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Why do biologists use so many diagrams?
Diagrams circadian rhythms mechanistic explanations
2016/5/31
Diagrams have distinctive characteristics that make them an effective medium for communicating research findings, but they are even more impressive as tools for scientific reasoning. Focusing on circa...
Warranting the use of causal claims:a non-trivial case for interdisciplinarity
causal inference ceteris paribus policy evaluation abstraction prediction external validity inferencia causal evaluacion de políticas abstraccion prediccion validez externa
2016/5/31
To what use can causal claims established in good policy studies be put? We isolate two reasons inferences from study to target fail. First, policy variables do not produce results on their own; they ...
Against the inappropriate use of numerical representation in social simulation
numbers measurement theory social simulation philosophy of science
2015/7/30
All tools have their advantages and disadvantages and for all tools there are times when they are appropriate and times when they are not. Formal tools are no exception to this and systems of numbers ...
Van Fraassen's Long Journey from Isomorphism to Use
Van Fraassen's Long Journey Isomorphism Use Philosophers of Science
2011/9/8
Review of Bas Van Fraassen, Scientific Representation, Oxford University Press, 2008.
Evidence for Use: The Role of Case Studies in Political Science Research
political science case studies causality
2009/9/11
In its most recent form, the debate about the relationship between quantitative and qualitative methodology in political science has been shaped by the publication of Designing Social Inquiry: Scienti...
What concept of disease should politicians use? Norman Daniels and the unjustifiable appeal of naturalistic analyses of health
Norman Daniels Christopher Boorse normal functioning bio-statistical theory of health
2009/4/8
Norman Daniels argues that health is important for justice because it affects the distribution of opportunities. He claims that a just society should guarantee fair opportunities by promoting and rest...
The Use of Examples
Examples Goodman Kant
2008/4/21
One of the most important problems for a study of symbolic practices (pictorial, verbal or other) is the choice of a language of description that is general enough to allow for comparisons between dif...
Theories for Use: On the Bearing of Basic Science on Practical Problems
science policy model applied research
2008/4/21
Funding policies for science are usually directed at supporting technological innovations. The im-pact and success of such policies depend crucially on how science and technology are connected to each...
I investigate the consequences for semantics, and in particular for the semantics of tense, if time is assumed to have a branching structure not out of metaphysical necessity (to solve some philosophi...
AN EXPERIMENT IN THE USE OF GAMES IN THE TEACHING OF MENTAL ARITHMETIC
MENTAL ARITHMETIC EXPERIMENT
2008/4/8
INTRODUCTION
Following a voluntary pilot test in 1997, a statutory mental arithmetic test was introduced into the Key Stage 3 SATS examinations during 1998 for all pupils in England and Wales working...
Teaching Teachers to Use Data to Inform Issues of Equity and Instruction
Equity Instruction
2008/4/7
This paper reports on research on the development of teachers’ inquiry skills in undertaking independent projects using data from high stakes tests in a course on the science and politics of testing. ...
The Paradox of Conceptual Novelty and Galileo’s Use of Experiments
Experiments Conceptual Novelty
2008/3/31
Starting with a discussion of what I call Koyré’s paradox of conceptual novelty, I introduce the ideas of Damerow et al. on the establishment of classical mechanics in Galileo’s work. I then argue tha...