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  • KNOWLEDGE & SOCIETY

    Through Science Matters & Universities

    Series Book 7 - SCIENCE MATTERS SERIES
    Scimat (Science Matters) is the new multidiscipline that deals with the science of humans. It aims to raise the scientific level of the humanities by encouraging interaction between humanists and natural scientists. This book arises from a very special conjunction between different scientists meeting together for the VII International Conference on Science Matters at - NOVA School of Business and ... Read more

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  • Interdisciplinarity and General Education in the 21st Century

    Series Book 5 - Science Matters Series
    Scimat (Science Matters) is the new multidiscipline that deals with the science of humans. It aims to raise the scientific level of the humanities by encouraging interaction between humanists and natural scientists. This book Interdisciplinarity and General Education in the 21st Century derives from the fifth international scimat conference of the same title, held in Cascais, Portugal, in October ... Read more

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  • Bettering Humanity

    Through Communication & Cultures

    Series Book 6 - SCIENCE MATTERS SERIES
    Scimat (Science Matters) is the new multidiscipline that deals with the science of humans. It aims to raise the scientific level of the humanities by encouraging interaction between humanists and natural scientists. This book arises from a very special conjunction between several different scientists meeting together for the tenth anniversary of the Science Matters Conferences at Cascais Cultural ... Read more

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  • Culture, Curiosity and Communication in Scientific Discovery

    The Eye in Ideas

    by Nigel Sanitt ...
    Many aspects of research activity in science are opaque to outsiders and this opacity infects how connections are made between science and other disciplines. The aim of Culture, Curiosity and Communication in Scientific Discovery is to try to shine a light through the mist of scientific research by way of examples taken from the sciences, social sciences and the humanities.The book maintains that ... Read more

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  • Routledge Revivals: Science as a Questioning Process

    by Nigel Sanitt ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1996, Science as a Questioning Process evaluates scientific theories through from Darwinian evolution to relativity, and from quantum theory to cosmology. It offers an examination of these theories, in terms of a compromise between resolvable empirical questions, and theoretical questions left unresolved. The book asks questions that deal with both intellectual and public ... Read more

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    Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene

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  • Urban Cosmopolitics

    Agencements, assemblies, atmospheres

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  • Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle

    Learning by Example in Humanities and Social Science Research

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    This open access book illustrates how interdisciplinary research develops over the lifetime of a scholar: not in a single project, but as an attitude that trickles down, or spirals up, into research. This book presents how interdisciplinary work has inspired shifts in how the contributors read, value concepts, critically combine methods, cope with knowledge hierarchies, write in style, and ... Read more

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  • History of Universities: Volume XXXIV/1

    A Global History of Research Education: Disciplines, Institutions, and Nations, 1840-1950

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    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. History of Universities XXXIV/1 contains the customary mix of learned articles which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. This ... Read more

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