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1. Wired help for the farm: Individual electric generating sets for farms, 1880-1930

2. A change of state: The political cultures of technical practice at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 1930-1945

3. Natural science and philosophical hermeneutics: An exploration of understanding in the thought of Werner Heisenberg and Hans-Georg Gadamer

4. History of museums and databases: The development and implementation of a museum collection information system

5. Studies in French cultural and intellectual history

6. Versatility, creative products, and the personality correlates of eminent creators

7. Rediscovering criminal responsibility through behavioral genetics

8. The generative paradigm in Old Babylonian divination

9. Absence and alterity: <i>Poiesis</i> in seventeenth-century British literature and science

10. The “Siddhāntasundara” of Jñānarāja: A critical edition of select chapters with English translation and commentary

11. Moving machines: The experience of new technologies from widescreen to digital cinema

12. Researching North America: Sir Humphrey Gilbert's 1583 Expedition and a Reexamination of Early Modern English Colonization in the North Atlantic World

13. A Poisonous Sky: Scientific Research and International Diplomacy on Acid Rain

14. Poetry and Chemistry, 1770-1830: Mingling Exploded Systems

15. Far Corners of the Earth: A Media History of Logistics

16. Tracing a Technological God: A Psychoanalytic Study of Google and the Global Ramifications of its Media Proliferation

17. The Role of Interactivity in the Artistic Process of Web-Based Art: Case Studies of the Digital Media Art Pioneers' Practices and Studio Teaching

18. Damn the Torpedoes: The History of Science and Undersea Warfare in World War II

19. Evolutionary Aestheticism: Scientific Optimism and Cultural Progress, 1850-1913

20. The Family Circuit: Gender, Games, and Domestic Computing Culture, 1945-1990

21. Distant Electric Vision: Cultural Representations of Television From "Edison's Telephonoscope" to the Electronic Screen

22. Discovering Science for Women: The Life of Ellen Swallow Richards, 1842-1911

23. A Doctor on the Clock: Hourly Timekeeping and Galen's Scientific Method

24. Scheduled Lightpath Switching in optical networks

25. An Exploration of Diversity and Inclusion in Introductory Physics

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Document 1 of 25

Wired help for the farm: Individual electric generating sets for farms, 1880-1930

Author: Lee, Carol Anne

Publication info: The Pennsylvania State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1989. 9018242.

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Abstract: This study argues that rural electrification in the United States began before the 1920s and that its scope extended beyond the technical range of central station electricity and beyond the political range of public power, as illustrated by the development of self-contained electrical generating plants for farms. After twenty years of discussion about electricity in agriculture, manufacturers began marketing standardized plants after 1910; sales peaked between 1916 and 1921. By 1929 half of all the electrified farms in the country used homemade electricity. As a technology offering a pattern of energy use that was ultimately rejected by society, individual lighting plants present a

fruitful avenue for studying rural electrification, for the circumstances surrounding their construction, dissemination, and use mirrored broader national themes and trends in the production and use of electricity. The triple themes of profit, convenience, and efficiency pervaded promotion of lighting sets. Agricultural and electrical engineers saw them as tools for agrarian reform and the modernization of rural life. Utilities saw in them devices that reduced pressure to provide immediate rural service and prepared the way for future extension of rural lines. As a small power supply, they had their most dramatic effect upon household work and the lives of farm women, and farm families used them to help improve living and production standards. The story of individual lighting sets faltered in the late 1920s. As electrical generating and distributing technology improved and the electrical generating business consolidated, an energy vision based on the large-scale generation and distribution of electricity seized the national imagination. Economic hard times for farmers restricted purchases in the 1920s, and abruptly halted them at the onset of the Depression in 1929. The advent of national political battles over control of the nation's electrical generating facilities in the 1930s effectively ended interest in a rural electrical system based upon small-scale, individually owned and operated generating facilities.

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Subject: American history; American studies; Energy; Science history

Classification: 0337: American history; 0323: American studies; 0791: Energy; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Applied sciences

Title: Wired help for the farm: Individual electric generating sets for farms, 1880-1930

Number of pages: 275

Publication year: 1989

Degree date: 1989

School code: 0176

Source: DAI-A 51/02, Dissertation Abstracts International

Place of publication: Ann Arbor

Country of publication: United States

Advisor: McMurry, Sally A.

University/institution: The Pennsylvania State University

University location: United States -- Pennsylvania

Degree: Ph.D.

Source type: Dissertations & Theses

Language: English

Document type: Dissertation/Thesis

Dissertation/thesis number: 9018242

ProQuest document ID: 303718391

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Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

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Document 2 of 25

A change of state: The political cultures of technical practice at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 1930-1945

Author: Dennis, Michael Aaron

Publication info: The Johns Hopkins University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1991. 9113654.


Abstract: This is a dissertation about two laboratories--the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory--before, during, and immediately after World War II. As such, this work is concerned with one of the fundamental political transformations to occur in the twentieth century--the emergence of the military as the dominant patron of American university-based physical science and technology during the postwar era. Rather than discuss the traditional historiographic concerns embedded in the reigning dualism of Big Science/little science, this dissertation uses the histories of these two laboratories to better understand what actually happened to American science and technology during WWII. Through a close analysis of the prewar histories of the laboratories, it is possible to identify the major role played by different conceptions of the marketplace in the political economy of science during the 1930s. In particular, we can see the dramatic differences in technical practice which resulted from either corporate or philanthropic patronage. By paying attention to the prewar context, this work offers a novel interpretation of the organization of science during the war, one that is independent of the histories offered by practitioners. At the same time, this dissertation demonstrates that a new kind of nation-state emerged from within these laboratories during the war. It was a state in which the distinction between civilian and military no longer existed. During the postwar era, each laboratory would reconstruct the civilian in their own image.

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Subject: Science history; American history; Education history

Classification: 0585: Science history; 0337: American history; 0520: Education history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Education Maryland Massachusetts

Title: A change of state: The political cultures of technical practice at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 1930-1945



Degree date: 1991

School code: 0098




University/institution: The Johns Hopkins University

University location: United States -- Maryland

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 3 of 25

Natural science and philosophical hermeneutics: An exploration of understanding in the thought of Werner Heisenberg and Hans-Georg Gadamer

Author: Smith, Lisa Madeline

Publication info: University of Manitoba (Canada), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1997. NQ23667.


Abstract: The late modern view that science and the humanities, including the study of religion, occupy separate territories and pursue different aims persists to this day. The purpose of this work is to add to the growing discussion which seeks to reconnect the natural sciences and the humanities through an exploration of the theories of understanding offered by physicist Werner Heisenberg and philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer. As it is guided by general principles of authentic dialogue, this exploration unfolds important correspondences between those theories with regard to human nature and the nature of the world around us. The significance of this rests on the fact that their respective theories have different points of origin: Heisenberg's theory has its basis in the world of science, and Gadamer's theory isolates itself from any connection to that world. The investigation concludes that the natural sciences and the human sciences share essentially the same scope: both lead to an understanding of that reality and truth which underlies all differentiation of human interest.

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Subject: Religion; Philosophy; Science history

Classification: 0322: Religion; 0322: Philosophy; 0422: Philosophy; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences Gadamer, Hans Georg Heisenberg, Werner

Title: Natural science and philosophical hermeneutics: An exploration of understanding in the thought of Werner Heisenberg and Hans-Georg Gadamer



Degree date: 1997

School code: 0303




ISBN: 9780612236677, 0612236676

Advisor: Klostermaier, Klaus K.

University/institution: University of Manitoba (Canada)

University location: Canada

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English


Dissertation/thesis number: NQ23667





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Document 4 of 25

History of museums and databases: The development and implementation of a museum collection information system

Author: Solomon, Geraldine

Publication info: American University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1998. 1388999.


Abstract: The purpose of this study was to show how a museum collection information system could benefit future planning and preparation of tracking collections and be beneficial and useful to museum staff for the purpose of exhibits, labeling, off-site loan and collection storage in a museum. The history of museums and databases is researched. A history of collection information systems in museums and the progression is viewed. A Collection Information System (CIS) of a museum is reviewed. The methodology that was used for CIS, data dictionary, and human resource architecture are all reviewed to show the progression and the developmental stages of the system. The human-resource architecture was essential in researching the staff functions pertaining to the collections that would be computerized. A survey was conducted to determine the museum's general computer use with specific interest in computer use for the collections. The survey gave statistical analysis of the number of collections entered into a online system, either the museum's Collection Information System or a stand-alone independent system. The documentation of computer use for collection management and for exhibits was surveyed. The results of the survey included documenting exhibits on/off site that require a large a number of staff members. Reports are

quite numerous and standard in form. Recommendations included the use of computers for repetitive tasks such as documentation of collections and reports. Planning a system with clear objectives and strong leadership is critical to success.

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collection+information+system&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/

Subject: Science history; Information Systems; Educational software; Computer science

Classification: 0585: Science history; 0723: Information Systems; 0710: Educational software; 0984: Computer science

Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts Social sciences Education Applied sciences

Title: History of museums and databases: The development and implementation of a museum collection information system



Degree date: 1998

School code: 0008

Source: MAI 36/04M, Masters Abstracts International



ISBN: 9780591790528, 0591790521

Advisor: McGuire, Eugene

University/institution: American University

University location: United States -- District of Columbia

Degree: M.S.


Language: English







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Document 5 of 25

Studies in French cultural and intellectual history

Author: Bernard, Lauren S.

Publication info: Rice University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1998. 1389066.


Abstract: Four topics in the cultural and intellectual history of France are presented. The first is a comparative study examining the relationship between seventeenth-century philosophy and literature. It argues that elements of scientific rationalism found their way into contemporary literature, as evidenced in the work of Moliere. The second essay examines the writings of Hippolyte Taine and of Gustave Le Bon. The paper argues that the synthesis of their ideas and the popularity of their writings helped to transform the nineteenth-century French passion for "scientificity" into an obsession with race. The third study explores early

twentieth-century French perceptions of race and demonstrates how media images of colonial peoples profoundly influenced the way in which ordinary French citizens understood race and difference. The fourth and final paper examines the importance of the department store in French women's lives during the interwar period and argues that it served as the crucial link between their public and private spheres.

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Subject: European history; Romance literature; Theater; Cultural anthropology; Minority & ethnic groups; Sociology

Classification: 0335: European history; 0313: Romance literature; 0465: Theater; 0326: Cultural anthropology; 0631: Minority & ethnic groups; 0631: Sociology

Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts Social sciences Language, literature and linguistics Gustave Le Bon Hippolyte Taine Moliere department store race

Title: Studies in French cultural and intellectual history



Degree date: 1998

School code: 0187

Source: MAI 36/05M, Masters Abstracts International



ISBN: 059180302X, 9780591803020

Advisor: Sherman, Daniel J.

University/institution: Rice University

University location: United States -- Texas

Degree: M.A.


Language: English







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Document 6 of 25

Versatility, creative products, and the personality correlates of eminent creators

Author: Cassandro, Vincent J.

Publication info: University of California, Davis, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2001. 3018983.


Abstract: Individuals are given the label “versatile” when their creative achievements extend beyond their most commonly cited domain—achievements indicative of remarkable and varied interests and abilities (e.g., Aristotle, Darwin, Da Vinci, Goethe). The present work examines the rarely studied construct of versatility as well as the versatile genius by exploring the relationship between eminent individuals (i.e., personality characteristics, life achievements, etc.) and the richness of the products that they produce (i.e., topical or thematic diversity). I begin the present work with (a) a discussion of various definitions and facets of versatility as well as its measurement, (b) a review of the relevant theory as well as the empirical and anecdotal

evidence linking versatility to aspects of the creative product, and (c) a review of possible personality correlates of versatility. Next, I introduce and detail the present historiometric study conducted using a sample of 70 eminent scientists, creative writers, philosophers, and scholars from the history of Western Civilization. As predicted, data analyses reveal that versatile individuals produce thematically richer works than their non-versatile counterparts. Specifically, versatility appears to raise an individual's thematic “ceiling,” allowing for works of maximal thematic diversity. Assuming that the richest work in an individual's repertoire represents the peak of his or her range of creativity, versatility might be a crucial ingredient in the production of an individual's magnum opus. Contrary to expectations, however, the personality characteristic of Openness did not emerge as the dominant trait in the versatile individual's personality profile. A broad but weak pattern of personality characteristics did emerge that describes the versatile individual as generally unconscientious, unable to deal with ego-related threats, rather narcissistic, and not particularly well adjusted. Also, analyses reveal that an Open orientation does positively predict the topical diversity of an individual's works. Specifically, Openness positively predicts the overall diversity of an individual's body of work. Finally, exploratory analyses reveal that scientists, unlike individuals in other professions, appear to become more psychologically erratic with increasing levels of versatility. The limitations, implications, and directions for future versatility research are discussed.

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Subject: Personality; History; Art History; Biographies; Science history; Philosophy

Classification: 0625: Personality; 0578: History; 0377: Art History; 0304: Biographies; 0585: Science history; 0422: Philosophy

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Communication and the arts Social sciences Psychology Language, literature and linguistics Creative products Eminent creators Personality Versatility

Title: Versatility, creative products, and the personality correlates of eminent creators



Degree date: 2001

School code: 0029

Source: DAI-B 62/07, Dissertation Abstracts International



ISBN: 9780493306506, 0493306501

Advisor: Simonton, Dean Keith

University/institution: University of California, Davis

University location: United States -- California

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 7 of 25

Rediscovering criminal responsibility through behavioral genetics

Author: Farahany, Nita A.

Publication info: Duke University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2006. 3267799.


Abstract: Scientific advances in behavioral genetics research have significantly impacted societal understanding of the factors influencing human behavior. Quickly outpacing the scientific progress, however, has been the introduction of behavioral genetics into criminal cases. This dissertation questions whether the scientific methods employed in behavioral genetics provide a sufficient basis for making individual claims about the causes of human behavior, and alternately whether criminal law theory leaves room for the introduction of behavioral genetics to negate criminal responsibility. Chapters one surveys the scientific claims advanced in behavioral genetics with respect to violence, aggression, antisocial personality disorder, and drug and alcohol abuse. Chapters two, three, and four critique the methods employed in behavioral genetics research—heritability, candidate gene, and QTL linkage studies. Conceptual and practical examples reveal the error of relying on behavioral genetics to inform the causes of individual behavior. Chapters five through eight then explore a second but important related question: whether, irrespective of the scientific merit of the claims, criminal responsibility may be informed by behavioral genetics evidence? To contextualize this question, chapter five discusses the use of behavioral genetics in criminal cases—including claims that a defendant acted involuntarily, lacked the requisite mens rea,

satisfied the mental defect element of an insanity defense, or was entitled to differential sentencing. The case review reveals that courts have rejected the majority of these claims, but primarily because of the inadequacy of the science, thereby leaving open the door for the introduction of such evidence as the science further develops. Chapters six through eight then demonstrate how criminal responsibility theory clashes with defenses based on behavioral genetics. The conclusion that behavioral genetics and criminal responsibility theory cannot be reconciled logically follows from the inconsistency between behavioral genetics and liability theory, and the inconsistency between behavioral genetics claims and the reasonable person standard. The dissertation concludes that because liability, justifications, and excuses do not turn on individual infirmities, behavioral genetics should not inform criminal responsibility.

