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Journal articles on the topic "Philosophy of biology"

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Sismondo, Sergio, and Elliott Sober. "Philosophy of Biology." Philosophical Review 104, no. 1 (January 1995): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2186031.

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Pratt, Vernon, and Elliot Sober. "Philosophy of Biology." Philosophical Quarterly 45, no. 179 (April 1995): 251. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2220431.

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Ruse, Michael. "Philosophy of Biology." International Studies in Philosophy 30, no. 4 (1998): 150–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/intstudphil199830445.

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Martin, August W. M. "Philosophy of Biology." International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29, no. 4 (October 2, 2015): 441–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02698595.2015.1195149.

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Allen, Colin. "Philosophy of Biology." Teaching Philosophy 14, no. 4 (1991): 423–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/teachphil199114459.

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Dietrich, Michael R. "Philosophy of Biology." Teaching Philosophy 17, no. 4 (1994): 375–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/teachphil199417444.

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Aleixandre, Mar�a Pilar Jimenez. "Philosophy of biology." Science Education 84, no. 2 (March 2000): 276–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1098-237x(200003)84:2<276::aid-sce8>3.0.co;2-z.

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Rosenberg, Alex. "Philosophy of Biology and His Philosophy of Biology. Elliot Sober." Philosophy of Science 63, no. 3 (September 1996): 452–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/289921.

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Pradeu, Thomas. "Thirty years of Biology & Philosophy: philosophy of which biology?" Biology & Philosophy 32, no. 2 (December 20, 2016): 149–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-016-9558-7.

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Downes, Stephen M. "From Philosophy of Biology to Social Philosophy." Biology & Philosophy 21, no. 2 (March 2006): 299–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-005-2779-9.

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Kendig, Catherine Elizabeth. "Biology and ontology : an organism-centred view." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/42121.

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In this dissertation I criticize and reconfigure the ontological framework within which discussions of the organization, ontogeny, and evolution of organic form have often been conducted. Explanations of organismal form are frequently given in terms of a force or essence that exists prior to the organism’s life in the world. Traits of organisms are products of the selective environment and the unbroken linear inheritance of genetically coded developmental programs. Homological traits share unbroken vertical inheritance from a single common ancestor. Species are the product of exclusive gene flow between conspecifics and vertical genetic inheritance. And likewise, race is ascribed on the basis of pre-existing essential features. In place of this underlying preformationism which locates the source of form either in the informational program of inherited genes or within a selecting environment, I suggest form is the product of an organism’s self-construction using diverse resources. This can be understood as a modification of Kant’s view of organisms as self-organizing, set out in his Critique of Judgment (1790). Recast from this perspective the meaning and reference of “trait,” “homology,” “species,” and “race” change. Firstly, a trait may be the product of the organism’s self-construction utilizing multiple ancestral resources. Given this, homologous traits may correspond in some but not all of their features or may share some but not all of their ancestral sources. Homology may be partial. Species may acquire epigenetic, cellular, behavioural, and ecological resources both vertically and horizontally. As such, they are best conceived of as recurrent successions of self-constructed and reconstructed life cycles of organisms sharing similar resources, a similar habitus, similar capacities for sustaining themselves, and repeated generative processes. Lastly, race identity is not preformed but within the control of human organisms as agents who self-construct, interpret, and ascribe their own race identities utilizing diverse sets of dynamic relationships, lived experiences, and histories.
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Frezza, Giulia. "The concept of interaction : crossovers among biology, logic and philosophy." Paris 7, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA070008.

