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AGR Agriculture --- France --- agriculture --- scientific progress

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"Neurocriminology's focus on the brain and reliance on cutting-edge technologies have helped to rewrite its history as a science used to support eugenics, racism, and genocide, and reclaim the program's credibility. However, as Oliver Rollins carefully elucidates, many questions remain about how this new rendition of an old scientific tradition will address accusations of bias and discrimination that have surrounded it since its inception. Rollins argues that because controversy has always been part of its story it is now being leveraged by scientists to justify new developments, and thus continued use of, the research"--

Violence --- Neurosciences --- Physiological aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Social aspects. --- antisocial behavior. --- biosocial. --- determinism. --- inequality. --- nature/nature. --- neuro-prediction. --- neuroimaging. --- scientific progress. --- scientific racism. --- violent brain.

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This Open Access book discusses the progress of science and the transfer of scientific knowledge to technological application. It also identifies the factors necessary to achieve this progress. Based on a case study of the physical chemist Fritz Haber's discovery of ammonia synthesis between 1903 and 1909, the book places Haber's work in historical and scientific (physicochemical) context. The scientific developments of the preceding century are framed in a way that emphasizes the confluence of knowledge needed for Haber's success. Against this background, Haber's work is presented in detail along with the indispensable contributions of his colleague, the physical chemist, Walter Nernst, and their assistants. The detailed accounts of scientific advancement remind us of the physical basis on which our scientific theories and ideas are built. Without this reminder we often forget how complex, and how beautiful achievements in science can be.

History of science --- Physical chemistry --- Fritz Haber --- Ammonia Synthesis --- Scientific Discovery --- Technological Innovation --- Physical Chemistry --- Theory of Scientific Progress --- The challenge of technical Implementation

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In today's unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers--and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind Spot reveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by embracing science's inherent ambiguities and paradoxes can we truly appreciate its beauty and harness its potential. Crackling with insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas, from climate change to the global financial meltdown, this book challenges our most sacredly held beliefs about science, technology, and progress. At the same time, it shows how the secret to better science can be found where we least expect it--in the uncertain, the ambiguous, and the inevitably unpredictable. William Byers explains why the subjective element in scientific inquiry is in fact what makes it so dynamic, and deftly balances the need for certainty and rigor in science with the equally important need for creativity, freedom, and downright wonder. Drawing on an array of fascinating examples--from Wall Street's overreliance on algorithms to provide certainty in uncertain markets, to undecidable problems in mathematics and computer science, to Georg Cantor's paradoxical but true assertion about infinity--Byers demonstrates how we can and must learn from the existence of blind spots in our scientific and mathematical understanding. The Blind Spot offers an entirely new way of thinking about science, one that highlights its strengths and limitations, its unrealized promise, and, above all, its unavoidable ambiguity. It also points to a more sophisticated approach to the most intractable problems of our time.

Uncertainty (Information theory) --- Science --- Measure of uncertainty (Information theory) --- Shannon's measure of uncertainty --- System uncertainty --- Information measurement --- Probabilities --- Questions and answers --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Social aspects. --- Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences). --- Algorithm. --- Ambiguity. --- Analogy. --- Approximation. --- Axiom. --- Axiomatic system. --- Basic research. --- Big O notation. --- Calculation. --- Certainty. --- Chaos theory. --- Circumference. --- Computation. --- Concept. --- Conjecture. --- Consciousness. --- Consistency. --- Contingency (philosophy). --- Continuous function. --- Continuum hypothesis. --- Contradiction. --- Counting. --- David Bohm. --- Dynamism (metaphysics). --- Emergence. --- Euclidean geometry. --- Explanation. --- Feeling. --- Fermat's Last Theorem. --- Geometry. --- Gestalt psychology. --- Gregory Chaitin. --- Gödel's incompleteness theorems. --- Human behavior. --- Human intelligence. --- Hypothesis. --- Ideology. --- Inference. --- Integer. --- Irrational number. --- Learning. --- Logic. --- Logical reasoning. --- Mathematician. --- Mathematics. --- Measurement. --- Methodology. --- Modernity. --- Molecule. --- Natural number. --- Nature. --- Paradigm shift. --- Paradox. --- Participant. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of mathematics. --- Philosophy of science. --- Philosophy. --- Platonism. --- Prediction. --- Principle. --- Probability. --- Pythagoreanism. --- Qualitative property. --- Quantification (science). --- Quantity. --- Quantum mechanics. --- Randomness. --- Rational number. --- Rationality. --- Real number. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Reductionism. --- Relationship between religion and science. --- Result. --- Science. --- Scientific method. --- Scientific progress. --- Scientific theory. --- Scientist. --- Self-reference. --- Set theory. --- Special case. --- Subatomic particle. --- Subjectivity. --- Suggestion. --- Technology. --- The Philosopher. --- Theorem. --- Theoretical physics. --- Theory of everything. --- Theory. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- Thought. --- Uncertainty. --- Universality (philosophy). --- Writing. --- Sociology of knowledge

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Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyAre doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when so many of our political leaders don't? Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength—and the greatest reason we can trust it. Tracing the history and philosophy of science from the late nineteenth century to today, this timely and provocative book features a new preface by Oreskes and critical responses by climate experts Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch, political scientist Jon Krosnick, philosopher of science Marc Lange, and science historian Susan Lindee, as well as a foreword by political theorist Stephen Macedo.

Science --- SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Adverse effect. --- Adviser. --- American Association for the Advancement of Science. --- Americans. --- Amgen. --- Authoritarianism. --- Biologist. --- Biomedicine. --- Blind experiment. --- Bruno Latour. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Climate change. --- Climatology. --- Continental drift. --- Covid-19. --- Criticism. --- Decision-making. --- Dental floss. --- Distrust. --- Empirical evidence. --- Empiricism. --- Environmental impact assessment. --- Environmentalist. --- Epistemology. --- Eugenics. --- Experiment. --- Explanation. --- Fallacy. --- Funding of science. --- Funding. --- Geneticist. --- Global warming. --- Governance. --- Graduate school. --- Greenhouse gas. --- Helen Longino. --- History and philosophy of science. --- Ideology. --- Institution. --- Karl Popper. --- Lecture. --- Logical positivism. --- Ludwik Fleck. --- Merchants of Doubt. --- Methodology. --- Misuse of statistics. --- Morality. --- Naomi Oreskes. --- National Science Foundation. --- Ottmar Edenhofer. --- Paradigm shift. --- Pascal's Wager. --- Peer review. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of science. --- Physician. --- Physicist. --- Political psychology. --- Political science. --- Politics. --- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. --- Princeton University. --- Psychology. --- Public health. --- Public policy. --- Publication. --- Rationality. --- Reason. --- Replication crisis. --- Reproducibility. --- Result. --- Sandra Harding. --- Science studies. --- Science, technology and society. --- Science. --- Scientific community. --- Scientific consensus. --- Scientific evidence. --- Scientific method. --- Scientific opinion on climate change. --- Scientific progress. --- Scientific revolution. --- Scientific theory. --- Scientist. --- Skepticism. --- Social science. --- Sociology. --- Statistical significance. --- Suggestion. --- Sunburn. --- Sunscreen. --- Symptom. --- Tax. --- Technology. --- Theory. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- Thought. --- Vaccination. --- Vetting.