adopting feminist perspectives is, by and large, novel in social science. however, feminism historical background might be followed until 18th century. through the years, patriarchal epistemology and gendered metaphysics of science have been criticized fundamentally by radical feminist thinkers. although such criticisms obviously have limitations, their constructive role in addressing original ...

The Daubert trilogy and the calls for reform that preceded it have echoed through the legal and scientific communities since the early 1990s. Much has been made of the limited views of the scientific enterprise reflected in the Supreme Court’s decisions. Critics argue that the Court accepted a standardized view of science that serves the interests of the business community and key elements of o...

Because the basic unit of biology is the cell, biological knowledge is rooted in the epistemology of the cell, and because life is the salient characteristic of the cell, its epistemology must be centered on its livingness, not its constituent components. The organization and regulation of these components in the pursuit of life constitute the fundamental nature of the cell. Thus, regulation si...

Recent years have seen a surge in online collaboration between experts and amateurs on scientific research. In this article, we analyse the epistemological implications of these crowdsourced projects, with a focus on Zooniverse, the world’s largest citizen science web portal. We use quantitative methods to evaluate the platform’s success in producing large volumes of observation statements and ...

Ali Benmakhlouf, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nice, France Ahmad Hasnawi, CNRS, Paris 7, France Olga Pombo, President of the Centre of Philosophy of Science, FCUL, Portugal Shahid Rahman, Professor of Logic and Epistemology at the University of Lille 3, France Roshdi Rashed, CNRS, Paris 7, France Hassan Tahiri, CFCUL, Portugal Nuno Melim, Scientific Collaborator at the CFCUL, Po...

Ecotourism-based contextual science learning is one of the sciences about in field which carried out with a approach (CTL) and then associated its meaning ecotourism. Science studied 3 (three) major aspects philosophy, namely ontology, epistemology, axiology. learning, ontologically, discussion focuses on ecotourism-based learning. Does really exist? Or it just name? How different from other le...