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%26+theses&rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Farahany%2C+Nita+A.&rft.aulast=Farahany&rft.aufirst=Nita&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=9780549072256&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Rediscovering+criminal+responsibility+through+behavioral+genetics&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/

Subject: Genetics; Philosophy; Science history

Classification: 0369: Genetics; 0422: Philosophy; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences Biological sciences Behavioral genetics Criminal responsibility Philosophy of biology

Title: Rediscovering criminal responsibility through behavioral genetics



Degree date: 2006

School code: 0066




ISBN: 9780549072256

Advisor: Rosenberg, Alexander

University/institution: Duke University

University location: United States -- North Carolina

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 8 of 25

The generative paradigm in Old Babylonian divination

Author: Winitzer, Abraham

Publication info: Harvard University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2006. 3217931.


Abstract: This dissertation explores the working of the organizational apparatus evinced in the Old Babylonian Mesopotamian divination collections from the divinatory technique known as extispicy (the examination of a sacrificed

sheep's exta, or entrails: in the main the liver, but also the gallbladder, spleen, intestines, lungs, and more). The manner by which the organizational apparatus of the Old Babylonian divination literature is employed in the creation of the omen collections is termed in the present study the "Generative Paradigm," since it is argued that the diviner-scholars responsible for these collections became aware of the structure of a new system---a paradigm---by which they could generate new omens on the basis of preexisting materials as well as a number of organizational assumptions. This "Generative Paradigm" revolutionized the very notion of divination in Mesopotamia, turning an originally empirically based act of limited scope into a full-scale scholarly activity, with analytic, and perhaps even scientific, ideals. As we meet it in the collections, Mesopotamian divination is a sophisticated deductively based system for the assembly and gathering of information that would, or at least theoretically could be, all-encompassing. The analysis of the organizational apparatus is comprised of two main parts. The first (chapter 2) describes ordering mechanisms encountered within individual omens, focusing on exceptions to the standard casuistic sentence presented by complex protases and especially apodoses, those characterized by alternative hypothetical or interpretive possibilities. Alternation on this inner-omen level is demonstrated to be reflective of the broader generative undertaking. The second part (chapters 3-5) investigates the organizational techniques among units of individual omens, described as gradation paradigms. Two basic principles, viz., opposition and pointillism, are identified as the ordering mechanisms of gradation paradigms. It is demonstrated how according to these principles and various organizational groupings and sequences the diviner-scholar created portions of the gradation paradigms, generated others, and, in short, made up the bulk of the material in the omen collections.

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Subject: Ancient languages; Ancient civilizations; Science history

Classification: 0289: Ancient languages; 0579: Ancient civilizations; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Language, literature and linguistics Divination Exstispicy Generative paradigm Mesopotamia Old Babylonian

Title: The generative paradigm in Old Babylonian divination



Degree date: 2006

School code: 0084




ISBN: 9780542694561

Advisor: Steinkeller, Piotr

University/institution: Harvard University

University location: United States -- Massachusetts

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 9 of 25

Absence and alterity: <i>Poiesis</i> in seventeenth-century British literature and science

Author: Clody, Michael C.

Publication info: State University of New York at Buffalo, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2008. 3342092.


Abstract: "Absence and Alterity: Poiesis in Seventeenth-Century British Literature and Science" explores the ways in which Early Modern literary and scientific texts strive to bring forth that which exceeds the limits of knowledge and representation. I argue that in the revival of an ancient debate between philosophy and poetry over the space of the reflective subject, Early Modern poetics--broadly construed to also include the writing of the new science--re-establishes the possibility of a creative mimesis that does not rely solely on the presence of the subject or the empirical field. This alternative mode of poiesis , which finds its precursor in the inspired rhapsode depicted by Plato, is a symptom of neither the poet's ignorance nor a divine influence; instead, it finds its source in language's immanent force of alterity. While the "imaginative paradigm," named for the faculty of phantasia introduced by Aristotle, guarantees that the subject-matter of thought and therefore language is necessarily derived from the empirical world, the possibility of the "inspired" poet who responds to a heterogeneous voice beyond the reflective subject haunts not only literary critical history and its contemporaneous verse but also the proto-scientific texts that help ground

empiricism's epistemology. The common function ascribed to this alterity thus elucidates the rich relationship between Poetics and the History of Science by accounting for the similar ways in which both strive to experience that which is not accessible through re-presentation. Furthermore, I argue that historicizing poiesis within the context of Early Modern England also provides a critical countermeasure to the limitations of lyric subjectivity and social constructivism.

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Subject: Science history; British and Irish literature

Classification: 0585: Science history; 0593: British and Irish literature

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Language, literature and linguistics Bacon, Francis Milton, John Poetics Poiesis Science Shakespeare, William

Title: Absence and alterity: Poiesis in seventeenth-century British literature and science



Degree date: 2008

School code: 0656




ISBN: 9780549990529

Advisor: Stott, Andrew Bono, James

Committee member: Stevens, Scott M.

University/institution: State University of New York at Buffalo

Department: English

University location: United States -- New York

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 10 of 25

The “Siddhāntasundara” of Jñānarāja: A critical edition of select chapters with English translation and commentary

Author: Knudsen, Toke Lindegaard

Publication info: Brown University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2008. 3335667.


Abstract: The Siddhāntasundara is a comprehensive treatise on astronomy written in Sanskrit by Jñānarāja in the beginning of the sixteenth century CE in what is now the state of Maharashtra in

India. In addition to expounding the formulae and algorithms of classical Indian astronomy as well as the theory behind them, Jñānarāja was concerned with the authority of the sacred texts of Hinduism and the rejection of certain elements from these texts in the Indian astronomical tradition. As part of his emphasis on the sacred texts, he sought to remove the contradictions between the the astronomical tradition and the sacred texts. As such, he reinterprets ideas from both traditions as well as adding his own cosmological theories. Jñānarāja's approach was taken up by the following generations of astronomers and helped shape the indigenous response to Islamic (and later Western) astronomy. This dissertation presents a critical edition of seven sections from the Siddhāntasundara based on twenty manuscripts from collections around the world. It also includes an English translation with commentary. As the treatise has not been edited previously, this is the first edition of the Sanskrit text as well as the first English translation.

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Subject: Asian literature; Science history

Classification: 0305: Asian literature; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Language, literature and linguistics Astronomy History of astronomy India Indian astronomy Jnanaraja Medieval India Sanskrit Siddhantasundara Translation

Title: The “Siddhāntasundara” of Jñānarāja: A critical edition of select chapters with English translation and commentary



Degree date: 2008

School code: 0024




ISBN: 9780549897866

University/institution: Brown University

University location: United States -- Rhode Island

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 11 of 25

Moving machines: The experience of new technologies from widescreen to digital cinema

Author: Rogers, Ariel Rebecca

Publication info: The University of Chicago, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3408589.


Abstract: This dissertation examines the ways in which technological changes have been understood to transform the experience of cinema. It looks closely at two instances of such change: the move to widescreen systems in the early to mid-1950s and the coming of digital cinema in the late 1990s and early 2000s. While the dissertation's attention to these moments gives it a historical focus, the project is framed theoretically around debates on spectatorship. Although cinematic experience arises in the unique encounter among specific viewers, movies, and viewing contexts, I claim, we can gain insight into that experience by examining the films and discursive regimes that, together, give it shape at particular historical junctures. Moreover, paying close attention to how the relationships among texts, technologies, viewers, and contexts have been presented at these moments of upheaval makes it possible to trace shifts in the terms according to which cinematic experience itself has been conceptualized. Chapter one contends that widescreen appealed to moviegoers by offering them a new experience of the human body, emblematized by Marilyn Monroe's role in the marketing of CinemaScope. Looking closely at the CinemaScope film East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955), chapter two argues that the new massive screens transformed the ways stylistic devices such as close framing addressed viewers. Shifting focus to digital cinema, chapter three brings together discussions of Hollywood special effects and independent filmmaking in order to highlight the disparate ways these discourses approached the shared feeling that digital technology had altered the relationship between self and world. Chapter four considers two very different instances of digital cinema, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (George Lucas, 1999) and Festen ( The Celebration , Thomas Vinterberg, 1998), suggesting that both "films" utilize digital technology to blur the boundaries between figure and space, although to divergent affective and political ends. By thus grounding ontological questions about each format and theoretical accounts of affective engagement in a discussion of

how widescreen and digital cinema have been conceived and used by critics and filmmakers, this dissertation argues that cinema's means for moving its viewers continue to evolve.

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Subject: Film studies

Classification: 0900: Film studies

Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts Digital cinema Experience New technologies Spectatorship Technology Widescreen

Title: Moving machines: The experience of new technologies from widescreen to digital cinema



Degree date: 2010

School code: 0330




ISBN: 9781124049274

Advisor: Gunning, Tom

Committee member: Hansen, Miriam; Lastra, James

University/institution: The University of Chicago

Department: Cinema and Media Studies

University location: United States -- Illinois

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 12 of 25

Researching North America: Sir Humphrey Gilbert's 1583 Expedition and a Reexamination of Early Modern English Colonization in the North Atlantic World

Author: Probasco, Nathan J.

Publication info: The University of Nebraska - Lincoln, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2013. 3558792.


Abstract: Sir Humphrey Gilbert's 1583 expedition to North America was the first attempt by an Englishman to colonize beyond the British Isles, and yet it has not been subject to thorough scholarly analysis for more than seventy years. Although it is often overlooked or misinterpreted by scholars, an exhaustive examination of the voyage reveals the complexity and preparedness of this and similar early modern English expeditions. Gilbert recruited several specialists who expended

considerable time and resources while researching and otherwise working in support of the voyage. Their efforts secured much needed capital, a necessary component of expensive private voyages, and they ensured that Gilbert had a reasonably clear picture of North American geography, flora, and fauna before leaving England's shores. Focusing specifically on the cartography, nautical science, and promotional literature of the expedition, my dissertation clarifies their role in Elizabethan colonization and elucidates the preparation stages of early modern English colonizing voyages. By enlisting promoters like Richard Hakluyt, Stephen Parmenius, and Christopher Carleill, whose skills and experience varied considerably but who nonetheless wrote compelling, well researched texts spanning multiple genres, Gilbert maximized his chances of gaining subscribers. He also recruited various skilled practitioners like John Dee to create manuscript and printed maps that helped him to gain permission for the voyage, to advertise it, to guide it, and to stake his claim to North America. Much of Gilbert's intelligence came from reading printed and manuscript texts, which allowed him to establish England's legal claim to North America. He and his supporters also interviewed Englishmen and foreigners who had been to Norumbega. Based upon their navigational research, Gilbert's circle intended to implement several seafaring advances during their transatlantic crossing, even if the crew was unable to execute all of their plans. Scholars typically depict England's earliest colonizing voyages as being haphazard and experimental in nature, but a close examination of the preparations for Gilbert's voyage shows that he and his supporters worked diligently for several years to ready themselves for their expedition to North America.

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Subject: European history; History; Science history

Classification: 0335: European history; 0578: History; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Atlantic world British colonization Cartography Early modern voyage History of science Navigation

Title: Researching North America: Sir Humphrey Gilbert's 1583 Expedition and a Reexamination of Early Modern English Colonization in the North Atlantic World



Degree date: 2013

School code: 0138

Source: DAI-A 74/08(E), Dissertation Abstracts International



ISBN: 9781303033704

Advisor: Levin, Carole B.

Committee member: Burnett, Amy; Coope, Jessica; Jones, Jeannette; Schleck, Julia

University/institution: The University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Department: History

University location: United States -- Nebraska

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 13 of 25

A Poisonous Sky: Scientific Research and International Diplomacy on Acid Rain

Author: Rothschild, Rachel Emma

Publication info: Yale University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2015. 3663569.


Abstract: In the years following the Second World War, radioactivity, pesticides, and other manmade pollutants prompted a considerable shift in the role of scientists in alerting the public and government officials to environmental dangers. In contrast to the visibility of black soot in urban cities or the destruction of forests and wild areas, these pollutants were not immediately or clearly detectable without scientific documentation and analysis. As a result, scientists became involved in a number of policymaking decisions that necessitated their expertise, such as

evaluating radioactive contamination in the Pacific testing grounds or advising governments on whether they should ban DDT. The growing body of evidence for the environmental risks of radioactive contamination and pesticides also led many policymakers and scientists to become increasingly apprehensive about the possibility that fossil fuels could similarly damage the environment. These concerns deepened during the late 1960s after the reported occurrence of "acid rain" in Scandinavia, which raised new questions about the extent to which fossil fuel pollutants were damaging areas remote from sources of emissions. The notion that air pollution from one nation could measurably affect the air quality of other countries presented particular challenges to an international community divided by the Cold War, and posed difficult questions about the obligation of major emitters to preserve the environment of their neighbors. This dissertation examines the history of scientific research on acid rain in the context of these emerging diplomatic efforts to address environmental issues and the ongoing Cold War. I show how the problem of acid rain shifted concerns about environmental risk from visible, local threats to invisible, chemical dangers on a worldwide scale, the ways in which it raised new debates about measuring long term, future damage against the more easily calculated economic costs of reducing fossil fuel pollution, and how it prompted scientists and politicians to grapple with the limits of environmental science to serve as a guide for policy making. I argue that the quest to convince the governments of polluting nations to reduce their emissions led to novel scientific and diplomatic collaborations across the iron curtain between Norway and the Soviet Union characterized by large amounts of government funding, new technologies, and interdisciplinary research, paving the way for a European-wide monitoring program on acid rain. Yet despite seeking to strengthen the surety of their research, Scandinavian scientists and environmental officials were continually told that not enough was known to take political action. This tactic, developed by British scientists and government officials in concert with other

major emitters, including the U.S., successfully delayed action to reduce acid rain and prompted policymakers and scientists to introduce the use of the precautionary principle instead of relying on scientific expertise to guide international environmental politics.

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Subject: Environmental Studies; World History; Science history

Classification: 0477: Environmental Studies; 0506: World History; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Health and environmental sciences Acid rain Cold War Environmental politics Environmental sciences International diplomacy Pollution

Title: A Poisonous Sky: Scientific Research and International Diplomacy on Acid Rain



Degree date: 2015

School code: 0265




ISBN: 9781321945461

Advisor: Kevles, Daniel J.

University/institution: Yale University

University location: United States -- Connecticut

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 14 of 25

Poetry and Chemistry, 1770-1830: Mingling Exploded Systems

Author: Hessel, Kurtis

Publication info: University of Colorado at Boulder, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10266922.


Abstract: Poetry and Chemistry, 1770-1830: Mingling Exploded Systems argues that changes in how scientists understood and practiced chemistry influenced how literary writers defined their field. These changes also contributed to a profound transformation occurring between 1770 and 1830: the separation of the arts and sciences into disciplines. I examine the establishment of chemistry as a branch of physical science, the relationship between poetic criticism and scientific theory, and the growing estrangement during the period among humanistic, aesthetic and scientific pursuits. Authors including Anna Barbauld,

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Humphry Davy responded to the specialization of knowledge ambivalently, embracing the capacity of new methods of order to intensify intellectual scrutiny, but resisting the tendency of disciplines to produce epistemological stability. My project highlights how the period’s writers of imaginative literature found chemistry entrancing. For example, I draw attention to Anna Barbauld’s eager depictions of Joseph Priestley’s laboratory and experiments, and feature Humphry Davy’s multifaceted generic and disciplinary fusions in his Consolations in Travel . In particular, I explore how the concept of the chemical element changed during the period, and how it changed literature: Antoine Lavoisier, in collaboration with other French chemists and following the work of an international scientific community, rejected the idea of four basic elements that the sciences had received from antiquity. Literary authors variously adopted and adapted his new concept to give order to their pursuits, and its prominence inflected their ideas about aesthetic wholeness and poetic fragmentation.

