Physical geography continues to have complex relationships both with Geography as a whole and the natural sciences. At time when nature future of physical its sub-disciplines has been questioned, I explore these changing their impacts on discipline itself our collective ability understand address environmental crises. The exploration is through themes disciplinary shape institutional change, ge...

Contrary to claims about the irrelevance of philosophy for science, I argue that has had, and still has, far more influence on physics than is commonly assumed. maintain current anti-philosophical ideology had damaging effects fertility science. also suggest recent important empirical results, such as detection Higgs particle gravitational waves, failure detect supersymmetry where many expected...

Judgments about the perceptual appearance of visual objects require the combination of multiple parameters, like location, direction, color, speed, and depth. Our understanding of perceptual judgments has been greatly informed by studies of ambiguous figures, which take on different appearances depending upon the brain state of the observer. Here we probe the neural mechanisms hypothesized as r...

♣ Introduction. Coding theory originated with the advent of computers. Early computers were huge mechanical monsters whose reliability was low compared to the computers of today. Based, as they were, on banks of mechanical relays, if a single relay failed to close the entire calculation was in error. The engineers of the day devised ways to detect faulty relays so that they could be replaced. W...

While much that is written about the unity of consciousness does, as Dainton says, traffic in vague metaphors and exaggerated claims, Dainton’s book is a superb example of sober thinking and meticulous attention to detail. Stream of Consciousness can be roughly divided into three projects, projects that are bound together by co-consciousness. In the present context ‘co-consciousness’ refers to ...

method of explanation and the nature of scientific laws in the human sciences in no way differ from those in the natural sciences. Scientific laws in the human sciences describe generative mechanisms that underlie events. For example, the Freudian Unconscious is a description of a number of generative mechanisms that underlie psychological events. The human sciences differ from the natural scie...