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The Scholarly Experience: Wisdom in the Syriac World (Fourth–Twelfth Century)
In Syriac scholarship, knowledge was intimately tied to the scholar as a person who possessed it. It was firmly embedded in the web of customs, morals
Science Social Special: There Is No One History of Science (but It’s All Interconnected)
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“Reflex” is an early physiological term that was initially used to separate involuntary, mechanical movements from those driven by will. During the fi
Seminar | Okt 28, 2019 | 14:00 bis 15:30
Eddington’s Philosophy of Science
Max Planck Research Group (Final Theory Program)
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Lorraine Daston featured in an article in Tagesspiegel on the 100 most important academics in Berlin
Go To Article (German, Paywall)The Evolution of Social Sciences in China since the late 1970s
Social sciences arguably only emerged in the People’s Republic of China in the late 1970s when the Chinese economic reform began. This research projec
Measuring a Patient: Psychometric and Clinimetric Validation Practices and the Emergence of Idiographic Indexes, 1970s–2000s
In the decades approaching the twenty-first century, “clinimetrics” was a way to describe a methodological approach to measuring patients that, while
Biological Motion: A History of Life
Biological motion has recently become a key concept guiding life-science research on the basic functions of the organism. But investigations into the