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Mon travail propose l'histoire épistémologique du concept d'interaction, que j'ai appelée son "hidden epistemological exaptation", à partir des domaines de la physique (complementarity principle) et de la psychologie (Gestalttheorie) en arrivant à la biologie contemporaine. Ma thèse est que, de ce point de vue, l'interaction est un processus doté d'une polarité. Il a un coté positif, du point de vue de l'action coordonnée entre deux dynamiques ou processus, mais, d'autre part, il a un coté négatif, en tant qu’inter-férence (littéralement: inter-fero en Latin, amener) qui résulte de la co-constitution dans le développement du processus même. Deuxièmement, je propose une comparaison entre ces analyses sur l'interaction et celles qui ont été achevées par l'approche géométrique de Jean-Yves Girard en logique linéaire et en Géométrie de l'Interaction (GdI) qui portent notamment à considérer le lien étroit entre l'interaction et la dualité en logique. L'analyse de l'usage et de la diffusion du ternie "interaction" dans les différents domaines montre une croissance intensive et extensive, notamment dans les 40 dernières années. J'en conclus que le concept d'interaction constitue une "rupture épistémologique" qui met en lumière un cadre épistémologique très expressif pour décrire les être vivants d'un point de vue théorique
My work discusses a possible epistemological history of the concept of interaction, which outlines what I name its hidden epistemological exaptation, from the domain of physics (complementarity principle) and psychology (Gestalttheorie) to its recent developments in biology. I advocate that, from this point of view, the interaction results a process due of a polarity. It has a "positive pole", being the coordinated action between two dynamics, or processes. At the same time it has a "negative pole" being an inter-ference (literally: inter-fero from Latin, to bear), in the sense of a result of the co-constitution in the development of the actual process. Moreover I stress a parallel between the discussed investigations about interaction and those achieved by Girard's geometric approach in linear logic and "Geometry of Interaction" (Gol). I especially point out the link between the notion of interaction and that of duality in logic. The analysis of the use and diffusion of the term "interaction" in various scientifïc disciplines shows an intense and extensive growth especially within the last forty years. I propose that we are assisting to a proper epistemological breaking which indicates that the concept of interaction has become now a precious epistemological framework for describing living phenomena from a theoretical point of view
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Cushing, Matthew K. "Between Biology and Sociality: An Evolutionary Perspective on Linguistic Modularity." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1396601796.

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Grinnell, Jason David. "BIOLOGY, POLICY, AND THE RACIAL CONTRACT." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1144763931.

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April, Carolyn W. "From biology to bioethics : can the science of emotion help moral philosophy?" Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496822.

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Bonnin, Thomas. "Knowledge and knowers of the past : a study in the philosophy of evolutionary biology." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/34361.

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This dissertation proposes an exploration of a variety of themes in philosophy of science through the lens of a case study in evolutionary biology. It draws from a careful analysis and comparison of the hypotheses from Bill Martin and Tom Cavalier-Smith. These two scientists produced contrasted and competing accounts for one of the main events in the history of life, the origin of eukaryotic cells. This case study feeds four main philosophical themes around which this dissertation is articulated. (1) Theorizing: What kind of theory are hypotheses about unique events in the past? (2) Representation: How do hypotheses about the past represent their target? (3) Evidential claims: What kind of evidence is employed and how do they constrain these hypotheses? (4) Pluralism: What are the benefits and the risks associated with the coexistence of rival hypotheses? This work both seeks to rearticulate traditional debates in philosophy of science in the light of a lesser-known case of scientific practice and to enrich the catalogue of existing case studies in the philosophy of historical sciences.
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Atytalla, John. "On the Explanatory Limits of Concepts and Causes: Intentionality, Biology, and the Space of Reasons." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39449.

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In Mind and World John McDowell argues that our attempts to understand how it is that our thoughts are rationally answerable to the world are in vain. Whether one takes Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology or Phenomenology to be capable of answering this question, such attempts are, he claims, merely a consequence of failing to see that they are already gripped by a picture of the world which precludes the possibility of such answers. In particular, he suggests that if we render Nature as that which is circumscribed by the intelligibility of the natural sciences, we leave no room for rationality conceived of in terms of the spontaneity and freedom that Kant associated with it. While McDowell claims to be a `quietist' who is not putting forward his own theory of mind, he is, at the very least, suggesting a theory of nature, one which he dubs `liberal' insofar as it suggests that we widen the scope of nature so that it can be hospitable to the normative features of thought. This thesis will propose a theory of mind which attempts to show how the causal, normative, and phenomenological can be seen as continuous features of the natural world. It demonstrates that a careful appraisal of causal or scientific accounts of intentionality can be made compatible with McDowell's commitment to the normativity of thought. By revealing that a biological account of the mind, suitably expanded to include an account of history as a Dynamic Ecological Milieu, generates biological interrogatives for the human organism, we can show that the normative manifests as an emergent property of the nomological. This allows second nature to retain its sui generis status while being continuous with the causal descriptions of first nature. This thesis will also draw from the Phenomenological tradition, as a means of critiquing McDowell's account of “the Myth of the Given" and his rejection of pre-conceptual content. In particular, it will follow Charles Taylor and Hubert Dreyfus in affirming that we should view experience, not in terms of that which provides epistemic foundations, but as the domain of pre-reflective embodiment. This is essential to showing how the biological sciences can inform us about the causal background which makes embodied coping so unreflectively natural. Furthermore, phenomenology has provided a means of engaging with the biological sciences in a non-reductive way, as is evidenced by Maurice Merleau-Ponty's The Structure of Behavior and the more recent neurophenomenological tradition which is largely inspired by his work. Finally, by drawing on these resources, the desideratum of this thesis is a scientifically informed understanding of what McDowell calls “second nature" and “the space of reasons" in terms of what I have called “biological interrogatives" and the “phenomenology of epistemic agency".
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Jabbour, Jawdath. "L'âme et l'unité de l'homme dans la pensée de Fārābī." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE5091.

