The Psychic Force Serialized

Aries ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Ian Hesketh
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Quarterly Journal ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article considers the way chemist William Crookes utilized the editorship of the Quarterly Journal of Science to promote the scientific importance of spirit phenomena. It explores the publishing of Crookes’s series of sensational articles that investigated the ‘Psychic Force’, a purported force of nature that Crookes discovered during experiments with the medium Daniel Dunglas Home. Crookes thus used the platform afforded to him in the journal to describe his experiments and present his evidence within the framework of an orthodox scientific discourse. While Crookes endured much criticism from certain scientific men, the serial format of his investigation meant that he was able to generate a great deal of interest. It also meant that his subsequent articles in the series could respond to critics by adjusting his experiments, overcoming perceived difficulties, and providing his readers with new and exciting details concerning his ongoing investigation as it was being conducted.

Jokes of Nature and Jokes of Knowledge: The Playfulness of Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Europe*

1990 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Findlen
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Scientific Texts ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
The Way

During The Sixteenth And Seventeenth centuries natural history, and to a certain extent science in general, rediscovered its capacity for playfulness in the form of the scientific joke. By scientific joke, I mean thelusus naturae, or joke of nature, and the lusus scientiae, or joke of knowledge, that populated the museums and scientific texts of the period. The relation between the natural paradox of lusus and the scientific demonstrations and experiments that were also lusus points to the way in which the dynamic between art and nature and between collector and audience unfolded in the spectacle of science.

scholarly journals Queering Methodologies: Challenging Scientific Constraint in the Appreciation of Queer and Trans Subjects

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Ethics Research ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies ◽  
The Way

Qualitative studies require a queer perspective to challenge stagnant forms of scientific discourse. This paper argues for a deconstruction of hegemonic qualitative practices in order to appreciate and listen to queer and trans subjects when employing qualitative research and methodologies. I focus on qualitative methods from an audiovisual perspective to suggest that there is scientific constraint in the way researchers still approach qualitative methodologies. I propose some foundations for thinking about queer qualitative methods that employs queer theory in relation to a self - reflexive creative perspective towards ethics, research and representation. Moreover, I critically analyze the HBO trans documentary, Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She (Antony Thomas 2005), in order to move beyond complacent documentaries that employ interviews as a way of categorizing and containing gender diversity. I work towards future methodological promises for the exploration of queer and trans subjects. Further, this paper challenges the problems of imposing binary - based categories that not only obscure thorough understandings of gender but also perpetuate social injustice.

VI.—River Development

1902 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 366-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. S. Buckman
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
River System ◽  
Quarterly Journal ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Work Done ◽  
The Way

In the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, May, 1902, vol. lviii, p. 207, Mr. A. Strahan has a paper on the “Origin of the River-System of South Wales, and its Connection with that of the Severn and Thames.” It is with the part of the paper expressed in the latter portion of the title that I am more particularly concerned; for in that connection Mr. Strahan remarks in a footnote (p. 219), “The theories put forward by Mr. S. S. Buckman in Proc. Cotteswold Nat. Field Club, vol. xiii (1900), p. 175, following the lead of Professor W. M. Davis, appear to me to transgress the limits of legitimate speculation.” It seems rather curious that in a paper like this there is no further reference to the work done by Professor Davis, no attempt to consider his views, only a dismissal of them, implied in the rejection of the views which I have advanced in accordance with his teaching, which views, by the way, I gave in more detail in Natural Science, April, 1899, vol. xiv.

scholarly journals I. On the Laurentian Rocks of Britain, Bavaria, and Bohemia

1865 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. 97-101
Author(s):  
Roderick I. Murchison
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Quarterly Journal ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
The Way

A large portion of the last number of the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (February Ist) is justly devoted to the important subject of the Laurentian or oldest known stratified rocks, the elaboration and naming of which in North America were, it is well known, accomplished by Sir William Logan and his associates. On this occasion a memoir by that eminent geologist naturally leads the way, whilst, in the subsequent articles, the nature and structure of the Eozoon Canadense, which has been found in these rocks, are ably developed by Drs. Dawson, Carpenter, and Sterry Hunt.

scholarly journals Deliberation as a tool to find solutions to overcome the crisis in the European Union

2017 ◽  
pp. 133-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Witkowska
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Target Model ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
The Way