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Subject: Literature; Science history; British and Irish literature

Classification: 0401: Literature; 0585: Science history; 0593: British and Irish literature

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Social sciences Chemistry Coleridge Davy Element Poetics Romanticism

Title: Poetry and Chemistry, 1770-1830: Mingling Exploded Systems



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0051




ISBN: 9781369784800

Advisor: Heydt-Stevenson, Jill

Committee member: Cox, Jeffrey; Fulford, Tim; Muller-Sievers, Helmut; Youngquist, Paul

University/institution: University of Colorado at Boulder

Department: English

University location: United States -- Colorado

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 15 of 25

Far Corners of the Earth: A Media History of Logistics

Author: Hockenberry, Matthew

Publication info: New York University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10279339.


Abstract: “Far Corners of the Earth” narrates the media history of logistics. In so doing, it follows the transformation of early forms of logistical media in order to historicize their impact on the development of decentralized manufacture and the arrangement of the productive apparatus over the prior two centuries. This argues for an understanding of logistics as a second-order operation, the optimization and encapsulation of networks already well understood. To this end, I examine the extent to which emergent mediators—sites like the warehouse, small shop, and factory; documents like the bill of lading, parts list, and catalogue—came to be inscribed within the pattern of production externalized by technologies of telecommunication like the telegraph, telephone, and telex. In developing these accounts, I consider how these mediators circulated between actors as they engaged in historic debates about the nature of production. By reading media forms like advertisements, pamphlets, and reports not only as functional documents, but as emblems and spokes-things reinforcing particular patterns of association, these forms emerge as the very mechanisms defining emergent practices of manufacture and trade. They become not only the raw material for new patterns of association, but often the very means through which those associations became durable. By leveraging manufacturing networks into pathways for product distribution, some early twentieth century companies were able to marshal vast numbers of suppliers as sources for other businesses. For the readers of their supply catalogues or owners of their order books, this promised a singular point of origin for material needs. The incarnation of modern production that has followed from these promises arose not, I argue, from some “logistics revolution,” but

rather from the steady march of these communication technologies as they formed new assemblies of assembly. Through the work of the telecommunication and electrical industries—the companies of the Bell System, electrical manufacturers like Western Electric, and nascent computing concerns like IBM—the language of logistics has, I argue, become ingrained within the mechanisms of modern mediation.

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Subject: Communication; History; Transportation planning

Classification: 0459: Communication; 0578: History; 0709: Transportation planning

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Communication and the arts Logistics Media history Paperwork studies Supply chains Supply studies Telephone history

Title: Far Corners of the Earth: A Media History of Logistics



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0146




ISBN: 9781369791419

Advisor: Gitelman, Lisa

Committee member: Mills, Mara; Poovey, Mary

University/institution: New York University

Department: Media, Culture, and Communication


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 16 of 25

Tracing a Technological God: A Psychoanalytic Study of Google and the Global Ramifications of its Media Proliferation

Author: Fazzolari, Benton

Publication info: Florida Atlantic University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10610474.


Abstract: This dissertation makes the connection between the human drive, as described by psychoanalysis, to construct God and the construction of the technological entity, Google. Google

constitutes the extension of the early Christian period God to the twenty-first century. From the examination of significant religious and theological texts by significant theologians (Augustine, Thomas, Luther, Calvin, etc.) that explain the nature of God, the analogous relationship of God to Google will open a psychoanalytic discourse that answers questions on the current state of human mediation with the world. Freud and, more significantly, Lacan’s work connects the human creation of God, ex nihilio, to Google’s godly qualities and behaviors (omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and omnibenevolence). This illustrates the powerful motivation behind the creation of an allencompassing physical / earthly entity that includes the immaterial properties of God. Essentially, Google operates as the extension or replacement of the long reigning God in Western culture. Furthermore, the advent of science and technology through rationalism (as outlined by Nietzsche) results in the death of the metaphysical God and the ascension of the technological God. Google offers an appropriate example for study. Moreover, the work of Jean Baudrillard and Marshall McLuhan will further comment on Google as the technological manifestation of God, particularly in its media formulations. Finally, this dissertation concludes with a review that highlights future research with an exploration that foresees the death of Google from the same rational method of inquiry by which the death of God occurred at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Subject: Philosophy; Multimedia Communications; Mass communications

Classification: 0422: Philosophy; 0558: Multimedia Communications; 0708: Mass communications

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Communication and the arts Baudrillard, Jean Google Nietzsche, Fredrich Psychoanalysis

Title: Tracing a Technological God: A Psychoanalytic Study of Google and the Global Ramifications of its Media Proliferation



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0119




ISBN: 9781369849066

Advisor: Conrod, Frederic

University/institution: Florida Atlantic University

Department: Comparative Studies

University location: United States -- Florida

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 17 of 25

The Role of Interactivity in the Artistic Process of Web-Based Art: Case Studies of the Digital Media Art Pioneers' Practices and Studio Teaching

Author: Lee, Chia-Ling

Publication info: Teachers College, Columbia University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10262078.


Abstract: This qualitative case study began with a question: How can interactivity be taught, in particular online interactivity? Additionally, how does the teaching artist’s practice of online interactivity inform their studio teaching of interactive related themes? As such, this study first discloses patterns of the three select digital media artists’ artistic experiences of online interactivity. Then, this study aims to explore the reciprocal relationships between their practices and studio teaching. The three participating artists include: Lynn Hershman Leeson, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and Martine Neddam. The three selected artists have worked with digital media, with a focus on the Internet and online web browsers since the mid to late-1990s, when the Web was in the early stages of its public access and information deployment. In order to probe into this study’s research theme through the artists’ own voices, this study conducts in-depth interviews via email and Skype meetings. This study also employs In Vivo coding for data analysis in order to closely examine the interview data. The findings present a unit of discovered key

concepts in response to the central research question and its sub-questions. In response to the role of online interactivity in the artistic process, four key concepts have emerged: active participation, relationship, freedom , and artistic language . The artists believe that the creation of online interactivity has its roots in critical reflection of digital culture with humanistic views. In regard to pedagogical and instructional strategies related to the participating teaching artists’ practices of online interactivity, the three primary patterns discovered in this study are: artistic experience, problem-solving and dialogue . Surprisingly, the findings show that the artists’ responses to their pedagogies present a general view of studio art reaching, rather than an emphasis on teaching online interactivity in particular. The artists described that their pedagogies are informed by their practices, which deal with different challenges in a problem-solving process. These problems cover technological skills, practical matters, and mindsets. For the artists, their role of the artist-as-teacher is to guide their students in developing the ability to think holistically, and give them problem-solving skills in the students’ individual artistic processes.

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Subject: Art education; Art Criticism; Web Studies

Classification: 0273: Art education; 0365: Art Criticism; 0646: Web Studies

Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts Education Aesthetics Digital art Interactive art Internet art New media art Studio teaching

Title: The Role of Interactivity in the Artistic Process of Web-Based Art: Case Studies of the Digital Media Art Pioneers' Practices and Studio Teaching



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0055




ISBN: 9781369792751

Advisor: Jochum, Richard

Committee member: Hafeli, Mary; Vasudevan, Lalitha; Yorks, Lyle

University/institution: Teachers College, Columbia University

Department: Arts and Humanities


Degree: Ed.D.C.T.


Language: English







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Document 18 of 25

Damn the Torpedoes: The History of Science and Undersea Warfare in World War II

Author: Sims, Gary Lee

Publication info: Montana State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10270656.


Abstract: After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy Submarine Service had the submarines to, if not repel the attack on the Philippines, at least slow the Japanese Navy’s disbursement of troops and material on Luzon. They could not because of defective torpedoes. This book examines the US Navy’s submarine service’s torpedo controversy during World War II from December 7th 1941 through the resolution of the torpedo problems in October, 1943. By investigating War Patrol Reports, Action Reports and other official documents including personal and professional communiques between combat theater, command at Pearl Harbor and Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd) in Washington, D.C., this work shows how the Mark XIV/VI torpedo was a highly-technical, high-risk invention for war. Failures occur in high-tech, high-risk systems such as this. The U.S. Navy should have been expected and prepared for these failures but they did not. To make matters worse, command in Washington went into denial that there even was a problem. This abstract explains that denial of the problem for almost two years by BuOrd and Naval Command in Washington D.C. was inevitable. Using modern theories of the construction of knowledge, their repudiation of the problem can be predicted response by response. To support my conclusions, I rely on work of historians and sociologists such as Charles Perrow, Tim Bedford and Roger Cooke about high-risk technologies as a framework to view the science and technology

behind the Mark XIV/VI torpedo. Supporting my conclusions that Naval Command’s denial of the problem was inevitable, I apply theories of knowledge construction originating with sociologists of science such as Thomas Kuhn, Bruno Latour and David Bloor. Former submarine commanders, naval historians and those familiar with the torpedo controversy have long asked how this could have happened at all and why it took so long to rectify the problem. This book answers those questions.

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Subject: Naval engineering; Science history; Military history

Classification: 0468: Naval engineering; 0585: Science history; 0722: Military history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Applied sciences Mark 14 Mark 6 Navy Submarine Torpedo World war II

Title: Damn the Torpedoes: The History of Science and Undersea Warfare in World War II



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0137




ISBN: 9781369810172

Advisor: Reidy, Michael S.

Committee member: LeCain, Timothy; Rydell, Robert; Walker, Brett

University/institution: Montana State University

Department: History and Philosophy

University location: United States -- Montana

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 19 of 25

Evolutionary Aestheticism: Scientific Optimism and Cultural Progress, 1850-1913

Author: Wilhelm, Lindsay Puawehiwa

Publication info: University of California, Los Angeles, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10286120.


Abstract: While evolutionary science may appear to have little in common with the Aesthetic Movement—the “art for art’s sake” philosophy of culture that arose in Britain in the late 1860s—this dissertation contends that these schools of thought formed interdependently, through a sustained dialogic exchange between writers whose interests spanned both art and science. Prominent Victorian figures such as the polymath Herbert Spencer, the aesthete Oscar Wilde, and the critic Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) not only accepted the truth of Charles Darwin’s insights, but also converged in their conception of what I term “evolutionary aestheticism”: a rational and yet remarkably optimistic philosophy that looked to the enjoyment of beauty and the cultivation of taste, rather than violent Darwinian competition, for modes of peaceable evolutionary progress. Each chapter explores the development of evolutionary aestheticism, from the decade leading up to Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859) to the publication of Lee’s aesthetic primer The Beautiful (1913). The first chapter traces the tradition to Darwin’s and Spencer’s mid-century evolutionary theories, which exempted aesthetic experience from brutal natural laws of scarcity and struggle. Next, the dissertation considers how the cultural critic Walter Pater and the mathematician W. K. Clifford shaped aestheticism in the 1870s—the movement’s formative years—by postulating a scientifically inflected ideal of the aesthetic temperament. The third chapter juxtaposes Wilde’s criticism with Grant Allen’s popular science writing: in the 1890s, these two writers articulated a radically hedonic aesthetics that equated individual happiness with social progress. The fourth chapter analyzes the “life-enhancing” aesthetics of Lee and the connoisseur Bernard Berenson, both of whom discerned the true value of beauty in its capacity to revitalize the entire species as well as the individual. A short coda evaluates the legacy of evolutionary aestheticism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Although the scientific claims of evolutionary aestheticism have all but disappeared from modern-day discourse, its central aim of reconciling aesthetic pleasure

with social good has reemerged, this study concludes, in recent debates within literary and cultural criticism.

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Subject: Science history; British and Irish literature; Aesthetics

Classification: 0585: Science history; 0593: British and Irish literature; 0650: Aesthetics

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences Aestheticism Evolutionary science Fin de siecle Optimism Victorian aesthetics

Title: Evolutionary Aestheticism: Scientific Optimism and Cultural Progress, 1850-1913



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0031




ISBN: 9781369827286

Advisor: Bristow, Joseph E.

Committee member: Frank, Jr., Robert G.; Grossman, Jonathan H.; Hornby, Louise E. J.

University/institution: University of California, Los Angeles

Department: English 0345


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 20 of 25

The Family Circuit: Gender, Games, and Domestic Computing Culture, 1945-1990

Author: Hilu, Reem

Publication info: Northwestern University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10279758.


Abstract: In the 1970s and 1980s, computer technologies became newly available for use in the home in the form of personal computers, video game consoles, and microprocessors embedded into existing domestic objects and appliances. This dissertation examines the path through which computers were incorporated into domestic space and into the everyday practices of family life during this period. I interrogate the influence on the home of computing culture broadly – looking not only at computer technologies themselves, but also the discourses of cybernetics

that arose in conjunction with these technologies in the 1940s and that spread in later decades to influence therapeutic discourses on family life. I suggest that representations, discourses, and technologies of home computing constructed an ideal of domestic relations that can best be described as a “family circuit.” By exploring the family circuit, this dissertation argues that discourses and technologies of computing recast the family as a system of communication intimately intertwined with digital media. At the same time, I argue that the computer was also shaped by the encounter with family life, being redefined as a domestic medium and an extension of familial intimacy. In attending to the reciprocal relationship of influence between computer technologies and family life, the family circuit approach highlights objects and actors that are often ignored in digital media history and places the history of domestic practice, and of women’s labor maintaining the home and family, at the center of this account of computing. To do so, the dissertation focuses on the proliferation of home computing in the 1970s and 1980s, while connecting these trends to earlier domestic technologies and prior imaginings of the role of computers in the home. Each chapter of the dissertation sheds light on a different facet of the family circuit, showing how computer technologies intersected with existing domestic practices. The first chapter examines the way that family board games served as a site through which computer technologies and cybernetic conceptions of communication intervened in shaping family interactions. Chapter two analyzes computer-mediated talking dolls that encouraged girls to rehearse fantasies of command and control over their toys and their own voices in a manner consistent with cybernetic imperatives of the family circuit. Chapter three describes the application of computers to aiding women’s domestic labor in the home, analyzing the way these programs encouraged women to model their work after information technologies. The final chapter examines the use of computer technologies in mediating romantic and marital interactions by discussing the use of computers in dating services, marriage preparation and counseling programs,

and therapeutic, self-help software aimed at couples. By considering the emerging cybernetic discourses around play, labor, and romance, and other aspects of domestic life, the dissertation offers a broad view of the family circuit ideal that accompanied the rise of the home computer.

