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This book presents a cultural history of psychology that analyzes
the diverse contexts in which psychological knowledge and practices
have developed in Latin America. The book aims to contribute to the
growing effort to develop a theoretical knowledge that complements
the biographical perspective centered on the great figures, with a
polycentric history that emphasizes the different cultural, social,
economic and political phenomena that accompanied the emergence of
psychology. The different chapters of this volume show the
production of historians of psychology in Latin America who are
part of the Ibero-American Network of Researchers in History of
Psychology (RIPeHP, in the Portuguese acronym for "Rede
Iberoamericana de Pesquisadores em Historia da Psicologia"). They
present a significant sample of the research carried out in a field
that has experienced a strong development in the region in the last
decades. The volume is divided into two parts. The first presents
comparative chapters that address cross-cutting issues in the
different countries of the region. The second part analyzes
particular aspects of the development of psychology in seven
countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay and
Peru. Throughout these chapters the reader will find how psychology
made its way through dictatorial governments, phenomena of violence
and internal armed conflict, among others. Dimensions that include
rigorous analysis ranging from ancestral practices to current
geopolitical knowledge of the Latin American region. History of
Psychology in Latin America - A Cultural Approach is an invaluable
resource for historians of psychology, anywhere in the world,
interested in a polycentric and critical approach. Since its
content is part of the "cultural turn in psychology" it is also of
interest to readers interested in the social and human sciences in
general. Finally, the thoroughly international perspective provided
through its chapters make the book a key resource for both
undergraduate and graduate teaching and education on the past and
current state of psychology.
This book presents a multidisciplinary guide to gauge theory and
gravity, with chapters by the world's leading theoretical
physicists, mathematicians, historians and philosophers of science.
The contributions from theoretical physics explore e.g. the
consistency of the unification of gravitation and quantum theory,
the underpinnings of experimental tests of gauge theory and its
role in shedding light on the relationship between mathematics and
physics. In turn, historians and philosophers of science assess the
impact of Weyl's view on the philosophy of science. Graduate
students, lecturers and researchers in the fields of history of
science, theoretical physics and philosophy of science will benefit
from this book by learning about the role played by Weyl's
Raum-Zeit-Materie in shaping several modern research fields, and by
gaining insights into the future prospects of gauge theory in both
theoretical and experimental physics. Furthermore, the book
facilitates interdisciplinary exchange and conceptual innovation in
tackling fundamental questions about our deepest theories of
physics. Chapter "Weyl's Raum-Zeit-Materie and the Philosophy of
Science" is available open access under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com
This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances
are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century British literary and cultural texts. Covering
several genres, such as novels, poetry, autobiography and
non-fiction, individual essays provide insights on eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century understandings of drug effects of opium, alcohol
and many other plant-based substances. Contributors consider both
contemporary and recent medical knowledge in order to contextualise
and illuminate understandings of how drugs were utilised as
stimulants, as relaxants, for pleasure, as pain relievers and for
other purposes. Chapters also examine the novelty of
experimentations of drugs in conversation with the way literary
texts incorporate them, highlighting the importance of literary and
cultural texts for addressing ethical questions.
This book offers a comprehensive study and account of the
co-evolution of technological and scientific literature in the
early modern period (1450-1750). It examines the various
relationships of these literatures in six areas of knowledge -
Architecture, Chemistry, Gunnery, Mechanical Engineering, Mining,
and Practical Mathematics - which represent the main types of
advanced technological and scientific knowledge of the era. These
six fields of technologically advanced knowledge and their
interrelations and interactions with learned knowledge are
investigated and discussed through a specific lens: by focusing on
the technological literature. Among present-day historians of
science, it hardly remains controversial that contact and exchange
between educated and practical knowledge played a significant role
in the development of the natural sciences and technology in early
modern Europe. Several paths for such exchange arose from the late
Middle Ages onward due to the formation of an economy of knowledge
that fostered contacts and exchange between the two worlds. How can
this development be adequately described and how, on the basis of
such a description, can the significance of this process for the
early modern history of knowledge in the West be assessed? These
are the overarching questions this book tries to answer. There
exists a considerable amount of literature concerning several
stations and events in the course of this long development process
as well as its various aspects. As meritorious and indispensable as
many of these studies are, none of them tried to portray this
process as a whole with its most essential branches. What is more,
many of them implicitly or explicitly took physics as a model of
science, and thus highlighted mechanics and mechanical engineering
as the model of all interrelations of practical and learned
knowledge. By contrast, this book aims at a more complete portrait
of the early modern interrelations and interactions between learned
and practical knowledge. It tries to convey a new idea of the
variety and disunity of these relations by discussing and comparing
altogether six widely different fields of knowledge and practice.
The targeted audience of this book is first of all the historians
of science and technology. As one of the peer reviewers suggested -
the book could very well become a textbook used for teaching the
history of science and technology at universities. Furthermore,
since the book addresses fundamental aspects of the significance
emergence and development of modern science has for the self-image
of the West, it can be expected that it will attract the attention
and interest of a wider readership than professional historians.
