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... would be one that was comprehensive and unambiguous, and which made it possible to distinguish statements which were true by definition (given the assumptions which define the field of interest) from those which were true as a matter of fact. Gellner writes that he is unsure whether the notion of id ...
... would be one that was comprehensive and unambiguous, and which made it possible to distinguish statements which were true by definition (given the assumptions which define the field of interest) from those which were true as a matter of fact. Gellner writes that he is unsure whether the notion of id ...
Enhancement-Genetic-and-Cosmetic
... can’t afford? – We are used to inequality wrt wealth – In principle wealth can be redistributed ...
... can’t afford? – We are used to inequality wrt wealth – In principle wealth can be redistributed ...
Nutrition & Fitness - Centerville Public Schools / Homepage
... (smell of baked cookies) • Often connected to memories and feelings • Hunger-the body’s physical need for food. • Example: Dehydration, Diabetic ...
... (smell of baked cookies) • Often connected to memories and feelings • Hunger-the body’s physical need for food. • Example: Dehydration, Diabetic ...
power point notes for essay - Parkway C-2
... (smell of baked cookies) • Often connected to memories and feelings • Hunger-the body’s physical need for food. • Example: Dehydration, Diabetic ...
... (smell of baked cookies) • Often connected to memories and feelings • Hunger-the body’s physical need for food. • Example: Dehydration, Diabetic ...
Naturalisms and Antinaturalisms
... 19th century German historicism, according to which every age must be understood in its own terms. Winch explicitly cited Lessing in his frontispiece "...the same moral actions do not always have the same names, and it is unjust to give any action a different name from that which it used to bear in ...
... 19th century German historicism, according to which every age must be understood in its own terms. Winch explicitly cited Lessing in his frontispiece "...the same moral actions do not always have the same names, and it is unjust to give any action a different name from that which it used to bear in ...
Models of Evolutionary Dynamics
... Note that evolutionary rates here are not proportional to population densities. ...
... Note that evolutionary rates here are not proportional to population densities. ...
Evolutionary Psychology Why Genes Still Matter
... because genetic variation is a prerequisite for natural selection. Their disagreement with Tooby and Cosmides may simply be one of semantics. Cochran and Harpending do not offer a clear conceptual definition of what constitutes an important adaptation. There is little doubt that individual differenc ...
... because genetic variation is a prerequisite for natural selection. Their disagreement with Tooby and Cosmides may simply be one of semantics. Cochran and Harpending do not offer a clear conceptual definition of what constitutes an important adaptation. There is little doubt that individual differenc ...
York: Academic Press, 1982, 212 pp. $19.50
... Mid-American Review of Sociology and it seems to suggest a rather thin logic in which "explanation" is identified with "prediction." But Horwitz should not be judged too harshly for this. All preliminary attempts to bring theoretical meaning and coherence to comparative-historical data must suffer ...
... Mid-American Review of Sociology and it seems to suggest a rather thin logic in which "explanation" is identified with "prediction." But Horwitz should not be judged too harshly for this. All preliminary attempts to bring theoretical meaning and coherence to comparative-historical data must suffer ...
Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts
... reason to eschew talk of social evolution when it is articulated as an underdeveloped theory of mimetics; however, rigorous models of social evolution do exist. The mathematical models developed by Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson (2005) in order to explain the evolution of cooperation and the transm ...
... reason to eschew talk of social evolution when it is articulated as an underdeveloped theory of mimetics; however, rigorous models of social evolution do exist. The mathematical models developed by Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson (2005) in order to explain the evolution of cooperation and the transm ...
Family Definitions
... A group of people (related or unrelated) who are dependent on one another, support each other, and love each other unconditionally. A group of people who share a bond and are connected through a web of experiences, values, emotions, and a fostered culture. This unit does not necessarily have to be t ...
... A group of people (related or unrelated) who are dependent on one another, support each other, and love each other unconditionally. A group of people who share a bond and are connected through a web of experiences, values, emotions, and a fostered culture. This unit does not necessarily have to be t ...
The Civil Sphere By Jeffrey C. Alexander Publisher: Oxford
... regulation or trade policy, but rather the sort that urges economies to adopt certain basic institutions and to have a vision of the harmonious working of a particular articulation of state and market, under the aegis of a complementary social philosophy to which all parties attest. The weakness of ...
... regulation or trade policy, but rather the sort that urges economies to adopt certain basic institutions and to have a vision of the harmonious working of a particular articulation of state and market, under the aegis of a complementary social philosophy to which all parties attest. The weakness of ...
Economic man and selfish genes - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
... standard welfare framework due to the intractable difficulty of multiple equilibria in the presence of interdependent utility functions. The basic motivation of the NWE was to make policy recommendations without making interpersonal comparisons of utility. The goal was to make economics a positive s ...
... standard welfare framework due to the intractable difficulty of multiple equilibria in the presence of interdependent utility functions. The basic motivation of the NWE was to make policy recommendations without making interpersonal comparisons of utility. The goal was to make economics a positive s ...
