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 Topic: Fukuyama's "End of History" |
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| Eve Frankel Replies: 15 Views: 2192 |
 Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 11:26 pm Subject: Fukuyama's "End of History" |
| Fukuyama's thesis was that history has come to an end. He believed that the end of history was when there were no major contradictions to modern liberalism that could no be explained in the context o ... | |
| Topic: Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrodinger |
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| Eve Frankel Replies: 15 Views: 1291 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 7:17 pm Subject: Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrodinger |
| Bohr's idea that atoms are not predictable, "an atom in a stationary state may in general even be said to posses a free choice between various possible transitions." (p.128) This changes the ... | |
| Topic: Einstein, Michaelson, Morley and More |
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| Eve Frankel Replies: 17 Views: 957 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:50 pm Subject: Einstein, Michaelson, Morley and More |
| I think that there are a few ways in witch the reading helps answer the project question. The work Michelson and Morey did in improving past experiments effected the discipline of science because it ... | |
| Topic: Newton Reading - How did Light change science? |
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| Eve Frankel Replies: 17 Views: 856 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:41 pm Subject: Newton Reading - How did Light change science? |
| I think that Newton's scientific methodology when studying light was new to the scientific world. "Newton was the first person to express clearly the basis of what became the scientific method.&q ... | |
| Topic: Contat and Cats |
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| Eve Frankel Replies: 21 Views: 965 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:07 pm Subject: Contat and Cats |
| I do not think that Contat is a historian. I think that his account of the cat massacre is historically relevant and is something for historians to consider, it is not a historical text in itself. T ... | |
| Topic: Philosophies and Methodologies of Science and History |
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| Eve Frankel Replies: 17 Views: 866 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:15 pm Subject: Philosophies and Methodologies of Science and History |
| I think that science and history have changed significantly over time. History has evolved from a record of past events to a record of past events with an analysis of those events. This analysis ran ... | |
| Topic: Darwin, Marx, Turner |
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| Eve Frankel Replies: 17 Views: 856 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2014 3:54 pm Subject: Darwin, Marx, Turner |
| In response to Cote, I don't know whether Darwin or Turner were influenced by Hegel directly but I do notice some similarities in their ideas. Darwin's idea of evolution ties in to Hegel's idea that ... | |
| Topic: Kant and Hegel |
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| Eve Frankel Replies: 20 Views: 900 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 2:46 pm Subject: Kant and Hegel |
| Cause and effect:
Thomas Hobbes believed that every effect had a material cause and that cause and effect was logical. Hume believed that cause and effect was not necessary and that we only think ... |
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| Topic: Galileo |
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| Eve Frankel Replies: 19 Views: 884 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:32 pm Subject: Galileo |
| The role of experience to Galileo was very important in "knowing things. He believed that experiences something happening would make that thing that happened real and true. The role of authorit ... | |
| Topic: Herodotus and Thucydides |
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| Eve Frankel Replies: 22 Views: 1262 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:01 pm Subject: Herodotus and Thucydides |
| My current definition of history: The past recounted from books, people and experiences and tinged with personal ideology.
I believe that Herodotus is the father of history. I think that Thucydi ... |
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| Topic: Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature |
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| Eve Frankel Replies: 21 Views: 1056 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:05 pm Subject: Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature |
| What is Aristotle's view of reality and how does it differ from plato's?
Aristotle believed that sensible objects are autonomous and that they make up the real world but that their traits do not ha ... |
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