Technology and the Limits of Scientific Theorizing

2020 ◽  
pp. 291-335
Author(s):  
Stephen Gaukroger
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Pure Science ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

There are two questions central to understanding the nature and role of technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. First, there is the problem of how technology engages with science. To the extent to which science and technology can be integrated, what might once have been thought of as scientific developments should in fact be conceived in terms of a mixture of theory, experiment, and theory-free invention. This unstable mixture is what confers on ‘science’ its unruly character. Second, there is a great difference in the values of science and engineering and their approaches to problem solving, evident in physical and engineering approaches to aerodynamics in the early decades of the twentieth century. The association of science and engineering means that we must take seriously the non-discursive products of science, particularly machines, and then we encounter questions very different from those that concern us in the study of ‘pure’ science.

The Medicalization of Dying: A Positive Turn on a New Path

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Connelly
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Western Medicine ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Care Of The Dying ◽  
Medical Values

The science and technology of Western medicine in the twentieth century have expanded physician power to control the quality and timing of dying. Medicalization of dying is the result: a view of death and dying circumscribed by medical values, rules, accepted practices, and the controlling role of the physician. The new path represents a more holistic orientation in medical care of the dying.

scholarly journals Abstraction, the Big Idea, and it’s Significance in Science and Technology Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-54
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Technology Education ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Science And Technology Education ◽  
Computer Science Curriculum ◽  
Motivation Level

This paper discusses the role of abstraction in science and technology education. It starts with a humble introduction of abstraction in general, while discussing the first few encounters of a learner with this idea. Significance of abstraction and the required motivation level of learner are also discussed. An expected change in the attitude of a learner at transition to higher studies is proposed. Thereafter the contribution of abstraction in the evolution of Computer Science and Engineering is discussed in some detail. Moreover a deduction of the Computer Science Curriculum is also shown along the same line as its evolution. Finally the paper concludes with emphasizing the importance of understanding links between different layers of abstractions.

scholarly journals MEMBENTUK KEPRIBADIAN SEHAT (Tawaran Model Psikoterapi Islam)

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Any Rufaidah
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Basic Problem ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Pure Consciousness ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Islamic Psychotherapy

The progress of modern science and technology has become human being easy to reach whatever they need and they want. Nevertheless, in other hand, those progresses with their ideology, life style, effect and etc. in fact have caused the human being faraway from their surroundings, family, and even their self. Therefore, modern men try to look for the solution of this condition, one of that is religion.However, the chosen to religion is not based on pure consciousness, but only as way to escape; hence the result is not permanent. The solutions offered by religious, such as Islamic psychotherapy, also have not touched the basic problem of humanity yet, that is the consciousness, and consequently the problem solving is not maximal.Islamic psychotherapy presented in this article, which is based on principles of epistemology of hikmah muta`aliyah, is hoped be able to be Islamic psychotherapy alternative that fix the lacking. The result is not only the temporal satisfaction of soul, but a peace of life which is permanent, and also intellectual satisfaction, without ignoring the role of syari'ah.<br /><br />Keywords: Problem of modern men, Islamic psychotherapy, and hikmah muta`aliyah.

scholarly journals Behind the Exhibit Displaying Science and Technology at World's Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Science Museums ◽  
Public Display ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
International Exhibitions

The latest in the Artefacts series, Behind the Exhibit examines scientific heritage and narratives behind public display of scientific artifacts in national and international exhibitions and science museums throughout the twentieth century. Developed from the Artefacts XX conference, convened 20–22 September 2015 at the Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, during Expo Milan 2015, this volume brings together museum curators and historians of science and technology to present case studies from the United States, Europe, Russia, and Japan. What emerged is a study of the tension between basic science and technological applications, the multilayered role of history, the appearance and disappearance of artifacts, and the search for a balance between entertainment and education.

What's Going On…

1977 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-200
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
State University ◽  
Arizona State University ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Home Computers

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS on the mathematics education curriculum of the future?—any feelings about the role of the pocket calculators, problem solving, computers, television, home computers, microprocessors, basic skills, survival mathematics, metrication, and so on, in mathematics education? If so, will you share your thoughts with Gary Bitter, College of Education, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281. He is currently on sabbatical leave to do an assessment of the mathematics curriculum of the latter part of the Twentieth Century.

cAbdullah Yūsuf cAlī & Muhammad Asad: Two Approaches to the English Translation of the Qur'an

2000 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muzaffar Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
British India ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
English Translations ◽  
Political Milieu ◽  
The Times

This article attempts to present a comparative study of the role of two twentieth-century English translations of the Qur'an: cAbdullah Yūsuf cAlī's The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'ān and Muḥammad Asad's The Message of the Qur'ān. No two men could have been more different in their background, social and political milieu and life experiences than Yūsuf cAlī and Asad. Yūsuf 'Alī was born and raised in British India and had a brilliant but traditional middle-class academic career. Asad traversed a vast cultural and geographical terrain: from a highly-disciplined childhood in Europe to the deserts of Arabia. Both men lived ‘intensely’ and with deep spiritual yearning. At some time in each of their lives they decided to embark upon the translation of the Qur'an. Their efforts have provided us with two incredibly rich monumental works, which both reflect their own unique approaches and the effects of the times and circumstances in which they lived. A comparative study of these two translations can provide rich insights into the exegesis and the phenomenon of human understanding of the divine text.

On Metaphysics and the Political: A Polemics of Reading Baudelaire in the 1930s

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Joseph Acquisto
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This essay examines a polemic between two Baudelaire critics of the 1930s, Jean Cassou and Benjamin Fondane, which centered on the relationship of poetry to progressive politics and metaphysics. I argue that a return to Baudelaire's poetry can yield insight into what seems like an impasse in Cassou and Fondane. Baudelaire provides the possibility of realigning metaphysics and politics so that poetry has the potential to become the space in which we can begin to think the two of them together, as opposed to seeing them in unresolvable tension. Or rather, the tension that Baudelaire animates between the two allows us a new way of thinking about the role of esthetics in moments of political crisis. We can in some ways see Baudelaire as responding, avant la lettre, to two of his early twentieth-century readers who correctly perceived his work as the space that breathes a new urgency into the questions of how modern poetry relates to the world from which it springs and in which it intervenes.

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