Organizing Scientific Research For War. The Administrative History of the Office of Scientific Research and Development.Irvin Stewart

Abstract Neal Miller did more to make psychology a science than any other investigator. His importance does not lie with any specific discoveries that he made, but rather with his way of doing scientific research, which involved pursuing a line of logic systematically through sequences of experiments, and paying attention to several alternate hypotheses that could answer each of the experimental questions addressed. His approach was a model of what has been called “Strong Inference” and that is characteristically used in the hard sciences. His biofeedback research is used as a case history of his method of approach.

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Plato as "Architect of Science"

Phronesis ◽

10.1163/156852898321119713 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 211-244 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Leonid Zhmud

Keyword(s):

Scientific Research ◽

Reliable Evidence ◽

History Of ◽

Pure Research

AbstractThe figure of the cordial host of the Academy, who invited the most gifted mathematicians and cultivated pure research, whose keen intellect was able if not to solve the particular problem then at least to show the method for its solution: this figure is quite familiar to students of Greek science. But was the Academy as such a center of scientific research, and did Plato really set for mathematicians and astronomers the problems they should study and methods they should use? Our sources tell about Plato's friendship or at least acquaintance with many brilliant mathematicians of his day (Theodorus, Archytas, Theaetetus), but they were never his pupils, rather vice versa - he learned much from them and actively used this knowledge in developing his philosophy. There is no reliable evidence that Eudoxus, Menaechmus, Dinostratus, Theudius, and others, whom many scholars unite into the group of so-called "Academic mathematicians," ever were his pupils or close associates. Our analysis of the relevant passages (Eratosthenes' Platonicus, Sosigenes ap. Simplicius, Proclus' Catalogue of geometers, and Philodemus' History of the Academy, etc.) shows that the very tendency of portraying Plato as the architect of science goes back to the early Academy and is born out of interpretations of his dialogues.

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Democratizing France: The Political and Administrative History of Decentralization.

The American Historical Review ◽

10.2307/2165584 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 97 (4) ◽

pp. 1226

Author(s):

Nathanael Greene ◽

Vivien A. Schmidt

Keyword(s):

The Political ◽

History Of ◽

Administrative History

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Reply to T.M. Simbirtseva and S.V. Volkov: Facts Against Fantasies

Problemy Dalnego Vostoka ◽

10.31857/s013128120017086-5 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 127

Author(s):

Bella Pak

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Russian Government ◽

New Information ◽

History Of ◽

The Impact ◽

Specific Contribution

This article provides an analysis of scientific research on the life and activities of the first Russian charge d’ affaires and consul general in Korea Karl I. Waeber, shows the specific contribution of scholars to the study of the professional biography of this outstanding diplomat. Despite the fact that the activity of K.I. Weber in Korea is partially reflected in the works of Boris D. Pak and Bella B. Pak on the history of Russo-Korean relations, as well as in several separate articles, the first special monographic work on this topic belongs to the pen of the author of this article. The monographic research focuses on a detailed coverage of the tasks, goals facing Waeber in Korea, the specific forms and conditions for their implementation, the impact he exerts on the course of the Russian government towards Korea; analysis of the most complex international circumstances, against the background of which he made certain decisions. This article contains answers to T.M. Simbirtseva and S.V. Volkov’s critical remarks regarding some of the information and photographic documents given in the work concerning K.I. Waeber and the accusations against the author of the article in connection with the publication in Germany in the summer of 2021 of Dr. S. Braezel's photobook "Pictures of the life of a diplomat between Europe and East Asia: Karl von Waeber (1841-1910)". The author of the article drew attention to some erroneous judgments in the article by T.M. Simbirtseva and S.V. Volkov, formed due to ignorance and bias, analyzed and refuted the most unfounded accusations, clarified the position regarding new information about K.I. Waeber.

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