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Planetary Systems. Exoplanets
This chapter is centered on the methods of chaos diagnosis based on the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and the dynamical maps on dense grids and their...
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The Division Between the Different Sciences on the Singularly and Emphatically Human and New Branches of Science
The establishment of the Humboldtian university model and the decisive role allotted to the humanities within it permitted an ongoing formation of...
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Planetary Health: Human Impacts on the Environment
Background: A stimulant Concept Note has been distributed among PHA members at the PHA Meeting of Edinburg (2018): It represents the network of...
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7. Habitats of Life
There are four principal habitats in which life may exist – the surface of a planetary body, its subsurface, its atmosphere and space. From our own...
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The Environmental Political Role of Counter-Hegemonic Environmental Ethics: Replacing Human Supremacist Ethics and Connecting Environmental Politics, Environmental Political Theory and Environmental Sciences
I have been teaching a course in the Philosophy Department on environmental ethicsethicsenvironmental ethics for 15 years and a course in a Political...
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Systems of Knowledge
This chapter considers Idealism’s encyclopedic knowledge-systems as a “general economy” that deconstructs any panlogical unification of philosophy,...
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‘To Witness Facts with the Eyes of Reason’: Herschel on Physical Astronomy and the Method of Residual Phenomena
One of the distinctive features of George Smith’s work on celestial mechanics is his emphasis on the role of what he calls “second-order phenomena”...
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Realism in Social Theory
Realism in social theory stems from the demand that all social sciences should be physically realistic about their subject matters. And their...
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Volcanism in the Solar System
Volcanic activity is the main process for heat-material exchange and circulation for differentiated planets. All terrestrial planets in the Solar...
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The eco-ethical contribution of Menico Torchio – a forgotten pioneer of European Bioethics
BackgroundIn 1926, Fritz Jahr described bio-ethics (German: bio-ethik) as “the assumption of moral obligations not only towards humans, but towards...
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Plate Tectonics: The Stabilizer of Earth’s Habitability
Earth is the only planet known to be habitable, and is also unique with its liquid water, and the operation of plate tectonics. The geological record...
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9. Signatures of Life and the Question of Detection
In this chapter we will elaborate on how evidence for life on other worlds can be sought, and if present, possibly detected. The best evidence for...
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Measurement, Quantitative Laws, and the Study of Growth in an Alternate Meta-Metre
The study of growth on variables such as intelligence and attainment tests from schooling, generally, does not follow closely the methods of the...
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Levels of Reality or Development? Hegel’s Realphilosophie and Philosophy of the Sciences
Hegel’s Realphilosophie is a philosophy of the sciences, concerning the appropriate and comprehensive understanding of specific things, principles...
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Ṭūsī’s Hayʾa
Hayʾa or the study of the configuration of the universe grew out of the engagement of the scientists of Islam with the astronomy they had inherited...
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A lunar time scale from the perspective of the Moon’s dynamic evolution
A geologic time scale is a chronological system that separates the geological strata of a planetary body into different units in temporal sequence...
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Physics of the Solar System Bodies
In this section we briefly bring the most essential results of the exploration of the bodies of the solar system. The sun itself is treated...
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Introduction: The Face and Interface
After this 2020 Pandemic, we should think, re-think, and re-organize our role and local, regional, and Global policies to determine whether we are...
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Notes for a History of Gas Geochemistry
During ancient times, human interest in naturally-occurring gases was religious, while it was scientific in the historical age and industrial in...
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Introduction
In the first part of this section, we briefly describe the history of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian...