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Author(s):  
Richard Cooper

Empirical science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed public health. Improvement in nutrition and living conditions were the driving forces, linked to basic sanitation. The principles of public health also proved highly effective in prevention of chronic disease, such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. However, the dominant force in biomedicine has become genomics and “precision medicine,” both of which ignore the role of environmental exposures, and focus on individual, not collective risk. Genetic determinism and technological solutions have narrowed the scope of research aimed at improving population health, and reduced the benefits that biomedical science and public health could provide. The COVID-19 pandemic is the same story in bold print.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Titania Modingge

Every Christian, especially children, really need criteria to test the truth, views, and understandings that develop in the midst of context. Christians believe that God is the source of truth and has revealed His truth in and through the word and person of Christians. Therefore, the philosophical formulation of Christians who contemplate various aspects of life cannot be separated from the framework of the Bible's thought as God's written revelation.Christian education for children as part of the spiritual sciences in empirical science is called to be able to test certainty, truth, views, and understandings that develop in the context of a society that has been influenced by modern science that has developed apart from the word of God. Christians as educators for children must hold that God is the source of truth and has revealed His truth in the Word and the Christian person. The Bible should be a source of education for children.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Titania Modingge

Every Christian, especially children, really need criteria to test the truth, views, and understandings that develop in the midst of context. Christians believe that God is the source of truth and has revealed His truth in and through the word and person of Christians. Therefore, the philosophical formulation of Christians who contemplate various aspects of life cannot be separated from the framework of the Bible's thought as God's written revelation.Christian education for children as part of the spiritual sciences in empirical science is called to be able to test certainty, truth, views, and understandings that develop in the context of a society that has been influenced by modern science that has developed apart from the word of God. Christians as educators for children must hold that God is the source of truth and has revealed His truth in the Word and the Christian person. The Bible should be a source of education for children.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-401
Author(s):  
Serghey Gherdjikov ◽  

In this paper I present a new dimension for philosophical and scientific analysis of artifacts as anthropogenic abiotic objects along the lines of the distinction between real and virtual. This distinction purports to replace the classical opposition material–ideal as a better way of defining what an artifact is and as one more compatible with the scientific description and explanation of artefacts. The virtual relativity of the virtual artifacts is their relatedness to local language forms as an adequate coordinate system. The real relativity of artifacts is their relatedness to local and global human life processes. The article follows empirical science as a technique of studying artifacts, and subscribes to the anthropological paradigm.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Zongpei Ma

The existing research paradigm has caused the research of educational theory to be criticized for lack of logic and scientificity. With the gradual deepening and refinement of the development of smart education platforms, the educational process can be quantified, and the research paradigm of educational science has moved from a sampling model to a full-sample model, and it has become a real empirical science. This paper combines the Internet of Things technology to construct a hybrid intelligent learning system and applies it to digital education in a diverse society to construct a functional structure of the extraction system. Moreover, starting from the actual situation of intelligent education, this paper combines a simulation system to implement an IoT-assisted hybrid intelligent learning architecture and evaluates the teaching effect of the system. Through experimental research, it can be known that the IoT-assisted hybrid intelligent learning framework based on social diversified digital education has certain effects and has a certain reference effect for the development of subsequent intelligent education.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Rata Lanei Alexander

<p>Attacks on excessive consumption are an enduring theme in Western biblical and Greco- Roman thought. This dissertation attempts to unravel the cultural and political context of two such critiques. The 'culture' of gluttony at the Court of King James still stands as a stereotype largely left unchanged by the recent revisionist historiography. This dissertation argues that James's Court was unexceptional when placed in the context of other English and European Courts. Polemical attacks on the culture of 'gluttony' at the Court of King James were motivated by political contest. Proximity to the King's person allowed for unrivalled privilege and reward. The attacks on James's new favourites came from the old nobility, once at the centre, and now relegated to the periphery, while those targeted, James's 'new men', came from the periphery. Competition for resources also informed the allegations of cannibalism made against New World peoples. Under the Spanish, attacks against the 'cannibals' at the periphery were designed to justify the appropriation of their resources. The English, when their opportunity came, could no longer convincingly accuse those at the periphery of cannibalism. New economic arguments and empirical science together promoted a new focus on 'culture', which suggested that Amerindians belonged at the periphery. At some stage in their 'development' and under proper Christian tutelage, and if they behaved themselves, they might be incorporated into the centre. In the meantime, English 'trade and friendship'  would assist in their education. This dissertation makes an original contribution by demonstrating that bodily practices sit at the heart of enduring political contests.</p>


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Rata Lanei Alexander

<p>Attacks on excessive consumption are an enduring theme in Western biblical and Greco- Roman thought. This dissertation attempts to unravel the cultural and political context of two such critiques. The 'culture' of gluttony at the Court of King James still stands as a stereotype largely left unchanged by the recent revisionist historiography. This dissertation argues that James's Court was unexceptional when placed in the context of other English and European Courts. Polemical attacks on the culture of 'gluttony' at the Court of King James were motivated by political contest. Proximity to the King's person allowed for unrivalled privilege and reward. The attacks on James's new favourites came from the old nobility, once at the centre, and now relegated to the periphery, while those targeted, James's 'new men', came from the periphery. Competition for resources also informed the allegations of cannibalism made against New World peoples. Under the Spanish, attacks against the 'cannibals' at the periphery were designed to justify the appropriation of their resources. The English, when their opportunity came, could no longer convincingly accuse those at the periphery of cannibalism. New economic arguments and empirical science together promoted a new focus on 'culture', which suggested that Amerindians belonged at the periphery. At some stage in their 'development' and under proper Christian tutelage, and if they behaved themselves, they might be incorporated into the centre. In the meantime, English 'trade and friendship'  would assist in their education. This dissertation makes an original contribution by demonstrating that bodily practices sit at the heart of enduring political contests.</p>


