Like those from 1969, the answers presented in this collection are hugely diverse, ranging from PhD students concerned with research methods and institutional obstacles, to mid-career scholars presenting their innovative ‘beyond-reductionism’ research methods, to emeritus professors looking back over what has been achieved in the past 30 years and suggesting where things might go from here. All the contributors begin from the premise that the challenges of the Anthropocene can only be successfully met if interdisciplinary research effectively brings together social and natural sciences, the humanities, stakeholders and decision makers. They conclude, in unison, that both the institutional and the methodological foundations needed to do this work are still sorely lacking. While this may seem a dismal position, the book is full of success stories, such as: the integrative approach of MuSIASEM (Multi-Scale Integrative Assessment of Social-Ecological Metabolism) developed by Mario Giampietro’s group in Barcelona, Spain; the alternative perspectives of what Ariel Salleh calls the ‘meta-industrial’ discourse in Ecofeminism; or the innovative trans-departmental status of the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden. Putting both the theoretical and methodological challenges of moving beyond reductionism on the table for discussion, this text aims to help a growing community of passionate thinkers and actors better understand themselves and their work.
Beyond Reductionism: New Perspectives in the Life Sciences
Author | : Arthur Koestler |
Publisher | : Hutchinson Radius |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Current Catalog
Author | : National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1040 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : |
Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author | : National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : |
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Hermeneutics and Science
Author | : Márta Fehér |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2013-04-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9401592934 |
Hermeneutics was elaborated as a specific art of understanding in humanities. The discovered paradigmatic, historical characteristics of scientific knowledge, and the role of rhetoric, interpretation and contextuality enabled us to use similar arguments in natural sciences too. In this way a new research field, the hermeneutics of science emerged based upon the works of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger and Gadamer. A dialogue between philosophers and scientists begins in this volume on hermeneutic approaches to physics, biology, ethology, mathematics and cognitive science. Scientific principles, methodologies, discourse, language, and metaphors are analyzed, as well as the role of the lay public and the legitimation of science. Different hermeneutical-phenomenological approaches to perception, experiments, methods, discovery and justification and the genesis of science are presented. Hermeneutics shed a new light on the incommensurability of paradigms, the possibility of translation and the historical understanding of science.
Perspectives in Ethology
Author | : P. Bateson |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2013-03-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1475702329 |
When we began this series we wanted to encourage imaginative thinking among ethologists and those working in related fields. By the time we had reached Volume 3, we were advised by our publishers to give each volume a theme. Although we accepted the advice, it ran somewhat counter to our own wish to give our authors full rein. It also meant that we could not accept submitted manuscripts if they lay too far outside the topic for the next volume. We did, however, cheat a little, and faithful followers of the series will have noticed that some of the contributions were not exactly on the stated theme. Anyway, our publishers have now agreed that we can make honest people of ourselves by once again ac cepting a broad range of manuscripts for any volume. We shall also solicit manuscripts on particular topics that seem to be timely and appropriate, and each volume will continue to have a subtitle that relates to the theme of the majority of the papers in the volume. We hope that with our more permissive policy now explicit, potential contributors will feel encouraged to submit manuscripts to either of us at the addresses given at the end of this Preface. When planning the present volume, we wanted our contributors to build bridges between studies of behavior and the neurosciences. In recent years, the majority of people working on behavior seem to have been exclusively concerned with functional and evolutionary approaches.
Earthcare
Author | : Carolyn Merchant |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1136653228 |
Written by one of the leading thinkers in environmentalism, Earthcare brings together Merchant's existing work on the topic of women and the environment as well as updated and new essays. Earthcare looks at age-old historical associations of women with nature, beginning with Eve and continuing through to environmental activists of today, women's commitment to environmental conservation, and the problematic assumptions of women as caregivers and men as dominating nature.