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Topic: Fukuyama's "End of History" |
Noah Bartel
Replies: 15
Views: 2079
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Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 6:12 pm Subject: Fukuyama's "End of History" |
I won't be able to do the full reading until after 11 tonight so I'm making the thread and doing a start of a post based on the first couple of pages.
I think it's interesting that so far Fukuyama ... |
Topic: Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrodinger |
Noah Bartel
Replies: 15
Views: 1189
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Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 5:51 pm Subject: Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrodinger |
Bohr changed the way we look at science by giving it an unpredictable quality. This goes against what was previously thought. Before this, Science was the quest to discover and explain the world and i ... |
Topic: Einstein, Michaelson, Morley and More |
Noah Bartel
Replies: 17
Views: 855
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Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:48 pm Subject: Einstein, Michaelson, Morley and More |
Einstein seemed very much to be a visual learner, or at least good at imagining visuals to learn from. His theories on what it would be like to move at the speed of light along side a wave of light in ... |
Topic: Newton Reading - How did Light change science? |
Noah Bartel
Replies: 17
Views: 762
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Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:56 pm Subject: Newton Reading - How did Light change science? |
What is light? Newton did experiments with the color in light and learned how to manipulate the light to give off different color. I think it's interesting that he ended up helping create a better tel ... |
Topic: Contat and Cats |
Noah Bartel
Replies: 21
Views: 858
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Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:03 pm Subject: Contat and Cats |
What a strange reading. Not what I expected. I agree that Contat is not a (an?) historian but I disagree with both Noah R and Emma R in that I do not believe he is a historical story teller. His story ... |
Topic: Philosophies and Methodologies of Science and History |
Noah Bartel
Replies: 17
Views: 760
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Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:52 pm Subject: Philosophies and Methodologies of Science and History |
Rachel, I too am very confused. Anyway, I find it interesting and I agree with what Tino said in that Darwin, Marx and Turner all saw science and history as progressive steps. Each in their own way th ... |
Topic: Kant and Hegel |
Noah Bartel
Replies: 20
Views: 796
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Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 7:03 pm Subject: Kant and Hegel |
The idea of cause and effect was looked at a few different ways, the first being that cause and effect are two totally separate things and the second being cause and effect have to be connected. I thi ... |
Topic: Herodotus and Thucydides |
Noah Bartel
Replies: 22
Views: 1131
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Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:53 pm Subject: Herodotus and Thucydides |
Like almost everybody has said, Herodotus deserves to be credited as "The Father of History". It's true that his way of telling history was altered by fantastical elements and was written in ... |
Topic: Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature |
Noah Bartel
Replies: 21
Views: 939
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Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 9:59 pm Subject: Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature |
• What is the role of experience and logic in acquiring knowledge?
Aristotle makes the point that one needs to experience different things to be able to relate them to each other and ultimately lea ... |
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