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(Mis)representations of Kant’s moral theory in applied ethics textbooks: emphasis on universalizability, absence of autonomy
This study examined representations of Kant’s theory of ethics in three applied ethics open textbooks. In two of the three textbooks, the concept of...
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Misconception in chemistry textbooks: a case study on the concept of quantum number, electronic configuration and review for teaching material
This article describes a descriptive-qualitative method for analyzing and reviewing several textbooks for high school as samples commonly used by...
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Quantum ontology without textbooks. Nor overlap**
In this paper, I critically assess two recent proposals for an interpretation-independent understanding of non-relativistic quantum mechanics: the...
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Textbooks of Philosophy in the Renaissance
The textbook is defined by its use in educational environments: in schools of different levels, in tutorials at home, or in universities. Any change...
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Mill’s Colonial-Racist Discourse in School Textbooks
James Mill was the first colonial to write a comprehensive history of India. Soon after its publication, he became a high-ranking employee of the...
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The Impacts of Animal Farming: A Critical Overview of Primary School Textbooks
Based on a sample of 46 Portuguese schoolbooks, this study aims to understand how factory-farmed animals are presented in such books across the...
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Textbooks of Philosophy in the Renaissance
The textbook is defined by its use in educational environments: in schools of different levels, in tutorials at home, or in universities. Any change...
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The Dialogue of Ingenuous Students: Early Printed Textbooks at Paris
Dialogues and the “dialogic” often hold a privileged place in accounts of the Renaissance and early modern learning. University textbooks therefore...
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Rethinking war history: the evolution of representations of Stalin and his policies during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 in Soviet and Russian History Textbooks
The associative chain between the personality of Joseph Stalin and his role in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 remains stable among the...
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Textbook Treatments of Fallacies
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1970 ) castigated what he called the “standard treatment” of fallacies in introductory textbooks of his day as debased,... -
Interaction, interpretation and representation: the construction and dissemination of chemical knowledge from a Peircean semiotics perspective
This paper proposes a theoretical approach to discuss the relations among reality, chemists’ interactions with it, and the resulting interpretation...
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Non-causal Explanations in the Humanities: Some Examples
The humanistic disciplines aim to offer explanations of a wide variety of phenomena. Philosophical theories of explanation have focused mostly on...
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Disparities and conceptual connections regarding the concept of substance in general chemistry textbook glossaries
The concept of substance is considered fundamental in order to understand chemistry and other related concepts, but many problems have been reported...
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Men, Events and Things in the Classical World: A Reflection on the Writing of Chinese Philosophy
In light of the inability of traditional textbooks of philosophical history to cover.
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Validity as a thick concept
This paper presents a novel position in the philosophy of logic: I argue that validity is a thick concept. Hence, I propose to consider validity in...
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An operational definition of biological development
Despite the undeniable epistemic progress of developmental biology from the second half of the twentieth century to the present day, there still is...
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Damaging Psychological Consequences of the Discourse
However politically correct a racist discourse may be, it has negative consequences on the psyche of the people toward whom it is directed. Research...
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“Resuscitating the Common Consent Argument for Theism”
The common consent argument claims that widespread belief in God is good evidence for God’s existence. Though taken seriously throughout the history...
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Overcoming Frege’s curse: heuristic reasoning as the basis for teaching philosophy of science to scientists
A lot of philosophy taught to science students consists of scientific methodology. But many philosophy of science textbooks have a fraught...