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Scott Waygood

<p>The central claim of this thesis is that geometry is a quasi-empirical science based on the idealisation of the elementary physical operations that we actually perform with pen and paper. This conclusion is arrived at after searching for a theory of geometry that will not only explain the epistemology and ontology of mathematics, but will also fit with the best practices of working mathematicians and, more importantly, explain why geometry gives us knowledge that is relevant to physical reality. We will be considering all the major schools of thought in the philosophy of mathematics. Firstly, from the epistemological side, we will consider apriorism, empiricism and quasi-empiricism, finding a Kitcherian style of quasi-empiricism to be the most attractive. Then, from the ontological side, we will consider Platonism, formalism, Kitcherian ontology, and fictionalism. Our conclusion will be to take a Kitcherian epistemology and a fictionalist ontology. This will give us a kind of quasiempirical-fictionalist approach to mathematics. The key feature of Kitcher's thesis is that he placed importance on the operations rather than the entities of arithmetic. However, because he only dealt with arithmetic, we are left with the task of developing a theory of geometry along Kitcherian lines. I will present a theory of geometry that parallels Kitcher's theory of arithmetic using the drawing of straight lines as the most primitive operation. We will thereby develop a theory of geometry that is founded upon our operations of drawing lines. Because this theory is based on our line drawing operations carried out in physical reality, and is the idealisation of those activities, we will have a connection between mathematical geometry and physical reality that explains the predictive power of geometry in the real world. Where Kitcher uses the Peano postulates to develop his theory of arithmetic, I will use the postulates of projective geometry to form the foundations of operational geometry. The reason for choosing projective geometry is due to the fact that by taking it as the foundation, we may apply Klein's Erlanger programme and build a theory of geometry that encompasses Euclidean, hyperbolic and elliptic geometries. The final question we will consider is the problem of conventionalism. We will discover that investigations into conventionalism give us further reason to accept the Kitcherian quasi-empirical-fictionalist approach as the most appealing philosophy of geometry available.</p>


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Scott Waygood

<p>The central claim of this thesis is that geometry is a quasi-empirical science based on the idealisation of the elementary physical operations that we actually perform with pen and paper. This conclusion is arrived at after searching for a theory of geometry that will not only explain the epistemology and ontology of mathematics, but will also fit with the best practices of working mathematicians and, more importantly, explain why geometry gives us knowledge that is relevant to physical reality. We will be considering all the major schools of thought in the philosophy of mathematics. Firstly, from the epistemological side, we will consider apriorism, empiricism and quasi-empiricism, finding a Kitcherian style of quasi-empiricism to be the most attractive. Then, from the ontological side, we will consider Platonism, formalism, Kitcherian ontology, and fictionalism. Our conclusion will be to take a Kitcherian epistemology and a fictionalist ontology. This will give us a kind of quasiempirical-fictionalist approach to mathematics. The key feature of Kitcher's thesis is that he placed importance on the operations rather than the entities of arithmetic. However, because he only dealt with arithmetic, we are left with the task of developing a theory of geometry along Kitcherian lines. I will present a theory of geometry that parallels Kitcher's theory of arithmetic using the drawing of straight lines as the most primitive operation. We will thereby develop a theory of geometry that is founded upon our operations of drawing lines. Because this theory is based on our line drawing operations carried out in physical reality, and is the idealisation of those activities, we will have a connection between mathematical geometry and physical reality that explains the predictive power of geometry in the real world. Where Kitcher uses the Peano postulates to develop his theory of arithmetic, I will use the postulates of projective geometry to form the foundations of operational geometry. The reason for choosing projective geometry is due to the fact that by taking it as the foundation, we may apply Klein's Erlanger programme and build a theory of geometry that encompasses Euclidean, hyperbolic and elliptic geometries. The final question we will consider is the problem of conventionalism. We will discover that investigations into conventionalism give us further reason to accept the Kitcherian quasi-empirical-fictionalist approach as the most appealing philosophy of geometry available.</p>


Axiomathes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Buzzoni

AbstractElsewhere I have tried to provide the justification of both the irreducible (transcendental) distinction of science and philosophy and their inevitable (naturalistic) complementarity. Unlike empirical science, philosophy has no limit whatever as far as its possible objects are concerned. To say that there is no limit whatever to the possible objects of philosophy is to say that, strictly speaking, it has no object at all and must find its object outside itself, that is, in common sense knowledge and the natural and human sciences. Against the background of this conception, the paper argues that philosophy of science, as a critical reflection on common sense knowledge and the natural or human sciences, inherits from philosophy in general this two-faced Janus nature, which in the philosophy of science shapes the epistemological status of the discipline in an even more prominent way. To show this in detail, the paper enunciates eleven theses that derive from the intimate connection of unity and distinction that exists between philosophy of science on the one hand and the particular and specialized scientific knowledge on the other.


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