A deliberative debate is a process of communication focused on finding good arguments for specific evaluations and solutions to the issues discussed, and addressing important stakeholder issues. The aim of the article is to present the course and results of observations made with regards to the theoretical and scientific discourse of deliberation that took place in September 2016. Participants were academic experts, thinkers and representatives of civil society organisations working in European affairs, as well as doctoral students and other activists. The questions concerned the way to understand the guiding motto of the meeting: More Europe and the way to define and to perceive the crisis in the process of European integration. Deliberation concerned the assessment of the model of European integration and the question whether the current formula is endorsed or contested. In addition, arguments on the best and worst effects of the integration process should be identified, who can challenge the integration process and for what reasons. The purpose of the deliberation was to assess the process of European integration, identify the ground for the criticism thereof, diagnose crisis situations and indicate the desired target model.

Sternenpolitik

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-85
Author(s):  
Christian Reidenbach
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Dual Role ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Political ◽  
Physical Description ◽  
French Academy ◽  
Collective Interaction ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Way

Abstract Fontenelle’s dual role as a representative of the Modernes as well as the perpetual secretary of the French Academy of Sciences explains his hesitation in making any public statements about politics. Nevertheless, this article identifies within his best-known Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds a liberal interpretation of the heavens that is supported by the metaphorical transfer between political semantics and the field of cosmology. The idea of this liberality flourishes in the gallant dialogue between two protagonists (the marquise and the philosopher), unfolds within the context of an opening, expert scientific discourse, and is reflected through the physical description of a commerce among celestial vortices. Thus, different aspects of the political within the Conversations are examined - starting from the self-understanding of the individual all the way up to the idea of an egalitarian universe that is characterised by collective interaction.

We the Semites: Reading Ancient History in Mandate Palestine

2020 ◽  
pp. 151-167
Author(s):  
Yoni Furas
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
The West ◽  
Jewish Historiography ◽  
The Way

Chapter 5 deals with the representation of antiquity in textbooks, and it shows the resemblances between Arabic and Hebrew textbooks as to their use of the concepts of race and the disparities between them regarding territoriality and identity. Throughout the nineteenth century, new archaeological discoveries uncovered ancient Semitic civilizations, and identified their universal heritage and contribution to humankind. The chapter traces the employment of and engagement with the term ‘Semite’, which was a determinist racial label coined in a scholarly environment where the historicist tradition of the West had merged with biological research about the origin of the species. Further, the chapter explores the racial scientific discourse since the nineteenth century, until the Mandate period in Arab and Jewish historiography. Finally, the chapter illustrates the way in which the Zionist–Palestinian conflict wrote itself into ancient history.

scholarly journals Milcząca wojna na dwa głosy w wybranym dyskursie naukowym. Konceptualne i pojęciowe światy równoległe

2018 ◽  
pp. 333-350
Author(s):  
Ewelina Woźniak-Wrzesińska
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Quantitative Survey ◽  
Cognitive Metaphor ◽  
The Way

The analysis focuses on the Polish scientific discourse of the George Lako ’s and Mark Johnson‘s theory. The author wonders whether two Polish terms “cognitive metaphor” and “conceptual meta- phor” can be guided by the same principles in the examined discourse. At the outset of the text, a quantitative survey took place, followed by qualitative ones: the first aimed to identify the key words and examine in which contexts they occur, the second attempted to verify whether both described terms are similarly conceptualized or not. It appears that additional review of the methods of pro ling the analyzed terms de nitely confirms the identified correlation. Namely: the way of naming one phenomenon depends on the text and the context (Polish and original) of the discourse, which the researchers refer to.

Self-sacrifice for in-group's history: A diachronic perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Babińska ◽  
Michal Bilewicz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Emotional Events ◽  
Reciprocal Process ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe problem of extended fusion and identification can be approached from a diachronic perspective. Based on our own research, as well as findings from the fields of social, political, and clinical psychology, we argue that the way contemporary emotional events shape local fusion is similar to the way in which historical experiences shape extended fusion. We propose a reciprocal process in which historical events shape contemporary identities, whereas contemporary identities shape interpretations of past traumas.

What is the purpose of cognition?

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aba Szollosi ◽  
Ben R. Newell
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Number ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
The Way

Abstract The purpose of human cognition depends on the problem people try to solve. Defining the purpose is difficult, because people seem capable of representing problems in an infinite number of ways. The way in which the function of cognition develops needs to be central to our theories.

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