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Subject: American studies; Information Technology; Mass communications

Classification: 0323: American studies; 0489: Information Technology; 0708: Mass communications

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Communication and the arts Applied sciences Computer history Digital media Domestic technology Girlhood culture

Title: The Family Circuit: Gender, Games, and Domestic Computing Culture, 1945-1990



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0163

Source: DAI-A 78/10(E), Dissertation Abstracts Int ernational



ISBN: 9781369818826

Advisor: Spigel, Lynn Smith, Jacob

Committee member: Sconce, Jeffrey

University/institution: Northwestern University

Department: Screen Cultures


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English





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Document 21 of 25

Distant Electric Vision: Cultural Representations of Television From "Edison's Telephonoscope" to the Electronic Screen

Author: Roberts, Ivy

Publication info: Virginia Commonwealth University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10286676.


Abstract: Do inventions that exist only on paper have less credibility than functional technologies? How has the meaning and significance of audiovisual media and technology changed over time? This dissertation examines historiography and

methodology for media history, arguing for an interdisciplinary approach. It addresses methodological issues in media history—media in transition, media archaeology, and film history—through an examination of television’s speculative era. It tackles moving-image history through an historical investigation of Victorian and Machine age “television”. Because the concept and terminology of “television” changed dramatically during this period, I use the phrases “distant electric vision” and “seeing by electricity,” to define the concept of electric and electronic moving-image technology. By identifying manifestations of “television” before functional models existed, this dissertation examines the ways in which a modern concept of moving-image technology came into existence. Engineers and inventors, as well as audiences and journalists contributed to the construction of “television.” Newspaper announcements, editorial columns, letters to the editor, rumors and satires circulated. Victorian-era readers, writers and inventors pictured “seeing by electricity” to do for the eye what the telephone had done for the ear, bringing people closer together though separated by great distances. In contrast, early twentieth-century Machine-age engineers placed more emphasis on systems, communication, design, and picture quality. Developments in the 1920s with complex systems and electronics made “distant electric vision” a reality. This dissertation identifies several shifts that took place during television’s speculative era from the Victorian “annihilation of space” to Machine-Age systems engineering. Journalists, readers, and engineers all play a part in the rhetoric of innovation. From the Victorian era to the Machine age, the educational function of popular science and the role of audiences in constructing meaning and value for new technologies remain relatively consistent. I offer several case studies, including Thomas Edison’s inventions, illuminating engineering, and Bell Labs experiments with television. This dissertation argues that modern television design relies on the ability of the technology to make an unnatural experience seem as effortless as possible. Ultimately, it

advocates for an expanded definition of media and technology, along with an historical emphasis on context.

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Subject: Art history; History; Film studies

Classification: 0377: Art history; 0578: History; 0900: Film studies

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Communication and the arts Early cinema Media history Television Thomas Edison

Title: Distant Electric Vision: Cultural Representations of Television From "Edison's Telephonoscope" to the Electronic Screen



Degree date: 2017

School code: 2383




ISBN: 9781369847055

Advisor: Garberson, Eric

Committee member: Golumbia, David; Rader, Karen; Rhee, Jennifer; Speck, Oliver

University/institution: Virginia Commonwealth University

Department: Media, Art, and Text

University location: United States -- Virginia

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 22 of 25

Discovering Science for Women: The Life of Ellen Swallow Richards, 1842-1911

Author: Sutherland, Serenity

Publication info: University of Rochester, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10270756.


Abstract: Chemist Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) was the first female student and first female professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a scientist, Richards worked in nutritional sciences, water chemistry, sanitary science, home economics, mineralogy and mining engineering. Richards’s interdisciplinary focus was part of her scientific framework. I present Richards’s ability to synthesize and contribute to multiple and sometimes-contradictory scientific frameworks as connected

to her internalization of gender ideology in nineteenth-century science. Richards employed essentialist arguments for women’s increased participation in science. Doing this required categorizing women’s skills according to gender stereotypes: women belonged in the laboratory because they were willing to clean it; caring natures made women the perfect fit for analyzing the chemistry of cooking and cleaning; only women who managed households could understand the importance of a clean environment. This essentialist logic existed alongside portrayals of herself as strong and physically fit enough to attend field schools, descending into mines and scaling cliffs to collect mineralogy specimens. Negotiating gender boundaries and moving fluidly between categorical knowledge systems was both her modus operandi and her survival strategy in a masculinized profession. My work traces Richards’s intellectual developments from her girlhood as the daughter of an unsuccessful farmer and grocer, in Chapter 2, to her scientific awakening at Vassar under the tutelage of astronomer Maria Mitchell in Chapter 3. Wanting to improve the lives of humans, Richards decided to focus on chemistry, and Chapter 4 delves into her first coeducational experience at MIT and also demonstrates how, unlike other women of science, Richards’s marriage to Robert H. Richards was one of the sustaining factors of her career. Chapter 5 looks at the formation of the Women’s Laboratory at MIT. During this time, Richards also began doing work in water chemistry, sanitary science and the chemistry of food. Chapter 6 explores her work in early nutritional sciences through her efforts to start the New England Kitchen, a nutritional kitchen that prepared take-home meals for laborers to purchase, and her bourgeoning interest in Progressive-era women’s clubs and reform. Chapter 7 looks at her promotion of Home Economics as a scientific profession for women from 1895-1910. Chapter 8 presents Richards’s theory of euthenics that argued if humans did not clean up the Earth’s air, water, food and soil, the human race would die out. Euthenics served as a summation of Richards’s interdisciplinary theories

and is a perfect example of her combination of organismic and mechanistic science.

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Subject: Womens studies; Science history

Classification: 0453: Womens studies; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Richards, Ellen Swallow

Title: Discovering Science for Women: The Life of Ellen Swallow Richards, 1842-1911



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0188




ISBN: 9781369823271

Advisor: Slaughter, Thomas P.

Committee member: Brown, Theodore; Rubel, Nora

University/institution: University of Rochester

Department: Arts and Scie nces


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 23 of 25

A Doctor on the Clock: Hourly Timekeeping and Galen's Scientific Method

Author: Miller, Kassandra Jackson

Publication info: The University of Chicago, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10273020.


Abstract: In the modern day, we understand time to be a fundamental scientific variable. In Greco-Roman antiquity, however, timekeeping’s potential to facilitate scientific inquiry was only beginning to be explored. We have over 500 examples of sundials and water-clocks dating to as early as the 4 th c. BCE, and literary and inscriptional evidence from the Imperial period suggests that, by this point, hourly timekeeping had become integrated into many aspects of society. Yet, few scholars have explored the impact that this new technology may have had on

scientific investigation outside of the realm of technical astronomy. This dissertation aims to initiate such a conversation by analyzing how Galen of Pergamum, a renowned second-century physician, used sundials, water-clocks, and the unit of the hour in his medical and philosophical writings. It also contributes toward our larger understanding of horology’s roles in the Greco-Roman world by offering a rare case study of how one individual engaged with the technology around him. Two primary questions drive this dissertation. First, how, when, and why does Galen exploit clock technology in his disputes with fellow doctors and philosophers? Second, to what extent are Galen’s attitudes towards horology representative for his time? Chapters One and Two address these questions within the context of Galen’s On the Affections and Errors of the Human Soul, a treatise on epistemology and ethical psychology that, unusually, features an extended discussion of sundial and water-clock construction. Chapter One explores how Galen uses these processes to highlight the differences between his own method of scientific inquiry and the methods used by members of contemporary philosophical schools. I demonstrate that Galen associates clock-design with the positive concepts of verifiability, clarity, concord, utility, and long-term scientific progress, while associating sectarian philosophies with the opposite. Chapter Two contextualizes Galen’s attitude toward clocks by investigating the semiotic fields of sundials and water-clocks under the Roman Empire. I show that, across a range of media, sundials had become linked with the idea of the philosopher. I proceed to argue that, by incorporating clocks into his philosophical work, Galen adapts a common trope in order to promote his own scientific method as a way of life. Chapters Three and Four focus on how Galen integrates seasonal and equinoctial hours into two of his less-studied treatises, On Critical Days and Against Those Who Have Written on Types, which deal with intermittent fevers such as malaria. The third chapter examines how Galen works references to hourly timekeeping into his defense and refinement of Hippocratic “critical day” theory. I propose that, both in his

fever case histories and in his astrological explanations for critical days, Galen uses hourly timekeeping to help himself defend two claims: (a) that he is familiar with astronomy, and (b) that his own theories align closely with Hippocratic teachings. The fourth chapter explores how Galen incorporates hours into his critique of complex fever classification systems and, in so doing, manages to highlight his own empiricism and rationality, the essential components of his scientific method. In the fifth and final chapter, I relate Galen’s interest in hourly timekeeping to his understanding of kairos, the “right moment” to engage in an action. Using On Hygiene as a case study, I demonstrate how Galen presents the relationship between kairoi and hours differently in different contexts, depending on whether the patient is sick, healthy, or simply old. Ultimately, my investigation reveals that, while Galen engages closely with contemporary scholarly and representational trends, the manner and degree to which he applies hourly timekeeping to medical and philosophical controversies is unique among our limited extant sources.

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Subject: Classical studies; Classical Studies; Ancient history; Science history

Classification: 0294: Classical studies; 0434: Classical Studies; 0579: Ancient history; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Social sciences Clock Galen Hour Medicine Science Sundial

Title: A Doctor on the Clock: Hourly Timekeeping and Galen's Scientific Method



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0330




ISBN: 9780355077902

Advisor: Faraone, Christopher

Committee member: Asmis, Elizabeth; Bresson, Alain; Hall, Jonathan

University/institution: The University of Chicago

Department: Classics: Ancient Mediterranean World


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 24 of 25

Scheduled Lightpath Switching in optical networks

Author: Plante, Jeremy M.

Publication info: University of Massachusetts Lowell, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10724234.


Abstract: Emerging trends in scientific exploration are directing a steady evolution in unprecedented networking requirements. Optical wavelength-routed networks constitute the majority of the high-speed, low-latency technology configurations essential for supporting future communication. These systems enable parallel transmission of massive datasets on non-interfering wavelength channels. However, as scientific endeavor expands, the simple availability of multi-wavelength resources will fall short of sufficient. Rather, resources must be allocated intelligently, efficiently, and flexibly to bear the burdens of high-volume science. Efficiently scheduling prospective optical traffic is among the most complex problems in the field of communications. Each demand must be allocated a collection of physical and spectral resources in order to provision a reservation - known as a lightpath - on the network, while simultaneously identifying an appropriate set of temporal resources to effectively schedule the solution. At scale, the construction of a comprehensive and efficient lightpath schedule is a juggling act of budgeting across a fairly broad set of resource-specific domains in aggregate. This work introduces allocation opportunity among the synergistic resource domains via a novel family of lightpath scheduling enhancements called Lightpath Switching . Lightpath switching supports intermittent alteration to the lightpath solutions assigned to each reservation in an effort to expose potential for reducing resource fragmentation and increasing utilization efficiency. The purpose of this work is to systematically investigate the advantages and disadvantages of exposing resource provisioning to spectral-wavelength, spatial-routing, and terminal-destination Lightpath switching flexibility. These enhancements are applied in turn, as well as in combination, in order to furnish commentary on the relative efficacy, costs,

benefits, and tradeoffs of supporting lightpath switching in various arrangement. Each corresponding scheduling problem is be proven intractable, belonging to the complexity class NP -Complete. Optimal solution space modeling, heuristic approximation, and extensive quantitative and qualitative analysis is performed for a broad range of traffic inputs and network configurations in order to facilitate evaluation. Performance is examined at multiple cross-domain resource granularities, while opportunities to mitigate switching cost overhead are assessed. Findings indicate substantial efficiency gain, particularly via spectral lightpath switching.

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Subject: Communication; Computer Engineering; Computer science

Classification: 0459: Communication; 0464: Computer Engineering; 0984: Computer science

Identifier / keyword: Applied sciences Communication and the arts Flexible Communications High-Speed Networking Lightpath Scheduling Networking Optical Communications Routing and Wavelength Assignment

Title: Scheduled Lightpath Switching in optical networks



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0111

Source: DAI-B 79/02(E), Dissertation Abstracts International



ISBN: 9780355467734

Advisor: Vokkarane, Vinod M.

University/institution: University of Massachusetts Lowell


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 25 of 25

An Exploration of Diversity and Inclusion in Introductory Physics

Author: Henderson, Rachel J.

Publication info: West Virginia University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2018. 10750860.


Abstract: Diversity and inclusion has been a concern for the physics community for nearly 50 years. Despite significant efforts including the American Physical Society (APS) Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) and the APS Bridge Program, women, African Americans, and Hispanics continue to be substantially underrepresented in the physics profession. Similar efforts within the field of engineering, whose students make up the majority of students in the introductory calculus-based physics courses, have also met with limited success. With

the introduction of research-based instruments such as the Force Concept Inventory (FCI), the Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation (FMCE), and the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM), differences in performance by gender began to be reported. Researchers have yet to come to an agreement as to why these “gender gaps” exist in the conceptual inventories that are widely used in physics education research and/or how to reduce the gaps. The “gender gap” has been extensively studied; on average, for the mechanics conceptual inventories, male students outperform female students by 13% on the pretest and by 12% post instruction. While much of the gender gap research has been geared toward the mechanics conceptual inventories, there have been few studies exploring the gender gap in the electricity and magnetism conceptual inventories. Overall, male students outperform female students by 3.7% on the pretest and 8.5% on the post-test; however, these studies have much more variation including one study showing female students outperforming male students on the CSEM. Many factors have been proposed that may influence the gender gap, from differences in background and preparation to various psychological and sociocultural effects. A parallel but largely disconnected set of research has identified gender biased questions within the FCI. This research has produced sporadic results and has only been performed on the FCI. The work performed in this manuscript will seek to synthesize these strands and use large datasets and deep demographic data to understand the persistent differences in male and female performance.

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Subject: Physics; Science education; Gender studies

Classification: 0605: Physics; 0714: Science education; 0733: Gender studies

Identifier / keyword: Pure sciences Social sciences Education Conceptual inventories Education Gender

Title: An Exploration of Diversity and Inclusion in Introductory Physics



Degree date: 2018

School code: 0256




ISBN: 9780355937541

Advisor: Stewart, John

Committee member: Cassak, Paul; Hernandez, Paul; Singh, Chandralekha; Stewart, Gay

University/institution: West Virginia University

Department: Arts & Sciences

University location: United States -- West Virginia

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English




Table of contents

1. Origins of the geomagnetic polarity -reversal time scale and the rise of young-rock potassium -argon geochronology

2. Technic and ideology: The engineering ideal and American political culture, 1892-1934

3. Galileo and the problems of motion

4. Theodore Rousseau and the ecological landscape

5. Kant's early philosophy of nature: Science and metaphysics

6. Making mice: C. C. Little, the Jackson Laboratory, and the standardization of Mus musculus for research

7. The green republic: A conservation history of Costa Rica, 1838-1996

8. An astronomer beyond the observatory: Harlow Shapley as prophet of science

9. War of the corms: Haeckelian bio-politics and Oka Asajiro's “Evolution and Human Life”

10. Through Hellenistic eyes: Joseph as scientist in post-biblical literature

11. Probing the philosophical beliefs of instructional design faculty and professionals

12. A ‘Fantastical’ Experiment: Motivations, Practice, and Conflict in the History of Nuclear Transplantation, 1925–1970

13. The lighthouse and the observatory: Islam, authority, and cultures of astronomy in late Ottoman Egypt

14. Engineering the Nile: Irrigation and the British Empire in Egypt, 1882-1914

15. Chemical analysis and experts in contemporary Spain: Antonio Casares Rodríguez (1812-1888) and José Gil Casares (1866-1961)

16. Science-Market Analogies: A Philosophical Examination

17. Mind as Theory Engine: Causation, Explanation and Time

18. Modelling Inferences in Historical Linguistics

19. In This Together: Consubstantial Ethos in Writing in the Sciences Classrooms

20. Social Transformation through Art: Slow Food Ideology and the Social Protest Novel

21. Social-Ecological Systems, Values, and the Science of "People Management"

22. Production and Technological Change: Ironworking in Prehistoric Ireland

23. Collaboration in Scientific Research: Factors That Influence Effective Collaboration During a Period of Transformational Change

24. Darwin, Design, and Dysteleology: A Critical Evaluation of William Dembski and Francisco Ayala on the Problem of Suboptimal Design

25. Growing Past Ourselves: Toward a Pedagogy of Change Through the Evolutionary Epistemology and Developmental Teleology of Charles Sanders Peirce

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Origins of the geomagnetic polarity -reversal time scale and the rise of young-rock potassium -argon geochronology

Author: Glen, William

Publication info: Union Institute and University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1979. DP10807.


