scholarly journals Questions toward a Peircean phenomenological description of association

Semiotica ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (207) ◽  
pp. 529-538
Author(s):  
Bent Sørensen ◽  
Torkild Thellefsen
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Phenomenological Description ◽  
Charles Peirce ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractAccording to the philosopher and scientist Charles Peirce (1839–1914) phenomenology is fundamental to all scientific inquiry and association is the only force that exists within the intellect. However, Peirce only gave his reader a hint about the relationship between phenomenology and association. In this article we will try to follow that hint and point towards a couple of main questions that can guide a Peircean phenomenological description of association. Hence, the conclusion of the article will not be a phenomenological description of association but rather a couple of main questions trying to determine how such a phenomenological description can begin in the first place. Our hypothesis is that the questions depend for their construction on the inter-relatedness and interdependence of certain central Peircean phenomenological concepts – especially, Thirdness, Secondness, and Firstness.

Signals from the Goal

Runaway ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Chaney
Keyword(s):  
Negative Feedback ◽  
Positive Feedback ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Physical Models ◽  
A Value ◽  
William Bateson ◽  
Theories Of Evolution ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter places Bateson's work with dolphins within a broader 1960s "dolphin mystique"--a cultural site where anxieties over modern science’s physical models went unresolved. Most associated with scientist John C. Lilly, the dolphin mystique had futurist, utilitarian, and romantic components, also found in a similar "outer space mystique." The chapter shows how Lilly's and Bateson's research goals differed through a further substantiation of the sources of Bateson's thought: the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics (his theory of play, the concepts of positive feedback, negative feedback, servomechanisms, and the naturalization of teleology); and his father William Bateson and his career amid the ongoing conflict between Darwinist and Lamarckian theories of evolution. In Hawaii, Bateson expressed his isolation from potential peers and research frustrations in letters to old friend and Darwin granddaughter/scholar Nora Barlow. This isolation, however, allowed Bateson to articulate a justification for scientific inquiry that was neither utilitarian nor a value-neutral pursuit of truth, but an effort to establish an accurate depiction of the relationship between nature and the human self, which he called the riddle of the Sphinx.

Social scientific inquiry and meta-theoretical fantasy: the case of International Relations

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 1447-1469 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN G. GUNNELL
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Scientific Theory ◽  
Basic Problem ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Philosophical Position ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe turn to the philosophy of scientific realism as a meta-theory for the study of International Relations manifests a reluctance to confront the basic problem of the relationship between philosophy and social scientific inquiry. Despite the realists' rejection of traditional empiricism, and particularly the instrumentalist account of scientific theory, the enthusiasm for realism neglects many of the same problems that, more than a generation earlier, were involved in the social scientific embrace of positivism. One of these problems was a lack of understanding regarding the character and history of the philosophy of natural science and its relationship and applicability to the study of social phenomena. Proponents of realism have also neither adequately articulated and defended realism as a philosophical position, and distinguished it from other perspectives, nor confronted the fundamental challenge to realism and other foundationalist philosophies which has been mounted by the contemporary critique of traditional representational philosophy.

scholarly journals Measuring Micrometers of Matter and Inventing Indices: Entangling Social Perception within Discrete and Continuous Measurements of Air Quality

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Edwin Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Continuous Measurement ◽  
Theory Of Measurement ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Environmental protection agencies around the globe are establishing different methods for measuring particulates, and then integrating those measurements into a single air quality index with other pollutants. At the same time, scientific inquiry has also shifted to a theory of measurement that incorporates discrete and continuous measurement. This article reviews the relationship between discrete measurements and indices, while also speculating on the way that the continuous measurement of air pollution could stimulate awareness and action. The paper argues that continuous measurement must include the way people of different backgrounds perceive air pollution in their lives. After reviewing the methods of measuring particulates and their inclusion into various indices, the article argues that in order to take action to mitigate the health impacts of air pollution, we must allow for the social perception of air pollution to become entangled within our scientific measurements.

scholarly journals Enhancing endorsement of scientific inquiry increases support for pro-environment policies

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 160360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Drummond ◽  
Matthew A. Palmer ◽  
James D. Sauer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Brief Intervention ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environment Policy ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Relationship

Pro-environment policies require public support and engagement, but in countries such as the USA, public support for pro-environment policies remains low. Increasing public scientific literacy is unlikely to solve this, because increased scientific literacy does not guarantee increased acceptance of critical environmental issues (e.g. that climate change is occurring). We distinguish between scientific literacy (basic scientific knowledge) and endorsement of scientific inquiry (perceiving science as a valuable way of accumulating knowledge), and examine the relationship between people's endorsement of scientific inquiry and their support for pro-environment policy. Analysis of a large, publicly available dataset shows that support for pro-environment policies is more strongly related to endorsement of scientific inquiry than to scientific literacy among adolescents. An experiment demonstrates that a brief intervention can increase support for pro-environment policies via increased endorsement of scientific inquiry among adults. Public education about the merits of scientific inquiry may facilitate increased support for pro-environment policies.

