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Rozumnie wierzyć – rozumnie poznawać. Uniwersytet miejscem dialogu między nauką i wiarą

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Chrobak S.

Seminare. Poszukiwania naukowe

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2012

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vol. 31

171-181

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For centuries, the search for truth has been one of the most important tasks for universities and academia. Truth has been the foundation of these institutions. Knowing the truth is a unique spiritual joy (gaudium veritatis). The role of the university in the modern world is not only to observe the events and comment upon them, but also to search for truth and serve humanity. The service of truth and humanity requires crossing the borders of individual disciplines. The dialogue between science and faith can grow creatively in such a way as to overcome the restrictions imposed and open up to the full potential of the combination. Thus faith by its nature requires that its object be understood with the aid of reason, and reason seeking the full truth opens up to what faith can present. Faith enters into human life and knowledge not in order to abolish reason's autonomy, nor to limit its scope for action. Faith cannot therefore lead to some form of depreciation of reason. These two realities - faith and reason - intertwine and complement each other, while each has its own space in which it becomes real.

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Ekologiczny postulat nauki dla zrównoważonego rozwoju

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Łepko Z.

Seminare. Poszukiwania naukowe

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2010

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vol. 27

77-86

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Es deutet viel darauf hin, dass die Naturkrise der wissenschaftlich-technischen Welt in unserem Denken, nicht erst im Handeln beginnt. Weil in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft nicht die richtige Ziele verfolgt werden, gibt es einen Mangel an Erhaltungswissen und ein Übermaß Zerstörungswissen. Zu revidieren sind aber nicht die Ergebnisse der herrschenden Wissenschaft, sondern Erkenntnisideale, unter denen es dazu kommt. Um zu erfahren, was für die Zukunft wissenswert wäre, müssten die Natur und unser Natursein ganzheitlich umfassender gedacht werden, als es in der herrschenden Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft geschieht.

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Beauty and Judgement in German Aesthetics

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Marinescu A.

Human and Social Studies

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2014

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vol. 3

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issue 1

124-138

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The birth of aesthetics in the 18th century marks the passage from beauty to fine taste and the emergence of art as a separate sphere of culture. Indeed, before the Renaissance, art is not viewed separately from handcraft and the craftsman does not receive the distinctive status of a specialist of beautiful, an artist. This is due to two sets of reasons: first, the transformation of beauty, which becomes little by little a matter of taste and is subjective, and second, the emergence in the European culture of a special status for the artist, distinguishing him from the artisan. This slow evolution announced at the beginning of the Renaissance, will be completed only at the beginning of the 19th century

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Change as the Subject of Research in the International Relations Science

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Łoś–Nowak T.

Polish Political Science Yearbook

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2008

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vol. 37

157-183

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Questions asked above are in fact questions about theoretical identity, explanative efficiency and scope of researches in the international relations science, undertaken attempts of answering them decide on particular complexity of the subject of researches, controversies around subjective scope of researches and research methods. Starting from the first serious, inter-paradigmatic debate at the turn of nineteen fiftiies and sixties, conducted by representatives of the realistic trend and new behavioural approach to the last debate from nineteen eighties and nineties, there has been lasting discussion on ontological and epistemological problems of the international relations science. However, it does not discourage researchers from continuing careful and considerable reflection on the condition of discipline and its place in the Pantheon of Science, and for sure it does not discourage them from deepening theoretical discourse on explanative efficiency of various theoretical approaches and their methodological correctness in the process of getting to know, as well as explaining world complexity at the turn of the 20th and 21st century and new gauntlets thrown down by the 21st century.

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Bokus Barbara – Kosowska Ewa (eds.), Truth and Falsehood in Science and the Arts (Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2020)

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Rabiej S. J.

Verbum Vitae

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2021

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vol. 39

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issue 2

627-634

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Recenzja książki: Bokus Barbara – Kosowska Ewa (eds.), Truth and Falsehood in Science and the Arts (Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2020). Pp. 299. ISBN 978-83-235-4220-9

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Review of the book: Bokus Barbara – Kosowska Ewa (eds.), Truth and Falsehood in Science and the Arts (Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2020). Pp. 299. ISBN 978-83-235-4220-9

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Wkład galicyjskiej myśli statystycznej w powstanie GUS

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Łazowska B.