Abstract: The geomagnetic polarity-reversal time scale, which is a chronology based on the counting of reversals of the earth's magnetic field, was the key to the confirmation of sea-floor spreading and crucial in the development of plate tectonics theory. In the late 1950's, the small, rock magnetism community, lacking definitive evidence, was divided over the question of

whether reversely magnetized rocks were due to reversals of the magnetic field or reversals of magnetism within the rocks themselves due to mineralogical properties. The polarity-teversal time scale grew from efforts to decide that profound question. Amongst the few who subscribed to the field reversal hypothesis, only Allan V. Cox and Richard R. Doell, trained in paleomagnetism under John Verhoogen at Berkeley, conceived, and later in 1959 undertook the first research program, specifically aimed at resolution of that question at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California. Cox and Doell astutely invited G. Brent Dalrymple, a Berkeley trained geochronologist, into a highly productive collaboration which produced the majority of the data of the polarity-reversal scale. In a way that was totally unanticipated, in 1966, the eleventh version of the polarity-reversal scale, containing a newly discovered polarity “event”, became the master key in the recognition that the oceanic lithosphere is imprinted with the record of field reversals in the form of magnetic stripes, which occur in exactly the same ratio as the polarity-reversal scale. Such a pattern of stripes in such a ratio confirmed great movement of the sea-floor. This evidence came during, and greatly heightened the conceptual tumult of the mid-1960's surrounding the sea-floor spreading hypothesis. Within two years sea-floor spreading evolved into the plate tectonics model through a number of contributions treating geologic structures and kinematics. Plate tectonics was born and gained ascendacy as a far reaching paradigm more quickly than had any before, in any science, because it permitted the integration of many diverse, very important, puzzling observations into a more cohesive science which implemented a vast range of new predictions. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)


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Subject: Geology; Science history

Classification: 0372: Geology; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Earth sciences Geochronology Geomagnetic Polarity-reversal Potassium-argon

Title: Origins of the geomagnetic polarity -reversal time scale and the rise of young-rock potassium -argon geochronology



Degree date: 1979

School code: 1414

Source: DAI-B 65/06, Dissertation Abstracts International



Advisor: Gromme, C. Sherman

University/institution: Union Institute and University

University location: United States -- Ohio

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English


Dissertation/thesis number: DP10807





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Technic and ideology: The engineering ideal and American political culture, 1892-1934

Author: Jordan, John Matthew

Publication info: University of Michigan, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1989. 8920558.


Abstract: Using the engineer's conquest of the natural world as an analogy for a new politics, technocratic Progressives envisioned a rational state of material abundance, rational administration, and managerial values. Herbert Croly, Charles Steinmetz, and other advocates of "the engineering ideal" posed an appealing alternative to what Walter Lippmann referred to as "drift." Tools of logic originating in natural science buttressed a political language understood by and favorable to a growing middle class. The rationality professionalism, and success of the engineer represented the embodiment of these political aspirations. The cultural authority of the engineer thus proved appealing to political reformers eager to modernize politics and to increase their own credibility and prestige. Herbert Hoover, the "Great Engineer, " attempted to implement many tenets of the engineering ideal in his associative state in the 1920s. Recruiting political scientists, economists, sociologists, and rational administrators to the Department of Commerce, Hoover advanced the cause of social science professionalization. He failed, however, to construct an administrative economy within the ideological outlines of an individualist liberalism still grounded in nineteenth-century values. Chapter one introduces the society-as-machine idea, looking back to Auguste Comte, Lester Frank Ward, and Edward Bellamy. Thorstein Veblen is the subject of chapter two. I contend that in his years at the University of Chicago he outlined a political theory strikingly close to that acted out by many progressives roughly a decade later. Chapter three

concerns developments in the professionalization of engineering and social science up to 1911. I also look at Frederick W. Taylor and other advocates of "scientific management." By 1914, efficiency had become a nationwide enthusiasm, as chapter four shows. The rhetoric eventually died down, but 1919 witnessed the social implementation of the dominant political metaphor in the hasty organization of the "war machine." In chapter five I discuss how technocratic progressives got their chance to organize World War I society along rational lines, and how the attempt failed. Chapter six focuses on Hoover's associative state and on the increasingly behaviorist and quantitative social scientists who came to prominence in the same years. In the epilogue Lewis Mumford and Charles Beard appear as examples of men who sought to turn the machine's cultural repercussions to human purposes. Their projects failed because of the pervasive determinism necessarily resulting from a mechanistic conception of politics.

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Subject: American studies; American history; Science history

Classification: 0323: American studies; 0337: American history; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences

Title: Technic and ideology: The engineering ideal and American political culture, 1892-1934



Degree date: 1989

School code: 0127




Advisor: Hollinger, David A.

University/institution: University of Michigan

University location: United States -- Michigan

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 3 of 25

Galileo and the problems of motion

Author: Hooper, Wallace Edd

Publication info: Indiana University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1992. 9231605.


Abstract: Galileo's science of motion changed natural philosophy. His results initiated a broad human awakening to the intricate new world of physical order found in the midst of familiar operations of nature. His thinking was always based squarely on the academic traditions of the spiritual old world. He advanced physics by new standards of judgment drawn from mechanics and geometry, and disciplined observation of the world. My study first determines the order of composition of the earliest essays on motion and physics, ca. 1588-1592, from internal evidence, and

bibliographic evidence. There are clear signs of a Platonist critique of Aristotle, supported by Archimedes, in the Ten Section Version of On Motion, written ca. 1588, and probably the earliest of his treatises on motion or physics. He expanded upon his opening Platonic-Archimedean position by investigating the ideas of scholastic critics of Aristotle, including the Doctores Parisienses, found in his readings of the Jesuit Professors at the Collegio Romano. Their influences surfaced clearly in Galileo's Memoranda on Motion and the Dialogue on Motion, and in On Motion, which followed, ca. 1590-1592. At the end of his sojourn in Pisa, Galileo opened the road to the new physics by solving an important problem in the mechanics of Pappus, concerning motion along inclined planes. My study investigates why Galileo gave up attempts to establish a ratio between speed and weight, and why he began to seek the ratios of time and distance and speed, by 1602. It also reconstructs Galileo's development of the 1604 principle, seeking to outline its invention, elaboration, and abandonment. Then, I try to show that we have a record of Galileo's moment of recognition of the direct relation between the time of fall and the accumulated speed of motion--that great affinity between time and motion and the key to the new science of motion established before 1610. Evidence also ties the discovery of the time affinity directly to Galileo's first recognitions of the parabolic trajectory. Finally, we are prepared for a concluding discussion of his grasp of the principle of inertia in its various manifestations.

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Subject: Science history; Physics; Philosophy

Classification: 0585: Science history; 0605: Physics; 0422: Philosophy

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences Pure sciences Italy

Title: Galileo and the problems of motion



Degree date: 1992

School code: 0093




Advisor: Westfall, Richard S.

University/institution: Indiana University

University location: United States -- Indiana

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 4 of 25

Theodore Rousseau and the ecological landscape

Author: Thomas, Greg Morris

Publication info: Harvard University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1995. 9539047.


Abstract: The dissertation analyzes in depth the landscape paintings of Theodore Rousseau (1812-1867), arguing that his work embodied a new way of seeing, one intimately linked with ecological thinking. An introduction questions the relation between an artist and his or her work, and presents the historical background to 19th-century ecology. Chapter one, demonstrating how Rousseau's reputation as a politically liberal man of nature was constructed through an entrenched discourse of art and biography, undermines the received notion that his work was a naturalistic precursor to Impressionism. The second chapter describes Rousseau's formal innovations in detail, showing how they suppressed social narratives and restructured one-point perspective to institute a new relationship between an organically interconnected external world and a physically limited viewing subject. Rousseau's life and writings are separated out from his paintings in the third chapter. It argues that in his daily habits and social relations, he fashioned a life that would enhance the interpretation of his landscapes as naturalistic and politically liberal; it further analyzes how his writings on art redefined fundamental artistic terms such as composition and modeling in order to direct the critical reception of his work towards his formal innovations. Chapter four then examines three important French sites that Rousseau visited and depicted, demonstrating how his formal system cast aside picturesque modes of landscape viewing, reshaping the meanings those sites held in French culture and drawing attention to the ecological processes going on in the landscape. A final chapter focuses on Barbizon, where Rousseau lived from 1847 to 1867. Exposing the various functions and uses of the adjacent forest of Fontainebleau--royal hunting, wood gathering by indigents, timber and stone production, tourism, and art--it explains how Rousseau succeeded in having land preserves established to thwart over-exploitation of the forest and how his paintings idealized the forest as a perfectly ordered and self-sustaining microcosm into which indigenous people could be integrated. The conclusion of the dissertation

points out the romantic roots of ecology and suggests that ecology is based in large part upon an aesthetic value.

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Subject: Art History; Science history; European history; Environmental science; Biographies

Classification: 0377: Art History; 0585: Science history; 0335: European history; 0768: Environmental science; 0304: Biographies

Identifier / keyword: Health and environmental sciences Communication and the arts Social sciences Language, literature and linguistics France Rousseau, Th\'eodore

Title: Theodore Rousseau and the ecological landscape



Degree date: 1995

School code: 0084




Advisor: Zerner, Henri

University/institution: Harvard University


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 5 of 25

Kant's early philosophy of nature: Science and metaphysics

Author: Schonfeld, Martin Roland



Abstract: The dissertation is a study of Immanuel Kant's early philosophy of nature. Kant's main project was the reconciliation of Newton's scientific perspective with the vantage point of metaphysics. Kant hoped to justify the metaphysical principles of God, value, and freedom within a Newtonian model of physical nature. In the pursuit of this task, Kant formulated a methodology that was supposed to give metaphysical investigations scientific rigor, and he developed an ontology that was supposed to unify the causal structures of physical events, teleological processes, and free actions. The philosophical difficulties Kant encountered with this project eventually triggered his critical turn, which generated his greatest work, the Critique of Pure Reason. The standard assessment of Kant's early period is that it involved a largely erratic development of thought which merely amounted to an eclectic combination of Leibniz and Newton. I argue that this is inaccurate. The development of Kant's early thought does not exhibit sudden reversals, but a linear growth leading to his mature philosophy, revealing Kant's critical revolution as an evolution instead. Moreover, Kant's precritical project is far more original than usually thought, involving powerful and creative theories that anticipate contemporary positions to an astonishing degree.

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Subject: Philosophy; Science history

Classification: 0422: Philosophy; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences

Title: Kant's early philosophy of nature: Science and metaphysics



Degree date: 1995

School code: 0093






Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 6 of 25

Making mice: C. C. Little, the Jackson Laboratory, and the standardization of Mus musculus for research

Author: Rader, Karen A.



Abstract: Laboratory mice are likely the most important instruments employed by contemporary biomedical researchers, and also key elements of material culture in the life sciences. Yet the history of their use in biological experimentation remains virtually unexplored. This dissertation examines the career of C.C. Little (1888-1971) from 1909 to 1947, as a means of illuminating the transformation of the common house mouse, mus musculus, into a standard organism for research. The inbred mouse was first created and systematically used by Little as a tool for investigating cancer inheritance. Little developed a programmatic vision linking mouse research and the human applications of experimental genetic knowledge, and he institutionalized that vision by founding the Jackson Lab in Bar Harbor, Maine (1929). This institution went on to become an important node for the standardization, mass production, and distribution of inbred mice to various scientific user communities. In particular, Little fostered a cancer genetics research program, as well as encouraged the formalization of the "craft knowledge" necessary for practical implementation of inbred mice across disciplines. With the help of the Rockefeller Foundation, he built a series of "mouse houses" that insured controlled maintenance of inbred mouse material. Simultaneously, Little played a key role in organizing the mouse

genetics research community, although his policy-making status as director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer (1930-45) made his practical impact on mouse use greater in cancer research. Ultimately, Little also justified continued work with inbred mice by deploying cultural stereotypes of mice to argue for their lower ethical status. Most broadly, this account suggests that the historical assimilation of the mouse into research culture reflected contemporary ethical attitudes towards animals, even though there was almost no controversy surrounding its use. The analysis of the common mouse's passage from the wild into the hands of Little and then back into the laboratory as a standard organism affords many important insights into the complex relations between social attitudes, scientific policies, experimental practices, and instrumental technologies.

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Subject: Science history; American history; Zoology; Biographies

Classification: 0585: Science history; 0337: American history; 0472: Zoology; 0304: Biographies

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Language, literature and linguistics Biological sciences Little, C. C.@ Maine

Title: Making mice: C. C. Little, the Jackson Laboratory, and the standardization of Mus musculus for research



Degree date: 1995

School code: 0093






Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 7 of 25

The green republic: A conservation history of Costa Rica, 1838-1996

Author: Evans, Sterling David

Publication info: University of Kansas, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1997. 9830385.


Abstract: Costa Rica is often cited as a "model" for environmental conservation. This dissertation seeks to track the history of conservation efforts in Costa Rica via analysis of the development of its national parks and other protected areas. The focus of the work will be on discussing how Costa Rica came to establish its conservation system which today includes over twenty-five percent of the country's terrain. It will describe the system, discuss key leaders involved, and analyze conservation in light of what it was in response to: rapid destruction of tropical

ecosystems due to the expansion of export-related agricultural commodities. How and why were national parks and biological reserves proposed and designated? Who has been behind them? Why and how did these individuals become involved in their country's conservation movement? What has been the overall impact of conservation on the nation's environmental well being, economy, and education? What challenges have conservationists had to confront; what goals and dilemmas await them? Importantly, the work will address what Costa Ricans have said and are saying about these conservation concerns. Emphasis will be placed on policy reactions--laws and decrees and how they came about. To limit the scope of this project, "conservation" here will imply the creation of national parks, biological reserves, national wildlife refuges, and indigenous reserves that have been set aside for long-range preservation for future generations. While there have been many works written about Costa Rica's national parks, what is missing is a historical work that links development of conservation patterns with agricultural and political history. The intent of this dissertation is to show how conservation policy came about, how leaders in the movement worked to forge changes, and how conservation thought has evolved from the early days of Costa Rican independence to 1996.