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Notre étude interroge de manière systématique ce qu’est l'âme humaine et comment elle constitue un individu dans la pensée de Fārābī. Nous y avons établi que la triade néoplatonicienne nature, âme et intellect structure sa pensée naturelle et qu’elle correspond en l'homme à la substantialité, la vie – en tant que principe général aux êtres vivants – et la pensée. Cette triade est liée à la notion de substantification et permet de comprendre la manière par laquelle différentes fonctions, naturelles, animées et intellectives, peuvent émaner d’une substance une. La constitution de l'individu humain se présente ainsi comme une substantification progressive par ces trois principes. Elle est marquée par une forte téléologisation qui assure l’unité substantielle de l’homme, puisque, lors de la génération de ce dernier, la substance réalisée par la nature puis par l'âme est dès le départ en vue de la réalisation de l'intellect et de sa perfection ultime, comprise comme un retour à soi. Face aux lectures dualistes de son époque, Fārābī revient à une compréhension particulière de l'âme comme forme du corps, et comme principe de l'unité le plus parfait dans le monde sublunaire. Sa compréhension originale de l'hylémorphisme permet de soutenir en même temps la séparabilité de l'intellect, à travers des éléments issus de la tradition néoplatonicienne, notamment l’organisation des fonctions et principes présents en l’homme en différents rangs intermédiaires
Our work examines in a systematic way what is the human soul and how it constitutes an individual in al-Fārābī’s thought. We have shown in it that the Neoplatonist triad of nature, soul and intellect structures his natural thought and that it corresponds in man to substantiality, life – as a principle shared with all the living creatures – and thought. This triad is linked to the notion of substantification and allows us to understand the way different functions can emanate from what is a single substance. The way man is constituted by these three principles is presented as a progressive substantification characterized by a strong teleologisation. This teleologisation insures man’s substantial unity since, in the process of his generation, the substance realized first by nature and then by soul exists for the sake of its realization by the intellect and the attainment of man’s perfection, perceived as a return to the self. Facing the dualist positions of his time, al-Fārābī upheld a particular reading of the soul as the form of a body and as the most accomplished principle of unity in the sublunary world. His original comprehension of hylemorphism asserts the separability of the intellect through his usage of neoplatonist elements, notably the organization of the principles and functions that are present in the human substance into various intermediary ranks
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Aarons, Jeremy P. (Jeremy Peter) 1968. "Thinking locally : a disunified methodology of science." Monash University, Dept. of Philosophy, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8540.

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Ratti, E. "THE CONTEXT OF DISCOVERY OF DATA-DRIVEN BIOLOGY." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/357962.

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My PhD dissertation aims (1) at reconstructing the structure of the context of discovery of ‘data-driven’ (big data, data intensive) biology and (2) at comparing it to traditional molecular approaches. Within the current debate in philosophy of science, ‘traditional approaches’ in molecular biology should be understood as the discovery and heuristics strategies identified by mechanistic philosophers such as Carl Craver and Lindley Darden. Therefore, key questions of my thesis are: what is the structure of discovery of data-driven biology? Is data-driven biology methodology different from traditional molecular approaches? The reason for doing such an analysis comes from a recent controversy among biologists. In particular, sides disagree on whether high throughput sequencing technologies are stimulating the development of a new scientific method somehow irreducible to traditional approaches. I will try to disentangle the debate by reconstructing and comparing data-driven and traditional methodologies. The dissertation is composed of five chapters. The first chapter deals with methodological issues. How do I compare data-driven and traditional molecular biology structures of discovery? Mechanistic philosophers have extensively characterized the discovery structure of traditional molecular biology. However, there is not such an analysis for data-driven biology. In order to do this, I will critically revise the discovery/justification distinction. The debate on discovery/justification has provided valuable tools on how discovery strategies might be conceived, and it is clearly one of the main forefathers of recent philosophical discussions on scientific methodologies in biology and physics. In Chapter 2 I shall to try to infer a full-fledged account of discovery for data-driven biology by means of the philosophical tools developed in Chapter 1. This analysis will be done in parallel to the investigation of key examples of data-driven biology, namely genome-wide association studies and cancer genomics. In Chapter 3 I analyze the epistemic strategies enabled by biological databases in data-driven biology. In Chapter 4, I will show how the discovery structure of ‘traditional molecular biology’ can be more efficiently rephrased through the same theoretical framework that I use to characterize data-driven biology. Since data-driven and traditional molecular biology seem to adopt the same discovery structure, one might consider the controversy motivating my research ill posed. However, in Chapter 5 I shall argue that there is still a valuable reason of disagreement between the sides. Actually, data-driven and traditional molecular biology endorse different cognitive values, which provide the criteria for evaluating models and findings as adequate or not. Here one might say that, although the structures of discovery (i.e. how reasoning and experimental strategies are structured and depend on each other) of the two sides are the same, the contexts of discovery (i.e. the set of both reasoning/experimental strategies and epistemic values/background assumptions that motivate discovery) are different. Therefore, in this last chapter I shall pinpoint the cognitive values behind traditional and data-driven biology, and how these commitments stimulate the heated disagreement motivating my research.
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Books on the topic "Philosophy of biology"