Wiadomości Statystyczne. The Polish Statistician

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2008

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issue nr 4

16-21

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W artykule omówiono wkład kilkunastu statystyków i ekonomistów galicyjskich żyjących na przełomie XIX i XX wieku w powstanie Głównego Urzędu Statystycznego zarówno w sferze organizacji struktur, jak i wykorzystywanych metodologii badań statystycznych. Przedstawiono twórców trzech głównych galicyjskich instytucji statystycznych: Miejskiego Biura Statystycznego we Lwowie, Krajowego Biura Statystycznego we Lwowie i Miejskiego Biura Statystycznego w Krakowie, na których pracach opierał się GUS, zwłaszcza w pierwszych latach po odzyskaniu niepodległości. Omówiono pokrótce wkład myśli teoretycznej i praktycznej galicyjskiego środowiska statystyków na kształt organizacyjny i metodologiczny badań Urzędu (abstrakt oryginalny)

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In the article the contribution of several Galician statisticians and economists living at the turn of the XIX and XX century into the CSO's inception has been discussed. Their contribution could be seen both in the sphere of structural organization and in the use of the statistical surveys methodology. There were presented the creators of three main Galician statistical institutions: Urban Statistical Office in Lwow, National Statistical Office in Lwow and Urban Statistical Office in Cracow. CSO was basing on their works, especially in the first years after gaining independence. The contribution of the theoretical and practical thought of Galician statisticians' environment on the organizational and methodological shape of surveys conducted in the office was shortly discussed.(original abstract)

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Greek Sixth-graders’ Mental Representations of the Mechanism of Vision

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Kokologiannaki V., Ravanis K.

The New Educational Review

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2013

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vol. 33

165-182

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The presented research concerns 11-year-old Greek students’ mental representations of the mechanisms of vision in conditions of natural and artificial light, as well as the persistence of those representations in terms of the two different states of lighting and the expression form of the provided answers (oral speech; sketches). The study consisted of two phases: test interviews and an interview process, where personal interviews were conducted with 30 participants. The results showed that the 11-year-old pupils employed the majority of the vision schemes that are included in the international bibliography; however, they tended to use the Sea of Light mechanism and a new scheme the researchers called Illumination of the Object. The schemes employed, however, are not consistent, either throughout the different states of lighting, or in the 3-D and 2-D world.

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Problematic of Technology and the Realms of Salvation in Heidegger's Philosophy

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Charley M. E.

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2009

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vol. 14

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issue 2

343-367

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The aim of this paper is the exploration of Heidegger's interpretation of the phenomenon of technology against the background of his new vision of reality. It can be said that in this context sin which was formerly moral and religious became in our age, as it were, technological. Because man has distanced himself from the Nature, he finds himself at the same time alienated and guilty, contemplating, like a child brazen in the brainlessness of what he has done and waiting in anguish the imminent punishment of a mother who does not forgive. Cum multis aliis, it is not only ugliness with which Heidegger reproaches technoscience but aggressiveness as well.

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Czy bać się przyrody?

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Poziomek U.

Edukacja Biologiczna i Środowiskowa

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2013

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issue 1

51-57

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Since the September 1st 2013 science teachers in secondary schools: liceum (comprehensive high school), and technikum (senior vocational high school) will introduce a new subject – the Science. This subject raises a lot of emotions in the pedagogical environment for several reasons: - Science Core Curriculum differs in its structure from the curricula of other subjects, - There is an obligation to implement only the curriculum learning outcomes not its content, - Science cannot be taken at the final external examination (matriculation), - There is a lack of interesting, innovative programs to teach this subject, - There is a continuous shortage of teaching tools for the implementation of Science subject. So should we be afraid of Science? No, we just have to understand it and make friends with it. In this paper you will find information about the recipients of this course, teachers qualified to teach Science, the number of hours devoted to teaching the subject as well as about the Science Core Curriculum and its possible interpretations and methodological guidance on its implementation and evaluation activities.