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Subject: Latin American history; Science history; Environmental science

Classification: 0336: Latin American history; 0585: Science history; 0768: Environmental science

Identifier / keyword: Health and environmental sciences Social sciences

Title: The green republic: A conservation history of Costa Rica, 1838-1996



Degree date: 1997

School code: 0099




ISBN: 9780591831993, 0591831996

Advisor: Stansifer, Charles

University/institution: University of Kansas

University location: United States -- Kansas

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 8 of 25

An astronomer beyond the observatory: Harlow Shapley as prophet of science

Author: Palmeri, JoAnn

Publication info: The University of Oklahoma, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2000. 9952415.


Abstract: By 1918 American astronomer Harlow Shapley (1885–1972) had completed the work that established his reputation as a scientist and secured his place as one of the most important contributors to the development of twentieth-century astronomy. This work included techniques to determine stellar distances and the discovery of the eccentric location of the solar system within the Milky Way. While Shapley continued to conduct scientific research for the next five decades, his most important contribution to astronomy during these years lay in his Directorship of the Harvard College Observatory. Preoccupation with Shapley's early work neglects other important facets of his professional life. From lecturing in colleges and churches, to promoting international cooperation, to participating in multidisciplinary postwar planning, to political lobbying, to popularizing science, Shapley devoted substantial time and effort to activities outside the scope of his roles as astronomer and observatory director. Throughout his life Shapley devoted himself to the mission of spreading the word of the significance of the cosmic facts for humanity, and pointing out the philosophical, social, and religious implications of science. In this dissertation I characterize Shapley as a prophet of science to highlight the continuing mission on behalf of science that underlies his wideranging activities in the public arena. In this study I document Shapley's shifting strategies to promote science from the 1920s through the 1960s and his personal and professional motivations for doing so. While Shapley's missionary impulse on behalf of science was rooted in the 1920s, the intellectual and cultural climate of postwar America provided inspiration and opportunity to promote science as “rational religion.” His interest in biological subjects led him to emphasize “cosmic evolution” as the foundation for a new “stellar theology.” Shapley helped create a new niche for the astronomer within the public arena, and

helped to establish the cosmos as a compelling public venue for pondering the fate of humanity and addressing questions of moral and spiritual significance.

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Subject: Science history; American history; Biographies

Classification: 0585: Science history; 0337: American history; 0304: Biographies

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Language, literature and linguistics Astronomer Prophet of science Shapley, Harlow

Title: An astronomer beyond the observatory: Harlow Shapley as prophet of science



Degree date: 2000

School code: 0169




ISBN: 9780599560253, 0599560258

Advisor: Mitman, Gregg A. Taylor, Kenneth L.

University/institution: The University of Oklahoma

University location: United States -- Oklahoma

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 9 of 25

War of the corms: Haeckelian bio-politics and Oka Asajiro's “Evolution and Human Life”

Author: Sullivan, Gregory Franzis

Publication info: Yale University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2005. 3194713.


Abstract: The dissertation addresses the early political thought of the German-trained, Japanese zoologist and popularizer of evolutionism, Oka Asajiro (1868--1944). It concentrates on a series of essays that Oka published in major magazines in the years during and after the Russo-Japanese War---writings which were later anthologized as Evolution and Human Life ( Shinka to Jinsei ) in 1906 and that appeared again in 1911 and 1921 in expanded versions. I argue that Oka, in these essays, articulated a vision of the human struggle for existence based on the state organism theory of the renowned German zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), and did so in a manner that stressed the scientific underpinnings of the emerging family-state ideology of the late 1900s. Though it treated the emperor as a living god, the family-state concept had, since the 1880s, relied heavily on Haeckel's

theory. Having received a doctorate in zoology from the University of Leipzig under Haeckel's colleague Rudolf Leuckart (1823--98), Oka attempted to magnify this aspect of the ideology by using his own internationally recognized researches into manifestations of such state organisms in the natural world---called "corms" by contemporary scientists---to illustrate that national mobilization could be achieved without bowing to superstitions that might undermine technological innovation. For Oka, the nation is a racial super-organism that must overcome internal divisions through the promotion of instinct-building Lamarckian moral habits---what Oka, gesturing to Confucianism, calls the human "way" of altruism---if it is to survive the inevitable war of the corms. This bio-political vision was not meant to undermine the family-state and supplant the emperor, but to convince educated Japanese that the nation literally was a family: an organic entity in the biological sense---one that could thrive as an imperial power only by emulating the "corms" found in nature.

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Subject: History; Science history; Asian literature

Classification: 0332: History; 0585: Science history; 0305: Asian literature

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Language, literature and linguistics Biopolitics Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel Evolution and Human Life Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Monism Oka Asajiro Social Darwinism

Title: War of the corms: Haeckelian bio-politics and Oka Asajiro's “Evolution and Human Life”



Degree date: 2005

School code: 0265




Advisor: Spence, Jonathan D.

University/institution: Yale University

University location: United States -- Connecticut

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 10 of 25

Through Hellenistic eyes: Joseph as scientist in post-biblical literature

Author: Jovanovic, Ljubica

Publication info: Vanderbilt University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2007. 3313118.


Abstract: The Hellenistic period witnesses the expansion of ancient science encompassing many diverse schools of thought. Similarly, multiple interpretations of biblical texts thrived,

promoting the simultaneous continuation of diverse interpretive traditions. This work aims to show that the popularity of the image of a Hellenistic scientist nourished a flourishing contemporaneous Hellenistic literature on Joseph, wherein an image of Joseph was constructed by associating his divinatory practices and dream interpretations with the professional activities of Hellenistic scientists. After an introductory chapter that establishes perimeters for this study, analyses are presented of relevant elements in the works of Josephus and Philo, The Ethiopic Story of Joseph , Rabbinic midrashim, Jubilees, The Testaments of 12 Patriarchs , and Joseph and Aseneth . They show that Joseph's specialty was the science of vision or ancient optics. Joseph's dream interpretations and divinations through a cup are said to belong to the same scientific phenomena. Given that the literary genre has social and cultural dimension, this study proposes a new category of cultural adaptation at a distinct period in Jewish history, with oneiromancy and lecanomancy belonging to the genre we might call “revelation by visual effects.” In the process, the still accepted scholarly division of dreams between symbolic and message dreams is shown to be artificial. My research indicates that those texts that supported Joseph's holistic scientific approach generally selected him as the chosen brother through whom the divine secrets and mysteries of the world were transmitted to future Hebrew and Jewish generations. The popularity of Joseph and the boom in the literature about him were due to the existence of a sufficient number of Hellenistic Jews who held that their creative integration into Hellenistic culture could be successful and indeed sharpen their own identity as Jews.

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Subject: Comparative literature; Bible; Science history

Classification: 0295: Comparative literature; 0321: Bible; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences Language, literature and linguistics Hellenistic Joseph story Joseph story in received traditions Levitical tradition Midrashim Pseudepigrapha Religion and science in Mediterraen Basin Science Theories of light

Title: Through Hellenistic eyes: Joseph as scientist in post-biblical literature



Degree date: 2007

School code: 0242




ISBN: 9780549669784

Advisor: Sasson, Jack M.

University/institution: Vanderbilt University

University location: United States -- Tennessee

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 11 of 25

Probing the philosophical beliefs of instructional design faculty and professionals

Author: Sheehan, Michael D.

Publication info: University of South Alabama, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2009. 3388736.


Abstract: The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the philosophical beliefs of instructional designers. I used the Philosophy of Social Science Inventory to collect information about the ontological, epistemological, axiological, and methodological beliefs of my participants. I probed 20 distinct philosophical beliefs. My participants included 152 instructional design faculty members and 118 non-faculty professionals. Both sample groups contained almost equal numbers of men and women. Both ranged in age from about 22 to 78 with a mean of around 48. Both were predominately Caucasian, and averaged around 13 years of experience. I first explored my data using factor and cluster analyses. The cluster analysis identified two naturally formed groups divergent on the 20 philosophical beliefs and differing in demographic composition. I conducted multiple analyses of variance to compare the philosophical beliefs of instructional design faculty and non-faculty professionals. In none of the cases was there a statistically significant difference between the two samples. Philosophical belief score means were quite moderate. The exceptions to that rule were physicalism, epistemological objectivity, empiricism, and critical methodology, which were less widely accepted; and mixed methodology, which received a great deal of support. The collective philosophical

profile of instructional designers could reasonably be described as pragmatic. To investigate beliefs as a function of research method preference, I conducted a series of multi-way analyses of variance. Each included sample (faculty or non-faculty) and methodological identification (quantitative, qualitative, mixed, or other) as fixed factors. There were statistically significant method preference main effects in 14 of the 20 analyses, three cases of sample main effects, and two cases of interaction effects. The results generally supported philosophical belief characterizations found in the literature. However, participants did not exhibit the level of polarity of beliefs suggested by literature. Finally I evaluated relationships between philosophical beliefs and collected demographic data. I ran regression analyses where demographic data were numerical, and analyses of variance where categorical. Aside from gender, the singular effect of demographic variables on philosophical beliefs was small. A combination of ethnicity, gender, research preference and level of education, however, might prove a powerful predictor of philosophical beliefs.

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Subject: Epistemology; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy; Instructional Design; Education philosophy

Classification: 0393: Epistemology; 0402: Philosophy of Science; 0422: Philosophy; 0447: Instructional Design; 0998: Education philosophy

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Education Epistemology Faculty Instructional Instructional design Philosophy Philosophy of science Professionals

Title: Probing the philosophical beliefs of instructional design faculty and professionals



Degree date: 2009

School code: 0491




ISBN: 9781109551204

Advisor: Johnson, R. Burke

University/institution: University of South Alabama

University location: United States -- Alabama

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 12 of 25

A ‘Fantastical’ Experiment: Motivations, Practice, and Conflict in the History of Nuclear Transplantation, 1925–1970

Author: Crowe, Nathan Paul

Publication info: University of Minnesota, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2011. 3490639.


Abstract: In 1952, Robert Briggs and Thomas King published a paper announcing the development of a new technique, nuclear transplantation, which could have profound consequences in the study of developmental biology. Forty-four years later, in 1996, researchers in Scotland used a variation of nuclear transplantation to produce a cloned sheep. The sheep was named Dolly and became a cultural, scientific, and controversial symbol for biology's successes and promises. Since then, the historical relevance of nuclear transplantation has always been its connection to the successful cloning of Dolly. I argue in this dissertation, however, that the history of nuclear transplantation before Dolly offers valuable insights into the history of developmental biology, genetics, cancer research, and bioethics. As essentially a biography of the technique, my narrative weaves together these often distinct historiographical traditions, showing the intricate institutional and intellectual connections between them. Though the first successful nuclear transplantation in vertebrates occurred in the early 1950s, this dissertation traces back the relevant historical origins to the early 1920s with the development of the cancer research center in which Briggs and his colleagues eventually worked out nuclear transplantation. In subsequent chapters this dissertation follows the development of the technique and the successes and controversies that it encountered in the 1950s related to the work of John Gurdon. From there, I show how nuclear transplantation moved from strictly a laboratory discussion to a cultural phenomenon related to human cloning in the 1960s when Nobel Laureate Joshua Lederberg helped co-opt nuclear transplantation to fuel democratic discussion over the direction of biological research.

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Subject: Philosophy of Science; Evolution and Development; Science history

Classification: 0402: Philosophy of Science; 0412: Evolution and Development; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences Biological sciences Bioethics Cancer Cloning Developmental biology Nuclear transfer Nuclear transplantation

Title: A ‘Fantastical’ Experiment: Motivations, Practice, and Conflict in the History of Nuclear Transplantation, 1925–1970



Degree date: 2011

School code: 0130


Place of publication: Ann Ar bor


ISBN: 9781267117656

Advisor: Borrello, Mark E.

Committee member: Kohlstedt, Sally G.; Love, Alan C.; Tobbell, Dominique; Waters, C. Kenneth

University/institution: University of Minnesota

Department: History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

University location: United States -- Minnesota

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 13 of 25

The lighthouse and the observatory: Islam, authority, and cultures of astronomy in late Ottoman Egypt

Author: Stolz, Daniel A.

Publication info: Princeton University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2013. 3597566.


Abstract: This dissertation is a history of astronomy in three cultural locations in late Ottoman Egypt: the scholarly culture of Muslim 'ulamā', the state institution of the Viceregal Observatory, and the Arabic press. Through an interwoven history of these cultures, the dissertation sheds light on the changing relationship between science, state, and Islam in a transformative period for all three. By doing so, it addresses current debates in the history of Islamic authority, the history of science in the modern Middle

East, and the history of science in a global context. Chapters One and Three focus on the continuity of Islamic astronomy among traditionally educated Muslim scholars ( 'ulamā' ). These chapters demonstrate the social and cultural relevance of Islamic astronomy in late Ottoman Egypt, and they uncover ways in which 'ulamā' were able to integrate new astronomical methods and technologies into this tradition of knowledge. Chapters Two and Five examine the history of the Viceregal Observatory in Cairo and those associated with it, first under the rule of the Ottoman Viceroys and subsequently under British administration. These chapters relate the emergence of new types of astronomical knowledge and practices in late Ottoman Egypt to a new relationship between science and the state. The shaping of scientific knowledge in late Ottoman Egypt was not, however, confined to the rarefied spaces of scholarly discourse and state observatories. Public debates were equally crucial, especially when it came to defining new astronomical knowledge as a kind of Islamic knowledge. Chapter Four argues that the cultural and political agendas of those who shaped the emerging Arabic press in this period generally led them to erase the possibility of an Islamic science grounded in the tradition of science among the ulama. Instead, they opted to legitimize new astronomy through the reinterpretation of "Sharia texts." While the reconciliation of revealed knowledge with natural knowledge had precedent in Islamic tradition, it bore different implications when the people responsible for these kinds of knowledge were newly distinct from each other. The final chapter of the dissertation continues to examine public debates about astronomy. It focuses on changing conceptions of certain Islamic practices in early twentieth-century Egypt in light of the role played by the Viceregal Observatory in the regulation of timekeeping. Drawing together the three cultures of astronomy historicized in this dissertation, the chapter shows how both the post-Ottoman state and the Islamic reformers of the Arabic press sought to implement new kinds of unity in the core Islamic practices of prayer and fasting.

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Subject: Religion; African history; Middle Eastern history; Islamic Studies; Science history

Classification: 0318: Religion; 0331: African history; 0333: Middle Eastern history; 0512: Islamic Studies; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences Astronomy Authority Egypt Islam Modern Ottoman

Title: The lighthouse and the observatory: Islam, authority, and cultures of astronomy in late Ottoman Egypt



Degree date: 2013

School code: 0181




ISBN: 9781303456923

Advisor: Zaman, Muhammad Qasim

Committee member: Cook, Michael A.; Gordin, Michael D.; Hanioglu, M. Sukru

University/institution: Princeton University

Department: Near Eastern Studies

University location: United States -- New Jersey

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English






Database: ProQuest Dissertations & These s Global

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Document 14 of 25

Engineering the Nile: Irrigation and the British Empire in Egypt, 1882-1914

Author: Cookson-Hills, Claire Jean

Publication info: Queen's University (Canada), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2013. NS27924.