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Mohan, Matthen, and Linsky Bernard, eds. Philosophy & biology. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1988.

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Philosophy of biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Philosophy of biology. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1993.

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Philosophy of experimental biology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Philosophy of biology. Stocksfield: Acumen, 2007.

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Michael, Ruse, ed. Philosophy of biology. Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books, 1998.

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Michael, Ruse, ed. Philosophy of biology. Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books, 2007.

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Philosophy of biology today. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.

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L, Hull David, and Ruse Michael, eds. The philosophy of biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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L, Hull David, and Ruse Michael, eds. The Cambridge companion to the philosophy of biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "Philosophy of biology"

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Ruse, Michael. "Biology, Philosophy of." In Encyclopedia of Science Education, 1–3. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6165-0_236-1.

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Ruse, Michael. "Biology: Philosophy of." In Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, 360–67. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09483-0_54.

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Ruse, Michael. "Biology: Philosophy of." In Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, 1–8. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_54-1.

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Ruse, Michael. "Biology, Philosophy of." In Encyclopedia of Science Education, 123–26. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2150-0_236.

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Boden, Margaret A. "Creativity and biology." In Creativity and Philosophy, 173–92. 1 [edition]. | New York: Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351199797-11.

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Thompson, Paul. "Biology." In A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, 16–25. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781405164481.ch3.

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Kampourakis, Kostas. "Philosophy of Biology and Biology Education: An Introduction." In The Philosophy of Biology, 1–29. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6537-5_1.

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Wilkins, John S. "Essentialism in Biology." In The Philosophy of Biology, 395–419. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6537-5_19.

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Green, Sara. "Erratum: Philosophy of Systems Biology." In Philosophy of Systems Biology, E1. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47000-9_25.

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Fagan, Melinda Bonnie. "Interdisciplinarity, Philosophy and Systems Biology." In Philosophy of Systems Biology, 87–97. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47000-9_8.

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Conference papers on the topic "Philosophy of biology"

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Leonelli, Sabina. "An HPSSB (history, philosophy and social science of biology) approach to biomedical ontologies." In 2009 5th IEEE International Conference On E-Science Workshops. IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/esciw.2009.5407978.

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Suciyati, Alfi, and Fadhlan Muchlas Abrori. "Development of Biology Learning Comic Based on The Tidung Tribe’s Gasab Philosophy." In 2nd International Conference on Innovation in Education and Pedagogy (ICIEP 2020). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211219.002.

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Cohen, Steve, and Richard Chechile. "Overview of ConStatS and the ConStatS assessment." In Role of Technology. International Association for Statistical Education, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.52041/srap.96203.

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ConStatS has been in development at the Tufts University Curricular Software Studio for the past nine years. From the beginning, the goal of the project was to develop software that offered students a chance to actively experiment with concepts taught in introductory statistics courses. It is a joint product of faculty from engineering, psychology, sociology, biology, economics, and philosophy. During the past nine years, there have been periods alternatively devoted to development, assessment, and classroom use.
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Kondaurova, Tatyana Ilinichna, Natalya Viktorovna Bocharnikova, and Natalya Evgenievna Fetisova. "Justification and Development of a Model of the Formation of Readiness Among Pedagogical University Students to Implement Aesthetic Education of Schoolchildren when Teaching Biology." In International Scientific Conference on Philosophy of Education, Law and Science in the Era of Globalization (PELSEG 2020). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200723.040.

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