scholarly journals Coming to Terms with Technoscience: The Heideggerian Way

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-206
Author(s):  
Hub Zwart
Keyword(s):  
Research Laboratory ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
University Campus

AbstractImagine a group of philosophy students, about to complete a Master’s program in continental philosophy, who are invited to visit a life sciences research laboratory, somewhere on a university campus. Having studied some of Heidegger’s quintessential works, such as Being and Time and The Question of Technology, they suddenly find themselves exposed to racks of test-tubes and automated sequencing machines. Suppose that, thrown into such an “unworldly” lab environment, they ask themselves how to interpret their experiences in a Heideggerian manner.

Post-occupancy evaluation of research and academic laboratory facilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 797-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad A. Hassanain ◽  
Muizz O. Sanni-Anibire ◽  
Abubakar Sadiq Mahmoud ◽  
Wahhaj Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Research Laboratory ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Satisfaction Index ◽  
Post Occupancy Evaluation ◽  
Performance Requirements ◽  
Laboratory Facilities ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Technical Features ◽  
Academic Laboratory

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the post-occupancy evaluation (POE) of academic and research laboratory facilities. This is based on the premise that the performance of such facilities is directly connected to the productivity, health and wellbeing of its users. Design/methodology/approach The paper was carried out in two phases, first, the performance requirements for academic and laboratory facilities were identified through the extant literature. Furthermore, a questionnaire survey was developed to carry out a POE of existing academic and research laboratory facilities in a university campus in Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire was designed using a Likert scale of one to five. Finally, the satisfaction index was computed, and rates of satisfaction with the various performance requirements were determined. Findings The paper resulted into 74 performance requirements grouped into three categories. The respondents showed general satisfaction with most of the performance requirements. However, dissatisfaction was observed in performance requirements related to technical features and the availability of sustainability features. Such findings suggest the growing importance of such technical and sustainable features in modern-day laboratories. Originality/value Though few studies have employed POE in assessing the performance of academic facilities, there is still a gap regarding its application to the laboratory facilities. Thus, the originality of this study is evident in its presentation of a set of performance requirements and its further application as a case study.

Corrigenda to the Macquarrie-Robinson Translation of Heidegger’s Being and Time

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-244
Author(s):  
Richard Rojcewicz
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
German Original ◽  
German Edition ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
John Macquarrie ◽  
8Th Edition

This is a list of corrigenda to the English translation of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time (German original: Sein und Zeit, 1927, 8th edition 1957) by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (1962). The list includes 186 entries: most are corrections of outright mistakes in expressing the sense of Heidegger’s text, and twenty-two entries are marked as representing Heidegger’s own revisions to the work as found in the latest German edition (2006). Explanatory comments accompany many of the entries. The corrigenda are offered as a service to scholars of Heidegger’s magnum opus who work within the discipline of philosophy and also to humanistic psychologists who follow the tradition of continental philosophy in their work as practioners and researchers.

scholarly journals Reconceptualizing the Classroom: An Immersive Digital Primary Source Exercise During COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-340
Author(s):  
Melinda McPeek ◽  
Jennifer Piegols ◽  
Ian Post
Keyword(s):  
Online Instruction ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Research Center ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Center Staff ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The University

The Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture is part of the Libraries at Salisbury University and serves as a campus humanities research laboratory. With the closure of the University campus in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, staff and faculty quickly transitioned to online instruction. In response, Nabb Center staff initiated several activities including virtual classroom projects, online exhibits, and the creation of a COVID-19 collection. These activities unexpectedly presented our organization with new opportunities to expand our engagement within the University and broader community and will have a lasting impact on our instruction and outreach beyond the pandemic.  

Towards consilience Thirty years of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (01) ◽  
pp. 107-113
Author(s):  
Nichole M. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Evolutionary Genetic

Scholars, scientists, and policymakers converged last fall at the annual meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) held on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington from October 14–16, 2010. Founded in 1980, the association uniquely merges evolutionary, genetic, and ecological knowledge with the study of political behavior, public policy, and ethics. This year's annual meeting celebrated the diversity of scholarship embodied by the association with the theme, “Toward Consilience: Thirty Years of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences.”

