Myths in Modern Science: The Hydrogen Bond and its Surroundings. Part 1. The Hydrogen-Bond-Myth

The "marketocentric" economic theory is now dominating in modern science (similar to Ptolemeus geocentric model of the Universe in the Middle Ages). But market economy is only one of different types of economic systems which became the main mode of resources allocation and motivation only in the end of the 19th century. Authors point to the necessity of the analysis of both pre-market and post-market relations. Transition towards the post-industrial neoeconomy requires "Copernical revolution" in economic theory, rejection of marketocentric orientation, which has become now not only less fruitful, but also dogmatically dangerous, leading to the conservation and reproduction of "market fundamentalism".

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Paleoecological study of bottom sediments of the lake Goluboye (Karelian Isthmus) according to the results of diatom analysis

Issues of modern algology (Вопросы современной альгологии) ◽

10.33624/2311-0147-2019-2(20)-265-269 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 265-269

Author(s):

Angelina E. Shatalova ◽

Uriy A. Kublitsky ◽

Dmitry A. Subetto ◽

Anna V. Ludikova ◽

Alar Rosentau ◽

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Keyword(s):

Baltic Sea ◽

Bottom Sediments ◽

Modern Science ◽

Karelian Isthmus ◽

The Baltic Sea ◽

Diatom Analysis ◽

North West ◽

The North ◽

Important Direction ◽

The Baltic

The study of paleogeography of lakes is an actual and important direction in modern science. As part of the study of lakes in the North-West of the Karelian Isthmus, this analysis will establish the dynamics of salinity of objects, which will allow to reconstruct changes in the level of the Baltic Sea in the Holocene.

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The Modern Aristotle: Michael Polanyi’s Search for Truth against Nihilism

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474412094.003.0010 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ronald Hoinski ◽

Ronald Polansky

Keyword(s):

Philosophy Of Science ◽

Modern Science ◽

Michael Polanyi ◽

Contemporary Philosophy ◽

The Face ◽

Human Desire ◽

The Mind ◽

Theoretical Science

David Hoinski and Ronald Polansky’s “The Modern Aristotle: Michael Polanyi’s Search for Truth against Nihilism” shows how the general tendencies of contemporary philosophy of science disclose a return to the Aristotelian emphasis on both the formation of dispositions to know and the role of the mind in theoretical science. Focusing on a comparison of Michael Polanyi and Aristotle, Hoinski and Polansky investigate to what degree Aristotelian thought retains its purchase on reality in the face of the changes wrought by modern science. Polanyi’s approach relies on several Aristotelian assumptions, including the naturalness of the human desire to know, the institutional and personal basis for the accumulation of knowledge, and the endorsement of realism against objectivism. Hoinski and Polansky emphasize the promise of Polanyi’s neo-Aristotelian framework, which argues that science is won through reflection on reality.

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Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474427814.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Modern Science ◽

Renaissance Literature ◽

Science And Literature ◽

Early Modern Science ◽

Dialectical Approach ◽

Science Technology ◽

The Subject ◽

Modern Perspective

Back in the late 1950s, C.P. Snow famously defined science negatively by separating it from what it was not, namely literature. Such polarization, however, creates more problems than it solves. By contrast, the two co-editors of the book have adopted a dialectical approach to the subject, and to the numerous readers who keep asking themselves “what is science?”, we provide an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby “science” actually includes such various intellectual pursuits as history, poetry, occultism, or philosophy. Each essay illustrates one particular aspect of Shakespeare’s works and links science with the promise of the spectacular. This volume aims at bridging the gap between Renaissance literature and early modern science, focusing as it does on a complex intellectual territory, situated at the point of juncture between humanism, natural magic and craftsmanship. We assume that science and literature constantly interacted with one another, making clear the fact that what we now call “literature” and what we choose to see as “science” were not clearly separated in Shakespeare’s days but rather part of a common intellectual territory.

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SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL AND LEGAL DISCOURSE OF ETHNIC AND NATIONAL CONFLICTS IN RUSSIA

Sociopolitical sciences ◽

10.33693/2223-0092-2020-10-4-53-64 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 53-64

Author(s):

ANDREY KURIUKIN ◽

Keyword(s):

Modern Science ◽

Legal Discourse ◽

Legal Regulation ◽

Ethnic Relations ◽

Soviet Society ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

The Russian Empire ◽

New Research ◽

The 19Th Century ◽

Developing System

The issue of ethnic relations and the conflicts generated by them is acutely relevant. Many branches and directions of modern science study it. Political science and jurisprudence are in the foreground of the modern study of ethno-national conflictology. Over a long period of research, they have developed several influential approaches that have become widespread. The growing complexity of the surrounding political and legal reality, the escalation of conflict in society, including ethno-national, require the search and application of new research paradigms. One of these is the analysis of political and legal discourse, which consists in studying the ways of how legal meanings, ideas, opinions and preferences, which are carried by legislators, are technically and meaningfully embodied in the texts of normative acts, subsequently forming a specific political and legal reality. Analyzing the domestic ethno-conflictological political and legal discourse, the author concludes that in the era of the Russian Empire, the legalization of ethno-national relations had little attention from legislators, the documents adopted in the 19th century carried widespread ideas of the legislative theory and existed unchanged until 1917. The basic paradigm of the Soviet political and legal regulation of ethno-national relations was the ideological dogmas of the theorists of Marxism-Leninism, within which, in Soviet society, such a phenomenon as an ethno-national conflict was denied, but, in fact, existed. At the present stage, after the acute events of the second half of the 1980s - 1990s, a serious system of political and legal regulation of ethno-national relations was developed. It bore fruit. Today, the domestic political and legal regulation of ethno-national relations has the character of a developing system designed to adequately respond to changes. The article can be used to improve the state social and legal policy of the Russian Federation. Also, the materials presented can provide the interest of students, graduate students, teachers, researchers and other people who are interested in the current social, political and legal development of Russia.

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