Abstract: This thesis examines technological and social mechanisms of British imperial water control as created and managed by British irrigation engineers in Egypt between 1882 and 1914. In the aftermath of the British military conquest of the Ottoman colony, irrigation engineering was lauded as a way to make Egypt prosperous and financially solvent through the growth and sale of cash-crop cotton on the global market. The irrigation engineers who transferred into Egypt in the wake of the British occupation to enact this revivification of irrigation were

Indian-experienced military engineers; these Royal Engineers officers and their British superiors in Egypt and the Foreign Office enacted the principles of late nineteenth century liberal economy, including the construction of large-scale public works. The British engineers imported their Indian experiences when they transferred to the Egyptian Irrigation Department. Their engineering epistemologies included economic frugality, an emphasis and reliance on hydraulic science, and skepticism of the viability of local irrigation practices. Permanent dams were built or reconstructed across the Nile at Cairo (Delta Barrage, 1887–1890) and at Aswan (Aswan Dam, 1898-1902). With these structures, among other major projects, the engineers created a system of water control that extended their abilities to manage the Nile and local irrigation practices. Always chaotic, contingent, and geographically and temporally specific, the engineers forced Egyptian peasants, cash crop cotton, and the Nile into the interconnected web of politics, economics, and science that was transnational British imperialism.

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Subject: European history; Science history

Classification: 0335: European history; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Egypt Irrigation

Title: Engineering the Nile: Irrigation and the British Empire in Egypt, 1882-1914



Degree date: 2013

School code: 0283




ISBN: 9780499279248

Advisor: Otter, Sandra den

University/institution: Queen's University (Canada)

Department: History


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English


Dissertation/thesis number: NS27924





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Document 15 of 25

Chemical analysis and experts in contemporary Spain: Antonio Casares Rodríguez (1812-1888) and José Gil Casares (1866-1961)

Author: Suay Matallana, Ignacio

Publication info: Universitat de Valencia (Spain), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2014. 3630067.


Abstract: This thesis is a study on social and cultural history of science focused on two contemporary Spanish chemists: Antonio Casares-Rodríguez (1812-1888) and José Casares-Gil (1866-1961). It is not just a biography of both scientists but a research on the creation, development and consolidation of experts in chemical analysis in contemporary Spain. The thesis studies several aspects of the biography of both chemists. It develops five main issues: scientific families, travels of learning, scientific textbooks, sites of chemistry, and scientific controversies. The thesis explores how those five key elements contribute to the construction of scientific authority and expertise in chemical analysis in contemporary Spain.

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Matallana%2C+Ignacio&rft.aulast=Suay+Matallana&rft.aufirst=Ignacio&rft.date=2014-01-01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&rft.isbn=9781321077377&rft.btitle=&rft.title=Chemical+analysis+and+experts+in+contemporary+Spain%3A+Antonio+Casares+Rodr%C3%ADguez+%281812-1888%29+and+Jos%C3%A9+Gil+Casares+%281866-1961%29&rft.issn=&rft_id=info:doi/

Subject: European history; Science history

Classification: 0335: European history; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Casares, Jose Gil Chemical analysis Rodriguez, Antonio Casares Scientific sxperts Spain

Title: Chemical analysis and experts in contemporary Spain: Antonio Casares Rodríguez (1812-1888) and José Gil Casares (1866-1961)



Degree date: 2014

School code: 5871




ISBN: 9781321077377

Advisor: Ber tomeu Sanchez, Jose Ramon

Committee member: Barona Vilar, Josep Luis; Garcia Belmar, Antonio; Nieto-Galan, Agusti

University/institution: Universitat de Valencia (Spain)

Department: Institut d'Historia de la Medicina i de la Ciencia Lopez Pinero

University location: Spain

Degree: Dr.


Language: Spanish







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Document 16 of 25

Science-Market Analogies: A Philosophical Examination

Author: Thicke, Michael

Publication info: University of Toronto (Canada), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10189700.


Abstract: Many philosophers have made analogies between science and the market, or between scientists and entrepreneurs. These analogies are used to buttress claims about how science ought to be organized: that science ought to be administered or regulated, or that science must be autonomous. This dissertation examines and evaluates market analogies, and ways in which the changing organization of science reflects those analogies. In the first chapter I examine Michael Polanyi's dispute with John Desmond Bernal over whether science ought to be centrally controlled, and I argue that Polanyi's account of spontaneous order in science fails. In the second I compare Philip Kitcher's model of scientist-entrepreneurs with the general equilibrium model of Arrow and Debreu and conclude that Kitcher's model lacks crucial features of the latter. In the third chapter I examine Alan Walstad's Austrian account of science and argue that his analogy fails because citations fail to fulfill all of the important functions of money in the traditional economy. In the fourth chapter I evaluate science from the perspective of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) and conclude that science is not epistemically efficient in the way that the EMH claims markets are, and then I examine ways in which science might be made more epistemically efficient through the use of prediction markets. In the final chapter I consider how, through commodification, science is becoming more like the market, and I show that this change in the organization of science allows for increased scientific collaboration, but also facilitates the commercialization of science and all of its associated dangers.


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Subject: Epistemology; Philosophy of Science; Economic theory

Classification: 0393: Epistemology; 0402: Philosophy of Science; 0511: Economic theory

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences Economic epistemology Economics of science Social epistemology

Title: Science-Market Analogies: A Philosophical Examination



Degree date: 2016

School code: 0779




ISBN: 9781369854022

Advisor: Berkovitz, Joseph

Committee member: Blute, Marion; Peacock, Mark

University/institution: University of Toronto (Canada)

Department: History and Philosophy of Science and Technology


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 17 of 25

Mind as Theory Engine: Causation, Explanation and Time

Author: Pacer, Michael D.

Publication info: University of California, Berkeley, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10194103.


Abstract: Humans build theories out of the data we observe, and out of those theories arise wonders. The most powerful theories are causal theories, which organise data into actionable structures. Causal theories make explicit claims about the structure of the world: what entities and processes exist in it, which of these relate to one another and in what form those relations consist. We can use causal theories to induce new generalisations about the world (in the form of particular models or other causal theories) and to explain particular occurrences. This allows rapidly disseminating causal information throughout our cognitive communities. Causal theories and the explanations derived from them guide decisions we make, including where and when to look for more data, completing the cycle. Causal theories play a ubiquitous and potent role in everyday life, in formal pursuit of them in the sciences, and through their applications in medicine, technology and industry. Given this, the rarity of analyses that attempt to characterise causal theories and their uses in general, computational terms is surprising. Only in recent

years has there been a substantial refinement of our models of causal induction due to work by computational cognitive scientists — the interdisciplinary tradition out of which which this dissertation originates. And even so, many issues related to causal theories have been left unattended; three features in particular merit much greater attention from a computational perspective: generating and evaluating explanation, the role of simplicity in explanation choice, and continuous-time causal induction. I aim to redress this situation with this dissertation. In Chapter 0, I introduce the primary paradigms from computational cognitive science – computational level analysis and rational analysis – that govern my research. In Chapter 1, I study formal theories of causal explanation in Bayesian networks by comparing the explanations the generate and evaluate to human judgements about the same systems. No one model of causal explanation captures the pattern of human judgements, though the intuitive hypothesis, that the most probable a posteriori explanation is the best performs worst of the models evaluated. I conclude that the premise of finding model for all of human causal explanation (even in this limited domain) is flawed; the research programme should be refined to consider the features of formal models and how well they capture our explanatory practices as they vary between individuals and circumstances. One feature not expressed in these models explicitly but that has been shown to matter for human explanation is simplicity. Chapter 2 considers the problem of simplicity in human causal explanation choice in a series of four experiments. I study what makes an explanation simple (whether it is the number of causes invoked in or the number of assumptions made by an explanation), how simplicity concerns are traded off against data-fit, which cognitive consequences arise from choosing simpler explanations when the data does not fit, and why people prefer simpler explanations. In Chapter 3, I change the focus from studying causal explanation to causal induction — in particular, I develop a framework for continuous time causal theories (CTCTS). A CTCT defines a generative probabilistic framework for other

generative probabilistic models of causal systems, where the data in those systems expressed in terms of continuous time. Chapter 3 is the most interdisciplinary piece of my dissertation, accordingly it begins by reviewing a number of topics: the history of theories of causal induction within philosophy, statistics and medicine; empirical work on causal induction in cognitive science, focusing on issues related to causal induction with temporal data; conceptual issues surrounding the formal definition of time, data, and causal models; and probabilistic graphical models, causal theories, and stochastic processes. I then introduce the desiderata for the CTCT framework and how those criteria are met. I then demonstrate the power of CTCTS by using them to analyse five sets of experiments (some new and some derived from the literature) on human causal induction with temporal data. Bookending each experiment and the model applied to it is are case from medical history that illustrate a real-world instance of the variety of problem being solved in the section; the opening discussion describes the case and why it fits the problem structure of the model used to analyse the experimental results and the closing discussion illustrates aspects of the case omitted from the initial discussion that complicate the model and fit better with the model introduced in the next section. Then, I discuss ways to incorporate other advances in probabilistic programming, generative theories and stochastic processes into the CTCT framework, identify potential applications with specific focus on mechanisms and feedback loops, and conclude by analysing the centrality of temporal information in the study of the mind more generally. Excepting the supporting appendices and bibliography that end the dissertation, I conclude in two parts. First, in Chapter 4, I analyse issues at the intersection of three of the main themes of my work: namely, (causal) explanation, (causal) induction and time. This proceeds by examining these topics first in pairs and then as a whole. Following that, is Chapter 5, an epilogue that clarifies the interpretations and intended meanings of the “Mind as Theory Engine” metaphor as it applies to human cognition.

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Subject: Philosophy of Science; Cognitive psychology; Artificial intelligence

Classification: 0402: Philosophy of Science; 0633: Cognitive psychology; 0800: Artificial intelligence

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Applied sciences Psychology Bayesian networks Causal theories Computational cognitive science Continuous time Induction Probabilistic graphical models

Title: Mind as Theory Engine: Causation, Explanation and Time



Degree date: 2016

School code: 0028




ISBN: 9781369847475

Advisor: Griffiths, Tom Lombrozo, Tania

Committee member: Campbell, John; Gopnik, Alison

University/institution: University of California, Berkeley

Department: Psychology


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English






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Document 18 of 25

Modelling Inferences in Historical Linguistics

Author: Okayasu, Emi

Publication info: The University of Wisconsin - Madison, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10280880.


Abstract: The goal of this dissertation is, broadly, to justify inferences made by historical linguists using the Comparative Method, which fall into three categories: (1) inferring whether two or more languages belong to the same family (family grouping), (2) inferring what characters a proto-language might have had on the basis of the characters of its descendant languages (proto-form reconstruction), and (3) inferring how languages within a family are related to each other (subgrouping). In Chapter 1, I address the question of family grouping, and I show that the traditional standard of evidence for establishing language families is too onerous. I propose an alternate way of evaluating evidence in favor of subgrouping using a likelihood model based on Sober and Steel (2015). In Chapter 2, I discuss proto-form

reconstruction, focusing on two main Rules of Thumb that linguists use to infer unattested ancestral character states, economy and directionality . I show that the standard justification of economy falls short, but that a simple Markovian model of character evolution suffices to justify many of the kinds of reconstructions made on the basis of economy . The second Rule of Thumb, directionality , is based on the assumption that information about other unrelated language lineages can be brought to bear on the lineage whose ancestral character the comparativist is reconstructing. I use the Principle of the Common Cause to show that the transfer of information from one group of lineages to another unrelated lineage can be justified by the existence of some common cause, such as an articulatory mechanism common to all humans. In Chapter 3, I discuss some issues relating to the problem of subgrouping, which is traditionally construed as picking the best tree topology for a family of languages. First, I discuss what I call the “double dipping problem” which I propose can be solved by properly understanding the relationship between subgrouping and proto-form reconstruction. Then, I show how traditional subgrouping might be justified similarly to cladistic parsimony , an analogous principle from biological phylogenetics, and finally, I consider an alternate model for representing the history of a language family, known as historical glottometry .

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Subject: Linguistics; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy

Classification: 0290: Linguistics; 0402: Philosophy of Science; 0422: Philosophy

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Philosophy, religion and theology Comparative method Historical linguistics Philosophy of linguistics Philosophy of science

Title: Modelling Inferences in Historical Linguistics



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0262




ISBN: 9781369762501

Advisor: Sober, Elliott R.

Committee member: Hausman, Dan; Li, Yafei; Mackay, John; Salmons, Joseph

University/institution: The University of Wisconsin - Madison

Department: Philosophy

University location: United States -- Wisconsin

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 19 of 25

In This Together: Consubstantial Ethos in Writing in the Sciences Classrooms

Author: Atwell, Justin Michael

Publication info: North Dakota State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10269466.


Abstract: “In This Together: Consubstantial Ethos in Writing in the Sciences Classrooms” explores the ethos of instructors tasked with instructing STEM students how to write in the sciences . Building on the importance of ethos in education and Dale Sullivan’s foregrounding of the importance of consubstantial ethos in building effective communicative acts, this study sought to determine how student and instructor perceptions of ethos were similar and dissimilar to determine if there was a sense that we were truly “in this together” as Sullivan claims is necessary. For this mixed-methods study, I distributed surveys to students as they entered and exited the course. Student surveys inquired about attitudes and beliefs about previous English courses, the trajectory of the course, the overall worth of English courses, and their roles within the course. Instructor surveys, in turn, asked mirrored questions to see how instructors perceived students’ attitudes and beliefs towards the course, the practice of writing, and WAC/WID and English courses more broadly. Encouragingly, the majority of students reported seeing a value to English courses, but this worth was primarily seen as emerging from two components: 1) the content of the course and 2) student perceptions of the instructor—both, this project argues, are closely tied to ethos. As such, the final two chapters of the project

suggest adjustments to foster optimal ethos for Writing in the Sciences courses by introducing more direct teaching of Writing Studies theory in such courses and implementing assignments such as the Forum Analysis and Popular Discourse Report that encourage students to critically analyze the work of experts writing in their fields.

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Subject: Ethics; Rhetoric; Education philosophy

Classification: 0394: Ethics; 0681: Rhetoric; 0998: Education philosophy

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Philosophy, religion and theology Education Ethos Pedagogy Writing across the curriculum Writing in the disciplines Writing in the sciences

Title: In This Together: Consubstantial Ethos in Writing in the Sciences Classrooms



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0157




ISBN: 9781369788013

Advisor: Mara, Miriam

Committee member: Momsen, Jennifer; Rupiper Taggart, Amy; Sullivan, Dale

University/institution: North Dakota State University

Department: English

University location: United States -- North Dakota

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 20 of 25

Social Transformation through Art: Slow Food Ideology and the Social Protest Novel

Author: Ruggieri, Sasha Lombardi

Publication info: Salve Regina University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10283419.