My Road to History of Science

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 639-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
University Education ◽  
Initial Attempt ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
Student Reading ◽  
History Of ◽  
Prague School

Had anybody told me at the beginning of my university studies that I would end up as a historian of science, I would not only have shaken my head in disbelief, I would in all probability not even have understood the prophecy. When I left high school, my interests ranged from literary writing to the life sciences. After an initial attempt to study biochemistry, which I aborted after a year, my early university education was in philosophy, with an emphasis on continental philosophy, from Descartes to Spinoza, from Kant to Hegel, from Nietzsche to Heidegger, pretty much the curriculum that would dominate the vast majority of the philosophical institutes in German universities in the mid-1960s. Having moved from Tübingen to Berlin, in addition I absorbed early on, as part of a group of students around Jacob Taubes, what came to be subsumed under the label of structuralism and post-structuralism: linguistics and semiotics from the Prague School through Noam Chomsky to Julien Greimas, grammatology from Ignace Gelb to Jacques Derrida, historical epistemology in its latest, Canguilhemian and Foucauldian versions, literary theory as practiced by Roland Barthes, to mention just a few names that formed the horizon of our student reading circles.

Developing entrepreneurial competences in students in the life sciences: the Lifetech Ad-Venture program

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Alcaraz-Rodriguez ◽  
Mario M. Alvarez ◽  
Marcia Villasana
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Private University ◽  
Future Research ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Content Type ◽  
American University ◽  
Entrepreneurial Characteristics ◽  
Before And After

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify how an entrepreneurship program in the life-sciences impacts the development of their entrepreneurial skills and values in undergraduate students. Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative study was conducted at Tecnologico de Monterrey, a private university in Mexico. Questionnaires were administered to life-sciences students before and after the entrepreneurship course to analyze and identify the development of pre-defined entrepreneurial characteristics. Findings – Results indicate a positive and significant impact on several of the 13 entrepreneurial characteristics evaluated in the study (negotiation skills, need of achievement and initiative). Empirical insights gained in the study suggest that gender does not yield to differences in the degree of involvement in activities, and that previous entrepreneurship experience may contribute to enhanced engagement in the program. Research limitations/implications – The paper reports on students from one university campus. Future research should include students from other locations in the country. Practical implications – It is evident that university entrepreneurship programs have an impact on students' skills and values; however, the challenge still remains in the design of those programs to include more activities and draw on the students' own competences. Originality/value – This paper contributes with evidence from an entrepreneurship program implemented in a Latin American university, a region for which documentation of the degree of success of entrepreneurship education is limited in the literature.

Towards consilience Thirty years of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-113
Author(s):  
Nichole M. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Evolutionary Genetic

Scholars, scientists, and policymakers converged last fall at the annual meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) held on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington from October 14–16, 2010. Founded in 1980, the association uniquely merges evolutionary, genetic, and ecological knowledge with the study of political behavior, public policy, and ethics. This year's annual meeting celebrated the diversity of scholarship embodied by the association with the theme, “Toward Consilience: Thirty Years of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences.”

Hermeneutics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Inwood
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Hermeneutic Circle ◽  
Wilhelm Dilthey ◽  
The Bible

Hermeneutics, the ‘art of interpretation’, was originally the theory and method of interpreting the Bible and other difficult texts. Wilhelm Dilthey extended it to the interpretation of all human acts and products, including history and the interpretation of a human life. Heidegger, in Being and Time (1927), gave an ‘interpretation’ of the human being, the being that itself understands and interprets. Under his influence, hermeneutics became a central theme of continental philosophy. Hermeneutics generates several controversies. In interpreting something do we unearth the author’s thoughts and intentions, imagining ourselves in his position? Or do we relate it to a wider whole that gives it meaning? The latter view gives rise to the hermeneutic circle: we cannot understand a whole (for example, a text) unless we understand its parts, or the parts unless we understand the whole. Heidegger discovered another circle: as we inevitably bring presuppositions to what we interpret, does this mean that any interpretation is arbitrary, or at least endlessly revisable?

scholarly journals Teaching Context and Students’ Learning: A Case Study of a Public Sector University

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (IV) ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
Muhammad Naeem Butt ◽  
Haji Karim Khan ◽  
Wilayat Bibi
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
Teaching Context ◽  
Education Data

This is an exploratory research study that aimed at capturing students’ learning experience in a public sector university campus in a remote region in Pakistan. The sample included students in the last semester of their two years Master’s program in Education Data were generated through a questionnaire survey, in-depth interviews, and whole-class discussions with Master’s students of Education. Findings showed that the students saw their learning embedded inrelation to the interaction with the faculty members, availability of resources, and interactive teaching approaches. It surfaced that remoteness of the context and unavailability of the Internet, lack of relative skills, and English language deficiencies, were key challenges.

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