Science And Sensibility
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Author | : Michael Vincent McGinnis |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-03-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0520960750 |
If humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities. Cultivating a relationship to place often includes a negotiating process that involves both science and sensibility. While science is one key part of an adaptive and resilient society, the cultivation of a renewed sense of place and community is essential as well. Science and Sensibility argues for the need for ecology to engage with philosophical values and economic motivations in a political process of negotiation, with the goal of shaping humans' treatment of the natural world. Michael Vincent McGinnis aims to reframe ecology so it might have greater “trans-scientific” awareness of the roles and interactions among multiple stakeholders in socioecological systems, and he also maintains that deep ecological knowledge of specific places will be crucial to supporting a sustainable society. He uses numerous specific case studies from watershed, coastal, and marine habitats to illustrate how place-based ecological negotiation can occur, and how reframing our negotiation process can influence conservation, restoration, and environmental policy in effective ways.
Author | : Jessica Riskin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2010-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226720853 |
Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion. Riskin argues that sentimental empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics. She shows, for instance, how the study of blindness, led by ideas about the mental and moral role of vision and by cataract surgeries, shaped the first school for the blind; how Benjamin Franklin's electrical physics, ascribing desires to nature, engaged French economic reformers; and how the question of the role of language in science and social life linked disputes over Antoine Lavoisier's new chemical names to the founding of France's modern system of civic education. Recasting the Age of Reason by stressing its conjunction with the Age of Sensibility, Riskin offers an entirely new perspective on the development of modern science and the history of the Enlightenment.
Author | : Marina Benjamin |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780631192077 |
Author | : Keith J. Laidler |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2011-12-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1615927034 |
This volume reviews the major contributions of the different branches of science and shows how they all lead to a unified conception of humans' place in the universe.
Author | : James Roy Newman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 681 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Philosophers |
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Author | : James Roy Newman |
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Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Philosophers |
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Author | : Jane Austen |
Publisher | : Quirk Books |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1594744424 |
New York Times bestseller An uproarious tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem inspired by the classic Jane Austen novel—from the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen’s biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. It’s survival of the fittest—and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love!
Author | : Stephen Gaukroger |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2010-11-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199594937 |
How did we come to have a scientific culture -- one in which cognitive values are shaped around scientific ones? Stephen Gaukroger presents a rich and fascinating investigation of the development of intellectual culture in early modern Europe, a period in which understandings of the natural realm began to fragment.
Author | : Carl Sagan |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2006-11-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1101201835 |
“Ann Druyan has unearthed a treasure. It is a treasure of reason, compassion, and scientific awe. It should be the next book you read.” —Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith “A stunningly valuable legacy left to all of us by a great human being. I miss him so.” —Kurt Vonnegut Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spirituality The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design, and a new concept of science as "informed worship." Originally presented at the centennial celebration of the famous Gifford Lectures in Scotland in 1985 but never published, this book offers a unique encounter with one of the most remarkable minds of the twentieth century.
Author | : James R. Newman |
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