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Od 1 września 2013 r. nauczyciele przedmiotów przyrodniczych w szkołach ponadgimnazjalnych (liceach ogólnokształcących i technikach) rozpoczną realizację nowego przedmiotu – Przyrody. W artykule znajdziecie Państwo informacje o odbiorcach tego przedmiotu, kwalifikacjach nauczycieli do nauczania przyrody, liczbie godzin przeznaczonych na realizację tego przedmiotu oraz samej podstawie programowej i możliwych jej interpretacjach a także wskazówki metodyczne dotyczące realizacji zajęć i oceniania.

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Popularization and Autobiography: Towards an Accessible Theology

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Štofaník Š.

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Theologica

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2014

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vol. 4

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issue 1

67-83

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As research in natural sciences and humanities becomes ever more specialized and technical, and the sword of Damocles – publish or perish – hangs over the head of every scholar, academic publishing proliferates but at the cost of its public relevance. Theology is no exception here, but the consequences are potentially much more disastrous. One need not understand anything about quantum mechanics for PET scan to work, but when nobody outside of academia understands contemporary theology, it is hard to imagine how “faith seeking understanding” makes any sense in the absence of such understanding amongst the believers. In order for a work of theology to make sense, it should be accessible for a wider public and it has to be existentially relevant. The present essay offers a few suggestions how theologians might go about meeting these criteria.

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JACOB’s LADDER: Reason, Liberty and Science. The Contribution of Freemasonry to the Enlightenment

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Calance M.

Human and Social Studies

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2014

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vol. 3

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issue 2

111-136

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The theme of the article relies to the particular contribution of Freemasonry in the initiation and development of modernity, focusing on science, religion and politics. We know that, during the late Middle Ages, the European society was obedient to the „Church-Tradition-Monarchy” trinity; this status-quo collapsed due to the rational way of thinking; also the establishment of the universal human rights belongs to the Enlightenment, whose theses were supported mainly by Freemasons. Many researchers have proposed to show the extent to which Freemasonry helped to build the ideals of Enlightenment. The main conclusions that can be drawn, by analyzing their tracks, are: (1) All famous leaders of the Enlightenment had connections to Freemasonry; (2) The Enlightenment tenets overlap Freemasonry tenets, and, therefore they were supported and propagated by English, French, and American lodges; (3) Freemasonry progressively turned into a transnational vehicle for liberal thinking, disseminating the concepts of property and freedom in Europe and across the Atlantic.

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Science and Religion as Conceptual Schemes

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Marsonet M.

Academicus. International Scientific Journal

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2012

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issue 05

17-25

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It is claimed sometimes that science on the one hand, and metaphysics and religion on the other, are incompatible conceptual schemes, in the sense that their statements are not inter-translatable. Our view, instead, is that science and religion deal with fundamentally diverse aspects of human experience. This means that, when each field stays within its proper domain, they can get along without problems. We must deny the still popular opinion that science is the only instrument which allows us to know nature. And we must also question the idea that science has acquired the exclusive right to speak about nature by progressively expelling metaphysics from the field. In order to do this one should, however, reject the neo-positivist characterization of the relations among science, metaphysics, theology and religion.

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Ethics: A Guide for Science

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Lesomar A. A.

Language. Culture. Politics. International Journal

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2021

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vol. 1

161-169

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Ethics is crucial for science. This article aims to outline the relationship between ethics and science. Science as a profession cannot be separated from ethics. Scientists require not only rigorous methods and procedures in their work but also ethics to guide them. They are demanded as experts in their elds and as good persons. Ordinary people (non-scientic society) trust reliable scientists who have good competence, skill and personality. Hence, integration of science and ethics brings up epistemic trust, on the one hand among scientists and on the other hand among scientists and non-scientic society. There are various kinds of ethics that can be a guide for the scientic work of scientists. However, in this article I oer Karol Wojty“a's personalist ethics based on the philosophy of being as a guide for science.

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O empirycznych przesłankach pluralizmu bytowego

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Lenartowicz P.

