Michael Ruse, The Gaïa hypothesis: science on a pagan planet

Health, Faith, and Science on a Warming Planet.

Global change presents humanity with unprecedented challenges. Climate change, altered natural cycles, and pollution of air, water, and biota threaten the very conditions on which human civilization has depended for the last 12 000 years. While human health is better now than ever before in human history, climate change is undermining many public health advances of the last century and ultimate...

What good are abstract and what-if models? Lessons from the Gaïa hypothesis.

This article on the epistemology of computational models stems from an analysis of the Gaïa hypothesis (GH). It begins with James Kirchner's criticisms of the central computational model of GH: Daisyworld. Among other things, the model has been criticized for being too abstract, describing fictional entities (fictive daisies on an imaginary planet) and trying to answer counterfactual (what-if) ...

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Address correspondence to: Augusto R. Elías-Boneta, DMD, MSD, Assistant Dean of Research, School of Dental Medicine, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, PO Box 365067, San Juan, PR 00936-5067. Email: [email protected] Objective: To estimate the prevalence of hypodontia in a group of 10to 14-yearolds from a group of orthodontic clinics in Puerto Rico. Methods: A cross-sectiona...

Hull and Ruse

the effect of consciousness raising (c-r) on the reduction of translational errors: a case study

در دوره های آموزش ترجمه استادان بیشتر سعی دارند دانشجویان را با انواع متون آشنا سازند، درحالی که کمتر به خطاهای مکرر آنان در متن ترجمه شده می پردازند. اهمیت تحقیق حاضر مبنی بر ارتکاب مکرر خطاهای ترجمانی حتی بعد از گذراندن دوره های تخصصی ترجمه از سوی دانشجویان است. هدف از آن تاکید بر خطاهای رایج میان دانشجویان مترجمی و کاهش این خطاها با افزایش آگاهی و هوشیاری دانشجویان از بروز آنها است.از آنجا ک...