Anthropology Introduction
... WHAT’S THE APPEAL? obvious problems for historians with the anthropological approach ...
... WHAT’S THE APPEAL? obvious problems for historians with the anthropological approach ...
social & group influences (cont.)
... impressions and making judgments about that person’s likeability and the kind of person he or she is, such as guessing his or her intentions, traits, and behaviors – physical appearance • initial impressions and judgments of a person are heavily influenced and biased by a person’s physical appearanc ...
... impressions and making judgments about that person’s likeability and the kind of person he or she is, such as guessing his or her intentions, traits, and behaviors – physical appearance • initial impressions and judgments of a person are heavily influenced and biased by a person’s physical appearanc ...
Social Cohesion Interventions in Sub
... that bonds society together, promoting harmony, a sense of community, and a degree of commitment to promoting the common good” (Colletta et al 2001). • Social cohesion (rather than “social capital”) to emphasize that we are talking about attributes of groups ...
... that bonds society together, promoting harmony, a sense of community, and a degree of commitment to promoting the common good” (Colletta et al 2001). • Social cohesion (rather than “social capital”) to emphasize that we are talking about attributes of groups ...
Adaptation and Inclusive Fitness - Department of Zoology, University
... has the appearance of design or intention. Inclusive fitness theory provides a link from the gene-frequency dynamics of natural selection to the appearance of design and intention at the individual level [24,41,44]. Specifically, it allows us to conceptualise individuals as trying to maximise someth ...
... has the appearance of design or intention. Inclusive fitness theory provides a link from the gene-frequency dynamics of natural selection to the appearance of design and intention at the individual level [24,41,44]. Specifically, it allows us to conceptualise individuals as trying to maximise someth ...
LENScience Senior Biology Seminar Series Walking Upright: The
... bring are accompanied by adaptive costs. Collectively adaptive advantage must outweigh adaptive cost for the evolutionary success of the species. However evolutionary fitness (and the adaptations selected) does not necessarily match health and longevity. ...
... bring are accompanied by adaptive costs. Collectively adaptive advantage must outweigh adaptive cost for the evolutionary success of the species. However evolutionary fitness (and the adaptations selected) does not necessarily match health and longevity. ...
Freud`s theory of personality
... Trait: a predisposition to respond to situations in a consistent way. Trait theories rest on two assumptions . ...
... Trait: a predisposition to respond to situations in a consistent way. Trait theories rest on two assumptions . ...
Gigi Tevzadze
... Tevzadze has approached this task in a novel way, and his work is considerably more than a modified theory based on the latest, newly discovered fossils. This new theory expresses especially elegantly how, after a certain stage, social behaviour becomes the moving force behind man’s evolutionary dev ...
... Tevzadze has approached this task in a novel way, and his work is considerably more than a modified theory based on the latest, newly discovered fossils. This new theory expresses especially elegantly how, after a certain stage, social behaviour becomes the moving force behind man’s evolutionary dev ...
Chapter 10 - Amazon S3
... Examiner or test situation may influence individual’s response Scoring is highly subjective Tests fail to produce consistent results (reliability problem) Tests are poor predictors of future behavior (validity problem) ...
... Examiner or test situation may influence individual’s response Scoring is highly subjective Tests fail to produce consistent results (reliability problem) Tests are poor predictors of future behavior (validity problem) ...
Concepts and meanings of community in the social sciences (PDF
... do not amount to an investigation of communal being-ness. This makes the targeting of interventions and the evaluation of results almost impossible for government policies designed to achieve communal regeneration, social cohesion, leaving the terms as slogans and empty rhetoric (Hughes, 2007, p24). ...
... do not amount to an investigation of communal being-ness. This makes the targeting of interventions and the evaluation of results almost impossible for government policies designed to achieve communal regeneration, social cohesion, leaving the terms as slogans and empty rhetoric (Hughes, 2007, p24). ...
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... Reinforcement is the process by which two partially reproductively isolated species come into secondary contact with one another, and further reproductive isolating mechanisms are evolved to reduce or prevent hybridization between the two. Presumably, reinforcement evolves from the selection pressur ...
... Reinforcement is the process by which two partially reproductively isolated species come into secondary contact with one another, and further reproductive isolating mechanisms are evolved to reduce or prevent hybridization between the two. Presumably, reinforcement evolves from the selection pressur ...
neuter insects - University of Oxford
... biological authority, and struggles go on between biologists over how his views should be interpreted.” Alcock (2001, page 17, see above) makes a similar point. One reason for Darwin's enduring influence is the broad scope of his work. Darwin studied and wrote on topics ranging from pollination biol ...
... biological authority, and struggles go on between biologists over how his views should be interpreted.” Alcock (2001, page 17, see above) makes a similar point. One reason for Darwin's enduring influence is the broad scope of his work. Darwin studied and wrote on topics ranging from pollination biol ...