Forum Philosophicum

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2006

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vol. 11

37-53

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The sciences, from their ancient beginnings, use a double way of investigation. One was applied to mineral and astronomical bodies, another to living ones. A ruling, tacit, common sense methodological or epistemological principle was this: The method of description should respect the inner essential properties of the object. For instance, neither the movements of the astronomical bodies, nor the behavior of the living bodies should be described in the scale of subatomic interactions. In modern times quite another methodological principle has been enthroned. The cosmos, astronomical, mineral and alive bodies altogether, have, allegedly, to be considered as a single natural whole, ruled by essentially the same set of principles. The properties of the mineral world are accepted as a universal model of descriptive concepts, and the explanatory concepts proper to the mineral world are accepted as a universal model of explanation in biology. So, up to now, the academic sciences have been dominated by the philosophical option of materialist monism, or panmaterialism. This option—we may call it antiteleologism and fragmentarism—has a profound impact on empirical research and the way biological phenomena are described. This strange, unnatural, arbitrarily imposed conceptual framework ignores the most fundamental biological dynamisms, and precludes our intellect from seeing the right questions and striving towards the right answers. Consequently it arbitrarily reduces the range of “scientifically acceptable” explanations. This antiteleological methodology of sciences, imposed on biological mind by philosophers, led to major change in the ideas of philosophers of nature. The physiology and anatomy of the fully developed living bodies has become their central object of study. Much less attention is paid to developmental processes such as biosynthesis, morphogenesis, embryogenesis, phenotypic adaptation and regeneration. The fully shaped structures (biomolecular, cytological or anatomical) and their functional properties are considered a hopeful basis of all the necessary explanations. For instance the structure of tile DNA molecule has become more important than the problem of its origin, and the structure of the brain more important than the developmental processes which lead to its construction. However, the enormous progress of biological sciences in spite of the widespread, dominating antiteleological and fragmentarist approach corroborates the very ancient, Aristotelian insight, which put the principal stress on the developmental aspect of life. Aristotle, and his more modern followers, was fascinated by the integrated and intrinsically heterogenous tendencies visible in the course of life. Today, we can say that at least eight such tendencies are universal, i.e. appear in every single form of life (starting with bacteria tip to the biology of man): (a) The tendency to select the proper kind of raw material and the proper kind of raw energy present in the environment. (b) The tendency to synthesize new, highly selective forms of chemical structures (biological material). (c) The tendency to utilize biological material in the process of building the nano-, micro-, and macro-machines. (d) The tendency for a relatively rapid, continuous production and replacement of all the elements of the functional structures of the body (metabolic turnover). (e) The tendency for a relatively rapid, continuous modification of the functional structures in a way which makes them more efficient within a changing environment (a tendency for phenotypic adaptation). (f) The tendency to repair and to regenerate the damaged elements of the functional structures of the body. (g) The tendency for multiplication, which means the production of such structures and the depots of the biological material as seeds, eggs, spores or buds. These structures, providing the environmental conditions are favorable, are starting points of new instances of the above described tendencies. (h) The tendency—possibly universal—to provide all the structures of the body with the “recognition marks” which help to eliminate all the, “alien” bodies and to recognize members of the own kind. These tendencies are not homogeneous. Homogeneous tendencies can be illustrated by the tendency of bodies to attract one another. This kind of tendency was the empirical source of such abstract concepts as gravitation, electrostatic force or magnetic force. Biological tendencies are heterogeneous and, at the same time, integrated. Human intellect is capable of recognizing the fundamental indivisibility (integration) of the set. A great number of observations and experiments have revealed and verified the fundamental indivisibility of the whole set of these tendencies. The concrete, bodily outcomes of these tendencies, however, are quite different in different families and orders of living things. Because of these differences the existence of different kinds of integrative principles was postulated. In this way a plurality of living substances was assumed.

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OBJECTIVITY IN SOCIAL SCIENCE

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Dansabo M. T., Bello M. M.