Abstract: Humanities’ scholars often address the question of what it means to be human in the age of technology. Looking at our modern landscape, we observe that the twentieth century has

brought about continual change in the way the United States produces food for Americans. New technology has slowly and steadily created a food supply that many consumers deem problematic. As a result, the last couple of decades have revealed a noticeable push back on this modernized food system by the Slow Food Movement. This humanities dissertation addresses, more specifically, what does it mean to be an eater in the age of technology? An interesting place to find the answer to such a quandary is in the novel. How does fiction engage in the current cultural milieu when it comes to matters of our food? How do novelists participate in the broader cultural discourse, and how do they attempt to engage readers to be more responsive and active participants? In an attempt to answer these questions, four fictional works were selected and examined through the lens of cultural criticism. Mining for evidence of Slow Food ideology, I found that the novels explored the failings of our current industrial food system and illuminated alternative ways of interacting with our land, our animals, and our planet. I noticed several themes begin to emerge through my investigation. The novelists wrote extensively about the agricultural systems at work today, including the use of chemicals, pesticides, and genetically altered crops. There was evidence that the farmers have taken much of the abuse when it comes to industrialized methods. Whether financially or physically, farmers have suffered the greatest burden. The novels also demonstrated an undercurrent of resistance to modern agriculture through many of the attitudes, actions, and blame professed by characters. Also, the novels revealed an element of teaching through the dialogue between various well-informed characters and others who were unaware or ill informed. Another significant element was the illumination of positive examples of slowness in practice. Mindfulness, pleasure, conviviality, and community, all concepts of slow food were plentiful in the fictional works. In addition, the novels featured attempts to bring about social repair through a critique of environmental abuse and depictions of the efforts at preservation. In lively, readable, and dramatic examples the

novelists construct characters, form dialogue, and create contrasts that invigorate the current cultural discussion about our food industry. For the sensitive, active reader, these novels communicate slow food ideology and add to the modern eater’s understanding of this complex concern.

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Subject: Modern literature; Agriculture; Modern history

Classification: 0298: Modern literature; 0473: Agriculture; 0582: Modern history

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Social sciences Biological sciences Fiction Literature Novel Protest novel Slow Food

Title: Social Transformation through Art: Slow Food Ideology and the Social Protest Novel



Degree date: 2017

School code: 1211




ISBN: 9781369787528

Advisor: Cowdin, Daniel

Committee member: Combies, Patricia; Dalessio, William

University/institution: Salve Regina University

Department: Humanities

University location: United States -- Rhode Island

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 21 of 25

Social-Ecological Systems, Values, and the Science of "People Management"

Author: Piso, Zachary Amedeo

Publication info: Michigan State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10277861.


Abstract: This dissertation interrogates a shift in environmental science, policy, and management toward conceptualizing the environment as a social-ecological system. Social-ecological systems science reflects an interdisciplinary effort to understand

how individuals and communities achieve their environmental goals through the institutions that they maintain. Though the paradigmatic institutions concern economic behavior (e.g. property rights institutions), the field embraces the social sciences broadly, with contributions from sociology, anthropology, geography, political science, and so on. That said, social science is fairly narrowly conceived; leaders in the field stress that they are studying social mechanisms in order to predict and manage social behavior. In a popular textbook on the subject, Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke stress that “resource management is people management” and call for a social science of this management. Social-ecological systems scientists have generally neglected the ethics of people management—for the most part they subscribe to a fairly typical fact/value dichotomy according to which scientists describe social-ecological systems while managers and policymakers prescribe actions in light of these descriptions. Following several philosophical traditions (in particular pragmatist philosophy of science), I call attention to the ways that social-ecological systems science is value-laden. I take environmental pragmatism to provide a roadmap for conducting social-ecological systems science ethically. Environmental pragmatists stress that science is always embedded in practical problem-solving activities that presuppose particular goals for, and side constraints to, inquiry. Many traditions in the philosophy of environmental science embrace social science for the specific role of facilitating this deliberation, but these traditions do not seem to anticipate the explanatory ambitions of social sciences. This leaves unaddressed several pertinent questions about how social explanations work (i.e. how functional distinction structure inquiry), which have very practical implications for which social science disciplines should be included in a collaboration and how social and ecological knowledge should be integrated. For example, most social situations are characterized by property rights institutions, cultural traditions, political alliances, and other social institutions within the purview of particular social science disciplines, but researchers are not reflexive about whether to

explain environmental change according to one set of practices or another. The dissertation traverses the following terrain: the first chapter more carefully motivates the questions above regarding the need for ethics and the promise, but present inadequacy, of environmental pragmatism to meet this need. Chapter two attends to Dewey’s theory of inquiry, in particular the dialogical dimension of inquiry that authorizes warranted assertions. Through reflection on Daniel Bromley’s volitional pragmatism and a debate between Richard Rorty and hermeneutic social scientists, chapter three attends to the way that social science structures inquiry in order to intervene in the normative practices of a community. Chapter four analyzes social-ecological explanations in order to locate normative and evaluative assumptions that should be accountable to democratic deliberation. Finally, chapter five redescribes interdisciplinary integration as an ethical project where decisions about the centering and decentering of different sciences is as much ethical as epistemological.

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Subject: Environmental philosophy; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy; Sustainability

Classification: 0392: Environmental philosophy; 0402: Philosophy of Science; 0422: Philosophy; 0640: Sustainability

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Social sciences Environmental management Environmental philosophy Interdisciplinarity Philosophy of science Pragmatism Social-ecological systems

Title: Social-Ecological Systems, Values, and the Science of "People Management"



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0128




ISBN: 9781369774443

Advisor: Thompson, Paul B.

Committee member: O'Rourke, Michael; Powys Whyte, Kyle; Van Wieren, Gretel

University/institution: Michigan State University

Department: Philosophy

University location: United States -- Michigan

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English






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Document 22 of 25

Production and Technological Change: Ironworking in Prehistoric Ireland

Author: Garstki, Kevin J.

Publication info: The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10279331.


Abstract: The introduction of iron into Ireland during the 8th century BCE had profound influences on the organization of society, from economic and political networks to the means by which power and status were negotiated. However, the organization of iron production is still relatively poorly understood. This dissertation seeks to explore how iron technology was organized during the Early Iron Age (c. 800 – 400 BCE) and Developed Iron Age (c. 400 – 1 BCE) in Ireland, and uses this context to demonstrate that the development of new technologies can be most clearly understood by investigating the archaeological remains of production practices. Multiple levels of production were investigated in this study by compiling and synthesizing mostly unpublished excavation reports into a relational GIS database. An output from this database is an online webGIS interface which presents the multi-scalar data collected for this dissertation on iron production in these periods in Ireland. Through the evidence for iron production, this project also examines the organization of society in the Iron Age and the interconnectedness of iron technologies and the rest of social life. The application of different methods of data collection and pattern identification further illuminate the actions performed during technological activities. These actions were not only embodied by the individuals involved, at once creating meaning while recreating social life, but also were part of larger patterns of production across the Irish social landscape. Untangling the influences of technology and the products of technical practices

on society provides us with a better understanding of technology itself, while simultaneously exposing the deeply embedded nature of technology within social life as a whole.

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Subject: Archaeology

Classification: 0324: Archaeology

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences GIS Ireland Iron Age Ironworking Production Technology

Title: Production and Technological Change: Ironworking in Prehistoric Ireland



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0263




ISBN: 9781369803129

Advisor: Arnold, Bettina

Committee member: Counts, Derek B.; Malaby, Thomas M.; Richards , John D.; Richards, Patricia

University/institution: The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Department: Anthropology

University location: United States -- Wisconsin

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Collaboration in Scientific Research: Factors That Influence Effective Collaboration During a Period of Transformational Change

Author: Waruszynski, Barbara Theresa

Publication info: Royal Roads University (Canada), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10284169.


Abstract: In an era of fiscal restraint, federal science and technology organizations are promoting more advanced whole-of-government solutions to complex problems through effective intra-organizational and inter-organizational collaboration. Although the literature reveals that there are several factors which influence the effectiveness of collaborations, there remains a major gap in determining which factors affect researchers’ attitudes and behaviours to collaborate during periods of

organizational change. This ethnographic study aims to bridge this gap by: (1) identifying the factors that influence researchers’ attitudes and behaviours in scientific research collaborations; (2) establishing if these factors affect team outputs and outcomes; and (3) understanding if organizational change impacts the effectiveness of research collaborations. Theories on teamwork, collaboration, social interdependence, social systems, and organizational change are incorporated to examine effective collaboration practices in one case study. The Canadian Wood Fibre Centre (CWFC) under the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) within Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is the case under study, and is employed to understand the effectiveness of scientific research collaborations during a period of transformational change. Twenty-six participants took part in this qualitative study, including 13 researchers and 13 managers. Based on interviews with federal researchers and managers, and industry managers, and a focus group with federal managers, the findings reveal that there are several factors that influence effective collaborations: (1) collaborative culture (e.g., shared vision, governance, and values of mutual trust and respect); (2) leadership (i.e., visionary, collective, and team leadership); (3) human and financial resources; (4) team integration and synergy (i.e., shared commitment and team cohesion); (5) shared communications (e.g., face-to-face communications); and (6) interpersonal relationships that are enabled by social interdependence. The findings also suggest that the above factors positively influence the quality of collaborative team performance in the following ways: (1) ability for researchers to work in a collaborative culture through a shared vision, an established governance, and values; (2) visionary, collective, and team leadership styles that enable an integrated collaborative environment and goal attainment; (3) human and financial resources that support the right team composition and funding to successfully complete the projects; (4) team synergy for accomplishing goals and generating good quality outputs; (5) shared communications to foster greater information sharing and

trust between researchers; and (6) social interdependence to nurture relationships over time. Team viability is dependent on how well the team performed together to achieve its project goals, and if researchers trusted each other and shared information throughout the collaboration. Individual and team satisfaction is based on participants’ overall contentment (individually and as a team) in producing scientific or client-related outputs and outcomes. This study has also shown that organizational changes have an impact on the factors that influence effective collaboration. The findings suggest that effective collaboration is contingent on researchers’ adaptability to organizational change. Although the transformation of the forest sector generally fostered positive change, there were specific factors of organizational change that challenged the effectiveness of collaborations. These factors include: (1) the lack of integrated research programs and processes between the CWFC and its main industry partner; (2) new government administrative processes that impacted scientific productivity; and (3) the lack of face-to-face interactions due to government travel restrictions. Based on the literature review and this doctoral study, a new model on collaboration is proposed and provides a list of factors that are considered to be important in facilitating effective collaboration. Additional research is required to better unfold the interrelationships between these factors and how their interrelationships impact effective collaboration, particularly during periods of organizational change. Recommendations are put forward on how to improve collaboration in the workplace and are intended to inform departmental policies, practices, and programs on ways to enable better collaboration. Recommendations are also suggested for the conduct of future research on team science and propose ways to improve collaboration in scientific research.

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Subject: Social research; Public administration; Organizational behavior

Classification: 0344: Social research; 0617: Public administration; 0703: Organizational behavior

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Collaboration and teamwork Collective leadership Organizational culture Scientific research Social interdependence Transformational/organizational change

Title: Collaboration in Scientific Research: Factors That Influence Effective Collaboration During a Period of Transformational Change



Degree date: 2017

School code: 1313




ISBN: 9781369821826

Advisor: Belcher, Brian

Committee member: Belcher, Brian; Beyerlein, Michael; Schissel, Wendy

University/institution: Royal Roads University (Canada)

Department: Interdisciplinary Studies


Degree: D.Soc.Sc.


Language: English







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Darwin, Design, and Dysteleology: A Critical Evaluation of William Dembski and Francisco Ayala on the Problem of Suboptimal Design

Author: Berhow, Michael Caryl

Publication info: The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10282835.


Abstract: This dissertation is a critical evaluation of two modern thinkers debating the idea of intelligent design (ID), William Dembski and Francisco Ayala. Specifically, it focuses on Ayala's major theological critique of intelligent design, namely, the problem of dysteleology. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the problem of dysteleology as it relates to biology and offers a methodology for evaluating each thinker’s resolution to this

problem. Chapter 2 examines Ayala's scientific critique of ID, and chapter 3 looks at Ayala's theological critique of ID. Chapter 4 summarizes Dembski's method for detecting design, and chapter 5 outlines Dembski's critiques of naturalism and materialism as well as his information-theoretic account of reality. Finally, chapter 6 analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of Ayala’s proposal that Darwin is a gift to theology in light of Dembski’s information-theoretic account of reality.

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Subject: Religion; Philosophy

Classification: 0322: Religion; 0322: Philosophy

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Ayala Darwin Dembski Information Intelligent design Teleology

Title: Darwin, Design, and Dysteleology: A Critical Evaluation of William Dembski and Francisco Ayala on the Problem of Suboptimal Design



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0207




ISBN: 9781369825671

Advisor: Cabal, Theodore J.

Committee member: Blount, Douglas K.; Parker III, James A.

University/institution: The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Department: Theology

University location: United States -- Kentucky

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Growing Past Ourselves: Toward a Pedagogy of Change Through the Evolutionary Epistemology and Developmental Teleology of Charles Sanders Peirce

Author: Cashmore, Sarah Elizabeth

Publication info: University of Toronto (Canada), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10196178.


Abstract: Charles Sanders Peirce defends an approach to thought in which mind and inquiry are subject to ongoing evolution

through the process of interpreting signs. This dissertation examines one often-overlooked element of Peirce’s semiotics, the role of evolutionary chance, in the growth and development of ideas. Further, it contrasts his evolutionary approach with the computational framework that is common in educational representations of learning used today. The Ontario Ministry of Education promotes "student-centred" teaching strategies, which are said to be tailored to the needs of diverse students. One such popular approach, Differentiated Instruction (DI), derives at least part of its understanding of intellectual diversity from Howard Gardner’s intelligence framework, Multiple Intelligence (MI) theory. MI theory suggests that intelligence is segmented into several distinct and universal computational modalities. However, studies in evolutionary biology support Peirce’s more reflexive principles that intelligence does not reside in the brain as MI theory suggests, but is a process that occurs through the interrelation between an organism and its environment. This suggests that intelligence is highly individualized and subject to ongoing change and evolution. A challenge is presented that intelligence is more personal and less universal than the MI account allows, and further points to the limitation of certain kinds of research questions to account for the interconnectivity and individualism of ongoing evolution. In suggesting an inquiry framework in which ongoing evolution is acknowledged, I turn to the work of Charles Sanders Peirce. Specifically, I look at his conception of the role of chance to defend an epistemology and teleology wherein living beings are not seen as growing along a fixed trajectory but pursue ends that change as they do. In light of this alternative evolutionary framework, teachers and researchers may change their role from one of mere stewardship, carrying students from one stage of understanding to the next in predetermined paths, to one of celebration, where student growth is fostered tentatively and in anticipation of new forms of knowledge that may be encountered in the classroom.

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Subject: Epistemology; Philosophy of Science; Education philosophy

Classification: 0393: Epistemology; 0402: Philosophy of Science; 0998: Education philosophy

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Education Evo devo Peirce, Charles Sanders Philosophy of evolution Theory of mind Transactionalism

Title: Growing Past Ourselves: Toward a Pedagogy of Change Through the Evolutionary Epistemology and Developmental Teleology of Charles Sanders Peirce



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0779




ISBN: 9781369854640

Advisor: Bredo, Eric

Committee member: Bialystok, Lauren; Boler, Megan; Garrison, Jim; Portelli, John; Trifonas, Peter

University/institution: University of Toronto (Canada)

Department: Social Justice Education


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English




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