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Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science
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The article was published on 1994-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 718 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Science wars & Intellectual freedom.read more
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Thomas Kuhn: Kuhn, Conceptual Change, and Cognitive Science
TL;DR: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions seems intrinsically historical, philosophical, and psychological (Kuhn 1970) as discussed by the authors, however, by and large, Kuhn never utilized research in the cognitive sciences that would have furthered his own paradigm in ways I think he would have found agreeable.
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Thinking about knowing: conceptual foundations for interdisciplinary environmental research
Sanjeev Khagram,Kimberly A. Nicholas,Dena Macmynowski Bever,Justin Warren,Elizabeth H. Richards,Elizabeth H. Richards,Kirsten L.L. Oleson,Justin Kitzes,Rebecca Katz,Rebeca Hwang,Rebecca L. Goldman,Rebecca L. Goldman,Jason Funk,Jason Funk,Kate A. Brauman +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework is proposed to facilitate interdisciplinary research, with the goals of promoting communication, understanding and collaborative work, and three core elements need to be addressed to improve inter-disciplinary research: the types (forms and functions) of theories, the underlying philosophies of knowledge and the combination of research styles.
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Consensos sobre la naturaleza de la ciencia: evidencias e implicaciones para su enseñanza
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of the curriculos for the ensenanza de la ciencia escolar in Espana is presented, based on a metodologia empirica.
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Programming with agents: new metaphors for thinking about computation
Michael Travers,Marvin Minsky +1 more
TL;DR: This dissertation introduces the idea of programming with “agents” as a means to help people create worlds involving responsive, interacting objects and develops a visual programming environment called LiveWorld that supports the creation of agent-based models, along with a series of agent languages that operate in this world.