This book offers a comprehensive introduction in to the various
theories of colour and how they developed over the centuries and
millennia. As colour is the perception of light by our brains, the
book captures not only the physical phenomena but also
psychological and philosophical aspects of colours. It starts with
ancient studies of Greek philosophers and their insights into light
and mirrors, then reviews the theory of colors in the middle ages
in Europe and Middle East. The last big part of the book explains
the theories of colours by modern scientists and philosophers,
starting with Isaac Newton and ending colour schemes of modern
digital pictures.
This book presents a brief compilation of results from nearly a
century of research on the globular star clusters in the Andromeda
Galaxy (M31). It explores the techniques and limitations of the
observations, the successes and challenges of the models, and the
paradigm for the formation of M31 that has gradually emerged. These
results will eventually be superseded by new data, better analysis
techniques, and more complex models. However, the emphasis of this
book is on the techniques, thought processes, and connections with
other studies.
This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban
intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication
technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century.
It argues that governmental and social regimes of control and forms
of political resistance converge in speculation on disaster and
that this convergence has formed a vision of urban environments in
the Americas in which forms of play and imaginations of catastrophe
intersect in the vertical field. Schifani explores a diverse range
of resistant urban interventions, imagining the city as on the
verge of or enmeshed in catastrophe. She also presents a model of
ecocriticism that addresses aesthetic practices and forms of play
in the urban environment. Tracing the historical roots of such
tactics as well as mapping their hopes for the future will help the
reader to locate the impacts of climate change not only on the
physical space of the city, but also on the epistemological and
aesthetic strategies that cities can help to engender. This book
will be of great interest to students and scholars of Urban
Studies, Media Studies, American Studies, Global Studies, and the
broad and interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities.
As both chemist and priest your scribe believes that the current
gap between science and religion can be bridged largely by
revelation. Revelation is a select part of religion, often beyond
the ken or competence of qualified science. Types of revelation
comprise the manifest supernatural and prophecy, fulfilled prophecy
supporting what is yet to be fulfilled. The book offers answers and
asks a variety of questions. This book is written in four sections,
each with chapter-like and numbered subsections: Section 1 the most
scriptural and salvational Section 2 the most prophetic or
revelatory Section 3 the most scientific and integrative knowledge
Section 4 the most semantic and hypothetic Section 1 Scripture, Old
and New Testament, appears to be a rich source of revelation and
other reliable spiritual reality. Its integrity distinguishes
divine and human reporting, also religion versus irreligion. Jesus'
early advent fulfilled dozens of Old Testament prophecies; divine
evidence for the reliability of its revelation. Scripture reveals
that Jesus of Nazareth walked among us, both man and God. Section 2
Section 2 comprise a commentary upon the Revelation to John. The
prophecy concentrated therein is mysterious in part yet relatively
ordered and culminating. It helps to organize other prophecy
revealed in Scripture. And it serves to guide our on-going
participation with the ascended Christ as Lord. Prophecy reveals
that God has operated mightily in and on history, that he has
revealed essential parts of his plan and care for mankind. Section
3 Without religion, science, particularly inanimate science, tends
to support determinism, also a relatively rigid causation or
rationalism. Science develops knowledge more than understanding.
Section 3 attempts to assemble salient science together with a
minor proportion of related hypotheses. Your scribe believes that
God's concern and involvement and control of life is more intimate
and profound than most science and philosophy has indicated.
Section 4 The relatively hypothetic Section 4 comprises much
supposition, some semantically treated. Suppositions are offered
concerning material or systematic structures for said living sub
matter in body, mind and soul. Life after first death is a gift
from the soul's Creator. Spirits just and unjust await resurrection
in the spirit, not in the flesh, not in reincarnation. Tthe soul is
foundational to theology and tends to respond to spiritual reality,
to living sub matter, particularly to God and other souls.
An introduction to the history of genetics and the rethinking of
evolutionism.
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God and Gravity
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Philip Clayton; Edited by Bradford Mccall
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"Listening to Your iGod" revives the discussion of religion and
science and the parallels that exist between the two fields of
thought.
Author Tyler James presents his thoughts on why these two very
different schools of thought may actually complement each other at
times. Jesus taught in parables that offered parallels between
nature and God's word. Jesus himself was paralleled with nature as
well, lending credence to the idea that there is more to spreading
God's word than the obvious.
Consideration of the segregation and feud between science and
religion points to similar segregation and differences among the
world's societies and religions today. James suggests that the
world as a whole needs to gain greater maturity in order to get
past these differences and live in harmony. Moreover, this
connection is even more relevant given the impending apocalypse,
which he believes will begin in 2016.
By showing the parallels between science and religion in
"Listening to Your iGod," James hopes to lay the groundwork for
connection and harmony.
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