International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences

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2019

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vol. 10(2)

243-250

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The debate on the scientific status of the Social Sciences and their bid to achieve objectivity in their inquiries is an unending debate within and outside the Social Science family. The positivists are of the opinion that objectivity in Social Science is achievable and that scientific methods can be used in Social Science inquiry, just the same or similar way(s) the natural scientists do their scientific endeavor. To the positivists ‘value-free Social Science’ is possible. This position is however criticized even within the Social Sciences, let alone in the scientific world. All these debates centered on whether or not the Social Scientists are truly scientific in their quest for knowledge. No matter the outcome of the debate what is obvious is that there is a philosophical problem with scientific objectivity in general. Based on a historical review of the development of certain scientific theories, in his book, ‘the Structure of scientific revolutions’, a scientist and a historian Thomas Kuhn raised some philosophical objections to claims of the possibility of scientific understanding being truly objective. Against this backdrop, the paper seeks to unravel the varied theoretical debates on the subject. Objectivity, Science, Social Science, Social reality, Positivism, Value neutrality Debata na temat statusu naukowego nauk społecznych oraz ich dążenia do osiągnięcia obiektywizmu jest niekończącą się debatą w rodzinie nauk społecznych i poza nią. Pozytywiści są zdania, że obiektywizm w naukach społecznych jest osiągalny i że metody naukowe mogą być stosowane w badaniach społecznych, w taki sam lub podobny sposób, w jaki naukowcy przyrodniczy stosują je w swoich badaniach. Dla pozytywistów „społeczna nauka bez wartości” jest możliwa. To stanowisko jest jednak krytykowane nawet w naukach społecznych, nie mówiąc już o świecie naukowym. Wszystkie debaty koncentrowały się na tym, czy naukowcy społeczni są naprawdę naukowi w poszukiwaniu wiedzy. Bez względu na wynik debaty oczywiste jest, że istnieje filozoficzny problem z obiektywizmem naukowym w ogóle. Opierając się na historycznym przeglądzie rozwoju niektórych teorii naukowych, w swojej książce „Struktura rewolucji naukowych” naukowiec i historyk Thomas Kuhn podniósł pewne filozoficzne obiekcje wobec twierdzenia, że naukowe zrozumienie jest naprawdę obiektywne. Artykuł stara się rozwikłać różnorodne teoretyczne debaty na ten temat. obiektywizm, nauka, nauki społeczne, rzeczywistość społeczna, pozytywizm, neutralność wartości

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Lyuben Dilov’s Humorous Science Fiction: Literary Historical Contexts

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Borisova E.

International Journal of Slavic Studies Transgressive, Pragmatic and Speculative Horizons of Popular Literature and Culture

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2021

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vol. 1

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issue 3

29-40

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The report focuses on satirical prose of Lyuben Dilov as an important part of literaryhistorical processes in Bulgaria between 1960 and 1989. It also traces the development of the science fiction image in literature which uses humor and satire as a key to analyzing the clash between progressive science and backwardness in thinking and living; as a resource of expressing underdeveloped civilization – the inability of people to deal with new technology acceleration and their old understanding of progress. Lyuben Dilov`s prose also uses the unlimited possibilities of science fiction (scientific hypotheses, dreams, etc.) to reveal the metaphorical origins of the genre characteristic of the New Wave in sci-fi, the over-realization of the world in which we live. Turns the science fiction image into tool of social and cultural analysis.

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Pragmatism and Science

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Marsonet M.

