Validation and models in computational biomedical sciences: Philosophy, science, engineering

Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Science and Engineering

Biomedical science and engineering is an interdisciplinary research field, which combines the advanced technologies and problem solving skills with medical and biological science. Since the biomedical solutions generally have large variations and complexity, it is difficult to use a simple way or a classical approach to find the solutions. Computation intelligence techniques such as neural netw...

Applied Mathematics in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering

Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

This paper examines the claims of the Gestalt psychologists that there was a crisis in experimental psychology ca. 1900, which arose because the prevailing sensory atomism excluded meaning from among psychological phenomena. The Gestaltists claim that a primary motivation of their movement was to show, against the speculative psychologists and philosophers and Verstehen historians, that natural...

Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Please cite this article in press as: Sturm, T. , & History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedic In this introductory article, we provide a historical and philosophical framework for studying crisis discussions in psychology. We first trace the various meanings of crisis talk outside and inside of the sciences. We then turn to Kuhn’s concept of crisis, which is mainly an analyst’s category...

Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

1369-8486/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.02.001 E-mail address: [email protected] 1 Robert Koch (1843–1910) is often credited with th 1883) during the Asiatic Cholera Pandemic of 1846–18 1854). However, there is no evidence that this data wa detail, see Bentivoglio & Pacini (1995) and Howard-Jon In the mid-1800s, there was much debate about the origin or ‘e...