Dance Your PhD: Embodied Animations, Body Experiments, and the Affective Entanglements of Life Science Research

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Myers
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Body Work ◽  
Biological Phenomena ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Differential Relations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Science Magazine

In 2008 Science Magazine and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science hosted the first ever Dance Your PhD Contest in Vienna, Austria. Calls for submission to the second, third, and fourth annual Dance Your PhD contests followed suit, attracting hundreds of entries and featuring scientists based in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe and the UK. These contests have drawn significant media attention. While much of the commentary has focused on the novelty of dancing scientists and the function of dance as an effective distraction for overworked researchers, this article takes seriously the relationship between movement and scientific inquiry and draws on ethnographic research among structural biologists to examine the ways that practitioners use their bodies to animate biological phenomena. It documents how practitioners transform their bodies into animating media and how they conduct body experiments to test their hypotheses. This ‘body-work’ helps them to figure out how molecules move and interact, and simultaneously offers a medium through which they can communicate the nuanced details of their findings among students and colleagues. This article explores the affective and kinaesthetic dexterities scientists acquire through their training, and it takes a close look at how this body-work is tacitly enabled and constrained through particular pedagogical techniques and differential relations of gender and power. This article argues that the Dance Your PhD contests, as well as other performative modalities, can expand and extend what it is possible for scientific researchers to see, say, imagine and feel.

scholarly journals Spiritual Values and Spiritual Practices: Interactive Effects on Leadership Effectiveness

ETIKONOMI ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Zakiyulfikri Ali ◽  
Muhammad Zaky
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Leadership Effectiveness ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between spirituality and leadership effectiveness has been discussed over decades. These relations have been separated in two big perspective—first, an esoteric realm of intangible ideas and emotions; and second, a practical area and scientific inquiry. This research tries to integrate these two different perspectives. Specifically, this research examines the effects of spiritual values and spiritual practices on leadership effectiveness. The findings indicate that spiritual values and spiritual practices have positive effects on leadership effectiveness. This research also shows that spiritual values and spiritual practices have interactive effects on leadership effectiveness. This result implies that organizations should enhance the spiritual values and practices. Discussion, practical, and theoretical implications for further researches are offered. DOI: 10.15408/etk.v17i1.6497

scholarly journals Redirecting Feminist Critiques of Science

Hypatia ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 72-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Mccaughey
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Tripartite Model ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
Helen Longino ◽  
The Relationship

Applying the insights of Donna Haraway (1989, 1991) and Helen Longino (1989, 1990), this paper reviews Sandra Harding's (1986a) tripartite model of feminist critiques of science—empiricist, standpoint, and postmodern—and argues that it is based on misunderstandings of the relationship between scientific inquiry, objectivity, and values. An alternative view of scientific inquiry makes it possible to see feminist scientists as postmodern and postmodern feminists as having standpoints.

scholarly journals The Environing Air: A Meditation on Communications Structures in Natural Environments

PhaenEx ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
JUDY SPARK
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Phenomenological Description ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Natural Landscapes ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship

Any attention paid to the positioning of telecommunications installations in natural landscapes usually relates to the aesthetic impact. However, such paraphernalia, particularly when contrasted with “natural” surroundings, invites us to think beyond the visible. Through Heidegger’s accounts of Zuhandenheit and Vorhandenheit, as well as his later articulations on Nature as it is subjected to the ordering principles of Gestell, this paper aims to highlight the overlaps of the natural and the technological worlds inhabited by communications structures, considering the relationship between the human and the natural realms, through the uncertain electromagnetic phenomena that envelops the two. The essay is underpinned by the extended phenomenological description of an encounter with such technology that includes, following Anthony J. Steinbock’s outline of a phenomenological approach that might begin with the facts of the everyday sciences, some reference to the basic concepts of physics involved in transmissions technology.

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