Search results for "wonder"
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Una ciencia admirable: filosofía y admiración en Descartes
2021
RESUMEN Aunque Descartes pretende hablar de cuestiones morales en general, y de las pasiones en particular, como si nadie hubiera escrito antes sobre ellas, lo cierto es que, en el caso de la admiración, es clara su referencia al mundo antiguo. En concreto, en este caso el pensador francés se sitúa críticamente en contra de la postura aristotélica, que entiende la admiración como el inicio de la filosofía. Frente a la propuesta clásica, que convierte dicha emoción en el motor permanente de la investigación de las primeras causas, para Descartes la curiosidad excesiva y el estupor del asombro son rechazables. No obstante, algunos han señalado el carácter ambivalente de las declaraciones cart…
Gödel and the Blind Watchmaker
2015
While accepting that contingency is key to biological evolution, we wonder how much need there is for it. It is extremely difficult to talk about trends in evolution, but the fact remains that they are found here and there when evolutionary experiments are repeated. But we should ask, for example, whether there is an unavoidable tendency of life towards progressive complexity . This chapter deals with certain theoretical considerations from Logic and Computing on the conditions necessary to formulate a predictive evolutionary theory .
Todo proceso creativo no es más que una pregunta."Nosotras, territorio que habla" : madres ante la impunidad y los crímenes de estado en Colombia
2019
“Nosotras. Territorio que habla” es la materialización creativa de la necesidad de denunciar, de testimoniar, de reflexionar desde la propia voz de tres madres, Luz Marina Bernal, María Ubilerma Sanabria y Lucero Carmona, cuyos hijos fueron ejecutados por el ejército colombiano entre el 2007 y el 2008. En este libro ellas comparten su experiencia de tantos años de injusticia. El relato de tan cruento capítulo en la historia de la violencia de un país, lo contamos a través del archivo personal de estas mujeres, de la necesidad de saber y de reclamar justicia, de la investigación, la denuncia, el posicionamiento político y el análisis común. Queremos compartir cómo está siendo esta experienci…
Cities facing the Wild
2021
Untamed ecosystems and plots of wild nature increasingly constitute large parts of contemporary urban spaces. They are often the unbidden result of a long-standing lack of maintenance as well as of the uncontrolled flourishing of weeds produced by the pesticide absolute ban. But they are also something more. Many recently implemented urban open spaces deal with wild nature to solve some of the most urgent tasks of the contemporary cities: reclaiming areas fallen into disuse, designing sustainable infrastructures, revitalizing valuable public spaces, enhancing the ecological footprint of new developments, suggesting new practices and social ritual, reducing management costs, fighting climate…
The Power of Science Communication
2014
The study will investigate the concepts of science communication and its benefits. Being good communicators in general will help scientists to be better science communicators in order to: • help the public understand science as part of their real lives, • see not only the importance of the science and its source of pleasure and wonder, but also to be able to make decisions about it as citizens, policymakers, funders, etc. • help in educating citizenry, concerned about the threats facing our planet to better shape the direction of political and policy decisions, because how scientists communicate this information may have measurable conservation impacts on the future of our planet. More than…
Haunted Spaces in Twenty-First Century British Nature Writing
2020
Over the past three decades, the concept of ‘enchantment’ has increasingly been used in literary and cultural studies to investigate how a sense of wonder enables us to transcend the everyday, forg...
Florence Nightingale and the Spanish nursing school of Santa Isabel De Hungría (1896).
2021
PURPOSE The Spanish surgeon Federico Rubio-Gali worked at St. Thomas Hospital in England at the time when Florence Nightingale founded the Nightingale Training School for Nurses (1860). Apparently, he was quite aware of Nightingale's nursing work and expertise and it is known that founded the first Spanish nursing school, in Madrid, in 1896. This led us to wonder if the emergence of his school was purely by chance or was connected to what its founder learned in England. Likely, this learned knowledge led him to apply Nightingale's ideas and to put them into practice in his institution. METHODS We used content analysis techniques and developed categories and subcategories to search for ideol…
Just in case, just in time, or just don't bother? Assessment of one-shot library instruction with follow-up workshops
2015
Published version from the journal: LIBER Quarterly. Available from the publisher at: http://liber.library.uu.nl/index.php/lq/article/view/URN%3ANBN%3ANL%3AUI%3A10-1-116866 This article examines if the timing of library instruction courses is an important part of how students experience library instruction as a means of developing information literacy skills. Two student groups, belonging to different academic subjects, have received the same training and the same assessment questionnaire afterwards. One of the groups was in the middle of writing their student thesis as a part of their final year of their bachelor degree work, the other group consisted of different subjects within the human…
Hilbert’s Legacy: Projecting the Future and Assessing the Past at the 1946 Princeton Bicentennial Conference
2018
Saunders Mac Lane on Solomon Lefschetz (Mac Lane 1989, 220): In 1940 when he was writing his second book on topology, [Lefschetz] sent drafts of one section up to Whitney and Mac Lane at Harvard. The drafts were incorrect, we wrote back saying so – and every day for the next seven or eight days we received a new message from Lefschetz, with a new proposed version. It is no wonder that the local ditty about Lefschetz ran as follows: Here’s to Lefschetz, Solomon L Ir-re-pres-si-ble as hell When he’s at last beneath the sod He’ll then begin to heckle God.
El ‘relato maravilloso’ como expresión mítica de la presencia o ausencia divina
2020
El relato maravilloso constituye un recurso eficaz que el mito proporciona a las sociedades antiguas para articular y dar explicación a la relación del hombre con la naturaleza y a la presencia o ausencia de la protección divina. The ‘wonderful story ’constitutes an effective resource that myth provides to ancient societies to articulate and explain man’s relationship with nature and the presence or absence of divine protection.