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12 Jul 2024: P4: Philosophy of Economics. 10am.

Scientists, on the other hand, validate their constructs and measures using psychometric tests. ... 8 October Jim Moore (Open University). Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin.

12 Jul 2024: The toad is slow to let you know'. October 2016. As Parliament debates the hormonal pregnancy test Primodos and its alleged links to birth defects, at the H-Word blog Jesse

12 Jul 2024: of Economics and Political Science, where I was a Faculty Mentor for the local chapter of Minorities and Philosophy. ... and my MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

12 Jul 2024: This entanglement of scholarly and economic interests is particularly visible in Gomes' concern about the plant's increasing rarity. ... Additional reading: Karni, Edi, and Marie-Louise Vierø. (2013). '"Reverse Bayesianism": A Choice-Based Theory of

12 Jul 2024: In the 20th century, biomedicine built upon this legacy to become a major object of economic, political and ethical concern. ... Though our medicine had in its essential features been made by World War I, only in the 20th century did it become a major

24 Jul 2023: 4. Must economics be a deductive science? 5. Which value judgments help economics and which harm it? ... 10. What evidence is needed to test the effectiveness of a medical intervention?

12 Jul 2024: We examine the entwined social, physical, and economic timescales of climate change over the entire period it took to remake climate, and to recognise that we are changing it. ... The Economic Explanation', in Paolo Heywood and Matei Candea, eds. Beyond

12 Jul 2024: We test the hypothesis that this kind of physics was specifically born as a science of the global environment, forging a connexion between models of planetary environments and of patterns of ... Similar aims are pursued more technically within current

12 Jul 2024: varying degrees by inductive inferences, and medical research is developed in a complex political and economic nexus.

12 Jul 2024: MIT and Stanford, for instance, cultivated a cosy relationship with both industry and government, at times steering their research towards economic and military interests. ... 9 May. Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics). Du Bois' plan for

This problem, to be sure, is widespread across the sciences. According to the ‘received view’, invariance under intervention provides the crucial test to decide whether X causes Y. ... Meehl, P.E. (1955). Construct Validity in Psychological Tests.

12 Jul 2024: Efficiency, Responsibility and Disability: Philosophical Lessons from the Savings Argument for Pre-Natal Diagnosis', Politics, Philosophy and Economics 14 (2015): 3–22.

12 Jul 2024: Changing forms of climate knowledge thus depend on the kinds of potencies attributed to different kinds of social, economic and physical forces. ... Previous historians have rarely attempted to approach these relations over the full period through which

12 Jul 2024: The politics of imperialism and of technological and economic transformations of modernity through the development of industrial capital were crucial for working institutions and practical conduct of physical sciences worldwide. ... Science and

24 Jul 2023: 3. The ‘health of the nation’ has economic and military significance; evaluate the. ... 8. Is human genetic testing eugenics in disguise? 9. Eligibility tests for women’s sports have been called ‘sex tests’, ‘gender tests’.

12 Jul 2024: As sericulture gained popularity, various political, economic, and scientific interests converged as experts, bureaucrats, and industry leaders confronted a need to organize a multiplying number of cocoon-spinners strains. ... This has also involved

12 Jul 2024: Lauren Kassell holds a BA in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Haverford College; an MSc in Economic and Social History, University of Oxford; and a DPhil in History from the University

12 Jul 2024: The course explores the historical, philosophical and social dimensions of the sciences, the ways in which the sciences are shaped by other aspects of social and economic life, and the roles

12 Jul 2024: We especially welcome contributions that contextualize CGIAR centers within the political, economic, social, and environmental histories and historiographies of the host locations.