Academicus. International Scientific Journal

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2013

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issue 08

101-109

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Logical empiricism gave rise to a powerful paradigm and it took some decades to overthrow it, even though it should be judged respectfully since, after all, philosophy of science and logic as we know them stemmed from that ground. The basic assumptions on which the paradigm of the “received view” rested are essentially the following. In the first place, verificationism seemed almost a truth of faith. Secondly, logical empiricists never offered good arguments in support of their thesis that assertive discourse must be preferred to more pragmatic forms of language. Thirdly, they too easily assumed that something like “objective truth” really exists. Last but certainly not least, the logical empiricists did not fully recognize the historical dimension of the scientific enterprise, which subsequently turned to be something different from the “universal science” they were talking about. In the paper it is argued that scientific realism (and the nature of scientific knowledge at large) is a theme where the originality of pragmatist positions clearly emerge. Nicholas Rescher, for example, claims - against any form of instrumentalism and many postmodern authors as well - that natural science can indeed validate a plausible commitment to the actual existence of its theoretical entities. Scientific conceptions aim at what really exists in the world, but only hit it imperfectly and “well off the mark”. What we can get is, at most, a rough consonance between our scientific ideas and reality itself. This means that the scientific knowledge at our disposal in any particular moment of the history of mankind must be held to be “putative”, while its relations to the truth (i.e. how things really stand in the world) should be conceived in terms of tentative and provisional estimation. Even the optimistic visions that see science as growingly approaching the “real” truth have, at this point, to be rejected on pragmatic grounds.

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A Scientist does not have to be Human?

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Szymborska D.

Zoon Politikon

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2020

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issue 11

353-366

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We, as humans appropriated science. A scientist is associated only with a human being. It doesn't have to stay that way. Non-protein scientists may appear sooner than expected. We will be challenged soon. A new legal and ethical code will be needed, and above all, a redefinition of the concepts of science and scientist seems to be urgent to formulate. The appearance of superintelligence and machines in science will mean the need to re-evaluate its operation. Let's start noticing the law of artificial intelligence (AI), to build inclusive science with machines.

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Pásmo elementárnych pokusov z elektriny a magnetizmu v mimoškolskej činnosti

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Šterbáková K., Belová E.

Humanum. Międzynarodowe Studia Społeczno-Humanistyczne

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2012

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issue 2(9)

363-371

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The article brings the view of the nontraditional activities out of the school in Science. In the article the authors compiles the work of teachers with many active learning and looks for their place in Science. One of them is the band (strips, zone) of elementary experiments designed from electricity and magnetism for children at primary schools. To increase motivation of small kids we prepared those strips to contain of ten experiments on electricity and magnetism. The set of simple experiments can help the teachers of elementary schools with children to realize these zones during extracurricular activities, which motivate children and show them the beauty of Science and Nature.The article brings the view of the nontraditional activities out of the school in Science. In the article the authors compiles the work of teachers with many active learning and looks for their place in Science. One of them is the band (strips, zone) of elementary experiments designed from electricity and magnetism for children at primary schools. To increase motivation of small kids we prepared those strips to contain of ten experiments on electricity and magnetism. The set of simple experiments can help the teachers of elementary schools with children to realize these zones during extracurricular activities, which motivate children and show them the beauty of Science and Nature.

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Wiedza statystyczna w ujęciu regułowym

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Stefanowicz B.

Wiadomości Statystyczne. The Polish Statistician

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2005

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issue nr 6

72-79

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Rozumnie wierzyć – rozumnie poznawać. Uniwersytet miejscem dialogu między nauką i wiarą

Ekologiczny postulat nauki dla zrównoważonego rozwoju

Beauty and Judgement in German Aesthetics

Change as the Subject of Research in the International Relations Science

Bokus Barbara – Kosowska Ewa (eds.), Truth and Falsehood in Science and the Arts (Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2020)

Wkład galicyjskiej myśli statystycznej w powstanie GUS

Greek Sixth-graders’ Mental Representations of the Mechanism of Vision

Problematic of Technology and the Realms of Salvation in Heidegger's Philosophy

Czy bać się przyrody?

Popularization and Autobiography: Towards an Accessible Theology

JACOB’s LADDER: Reason, Liberty and Science. The Contribution of Freemasonry to the Enlightenment

Science and Religion as Conceptual Schemes

Ethics: A Guide for Science

O empirycznych przesłankach pluralizmu bytowego

OBJECTIVITY IN SOCIAL SCIENCE

Lyuben Dilov’s Humorous Science Fiction: Literary Historical Contexts

Pragmatism and Science

A Scientist does not have to be Human?

Pásmo elementárnych pokusov z elektriny a magnetizmu v mimoškolskej činnosti

Wiedza statystyczna w ujęciu regułowym