The Reverend John Clayton, a Parson with a Scientific Mind: His Scientific Writings and Other Papers

1966 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 656
Author(s):  
Richard M. Jellison ◽  
Edmund Berkeley ◽  
Dorothy Smith Berkeley
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Mind

Feminist Criticisms of Metaphors in Bacon's Philosophy of Science

Philosophy ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
IDDO LANDAU
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Experimental Method ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Early Modern Science ◽  
Sexual Imagery ◽  
Sandra Harding ◽  
Witch Trials ◽  
Scientific Mind ◽  
Evelyn Fox Keller

Francis Bacon has received much attention from feminist philosophers of science. Many of their discussions revolve around his use of sexist, or supposedly sexist, metaphors. According to Sandra Harding, for example, ‘Bacon appealed to rape metaphors to persuade his audience that the experimental method is a good thing.’ Moreover, she claims that ‘when we realize that the mechanistic metaphors that organized early modern science themselves carried sexual meanings, it is clear that these meanings are central to the ways scientists conceptualize both the methods of inquiry and the models of nature’ (ibid.). Carolyn Merchant asserts that witch trials ‘influenced Bacon's philosophy and literary style’. And according to Evelyn Fox Keller, Bacon's explanation of the means by which science will endow humans with power ‘is given metaphorically — through his frequent and graphic use of sexual imagery.’ Fox Keller concludes that Bacon's theory is sexist, but in a more troubled and ambivalent way than Merchant and Harding believe it to be. Thus, she writes that ‘behind the overt insistence on the virility and masculinity of the scientific mind lies a covert assumption and acknowledgment of the dialectical, even hermaphroditic, nature of the “marriage between Mind and Nature.”‘ (p. 40; emphasis added). Likewise, ‘the aggressively male stance of Bacon's scientist could, and perhaps now should, be seen as driven by the need to deny what all scientists, including Bacon, privately have known, namely, that the scientific mind must be, on some level, a hermaphroditic mind.’ (p. 42).

scholarly journals Biogenesis and Function of Small Non-Coding RNAs Derived from Eukaryotic Ribosomal RNA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marine Lambert ◽  
Abderrahim Benmoussa ◽  
Patrick Provost
Keyword(s):  
Ribosomal Rna ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Biological Significance ◽  
Rna Seq ◽  
New Class ◽  
Scientific Mind ◽  
Non Coding Rnas ◽  
And Function ◽  
Rrna Sequences

The advent of RNA-sequencing (RNA-Seq) technologies has markedly improved our knowledge and expanded the compendium of small non-coding RNAs, most of which derive from the processing of longer RNA precursors. In this review article, we will discuss about the biogenesis and function of small non-coding RNAs derived from eukaryotic ribosomal RNA (rRNA), called rRNA fragments (rRFs), and their potential role(s) as regulator of gene expression. This relatively new class of ncRNAs remained poorly investigated and underappreciated until recently, due mainly to the a priori exclusion of rRNA sequences—because of their overabundance—from RNA-Seq datasets. The situation surrounding rRFs resembles that of microRNAs (miRNAs), which used to be readily discarded from further analyses, for more than five decades, because we could not believe that RNA of such a short length could bear biological significance. As if we had not yet learned our lesson not to restrain our investigative, scientific mind from challenging widely accepted beliefs or dogmas, and from looking for the hidden treasures in the most unexpected places.

scholarly journals Goodbye Juan José Sáenz (1960–2020): A Bright Scientific Mind, an Unusually Prolific Friend, and a Family Man

ACS Photonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 1078-1079
Author(s):  
Alvaro Blanco ◽  
F. Javier Garcı́a de Abajo ◽  
Antonio Garcı́a Martı́n ◽  
Luis M. Liz-Marzán ◽  
Cefe López
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Mind

Biological Teleology in Contemporary Science

1998 ◽  
pp. 309-316
Author(s):  
Spas Spassov
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Biological Science ◽  
Second Line ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
Biological Phenomena ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
Scientific Mind

Continuous controversies about how Aristotle's teleological biology relates to modern biological science address some widely debated questions in contemporary philosophy of science. Three main groups of objections made by contemporary science against Aristotle's biology can be identified: 1) Aristotle's biological teleology is too anthropomorphic; 2) the idea is tied too substance based; 3) Aristotle's final ends contradict the mechanistic spirit of modern science, which is looking for physical causes. There are two ways of dealing with these objections. The first consists in showing misinterpretations of Aristotle's thought that underlie these arguments. A second line of defense explores the idea that teleological concepts are not only incorporated and widely used in contemporary science, but that in fact biology does not have to renounce teleology in order to reconcile with the modern scientific mind. I suggests that a complete understanding of complex biological phenomena can only be achieved by combining different approaches to this issue.

Some Changes in the Scientific Mind

1939 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-61
Author(s):  
J.H. Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Mind

The scientific mind at work (and play)

JAMA ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 246 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-29
Author(s):  
H. S. Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Mind

scholarly journals Charles Darwin and the scientific mind

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID STACK
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
Scientific Mind ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Erasmus Darwin ◽  
William Whewell

AbstractAlthough often presented as an essential, ahistorical or innate psychological entity, the notion of a ‘scientific mind’ is ripe for historical analysis. The growing historical interest in the self-fashioning of masculine identities, and more particularly the self-fashioning of the nineteenth-century scientist, has opened up a space in which to probe what was understood by someone being said to possess a ‘scientific mind’. This task is made all the more urgent by the recently revived interest of some psychologists in the concept and the highly gendered and culturally conditioned understanding of the scientific mind displayed in some contemporary debates. This article contributes to that task, and fills a rare gap in Darwin studies by making the first detailed exploration of Charles Darwin's understanding of the scientific mind, as revealed in the psychological self-analysis he undertook in his ‘Recollections of the development of my mind and character’ (1876), and supplemented in hisLife of Erasmus Darwin(1879). Drawing upon a broad range of Darwin's published and unpublished works, this article argues that Darwin's understanding of the scientific mind was rooted in his earliest notebooks, and was far more central to his thought than is usually acknowledged. The article further delineates the differences between Darwin's understanding and that of his half-cousin Francis Galton, situates his understanding in relation to his reading of William Whewell and Auguste Comte, and considers what Darwin's view of the scientific mind tells us about his perspective on questions of religion and gender. Throughout, the article seeks to show that the ‘scientific mind’ is always an agglomeration of historically specific prejudices and presumptions, and concludes that this study of Darwin points to the need for a similarly historical approach to the question of the scientific mind today.

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