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Data DNA: The Next Generation of Statistical Metadata
Describes the components of a complete statistical metadata system and suggests ways to create and structure metadata for better access and understanding of data sets by diverse users
Classificatory Theory in Biology
publication-status: Acceptedtypes: ArticleAuthor's version of a paper subsequently published in Biological Theory. Please cite the published version by following the DOI link.Scientiļ¬c classiļ¬cation has long been recognized as involving a speciļ¬c style of reasoning and doing
research, and as occasionally affecting the development of
scientiļ¬c theories. However, the role played by classiļ¬catory activities in generating theories has not been closely
investigated within the philosophy of science. I argue that
classiļ¬catory systems can themselves become a form of
theory, which I call classiļ¬catory theory, when they come
to formalize and express the scientiļ¬c signiļ¬cance of the
elements being classiļ¬ed. This is particularly evident in
some of the classiļ¬cation practices used in contemporary
experimental biology, such as bio-ontologies used to
classify genomic data and typologies used to classify
āānormalāā stages of development in developmental biology.
In this paper, I explore some characteristics of classiļ¬catory theories and ways in which they differ from other
types of scientiļ¬c theories and other components of scientiļ¬c epistemology, such as models and background
assumptions.Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC
The Intrinsic Structure of Quantum Mechanics
The wave function in quantum mechanics presents an interesting challenge to
our understanding of the physical world. In this paper, I show that the wave
function can be understood as four intrinsic relations on physical space. My
account has three desirable features that the standard account lacks: (1) it
does not refer to any abstract mathematical objects, (2) it is free from the
usual arbitrary conventions, and (3) it explains why the wave function has its
gauge degrees of freedom, something that are usually put into the theory by
hand. Hence, this account has implications for debates in philosophy of
mathematics and philosophy of science. First, by removing references to
mathematical objects, it provides a framework for nominalizing quantum
mechanics. Second, by excising superfluous structure such as overall phase, it
reveals the intrinsic structure postulated by quantum mechanics. Moreover, it
also removes a major obstacle to "wave function realism.
Mapping the Indigenous Postcolonial Possibilities of Teacher Preparation
In this article, a team of teacher educators collectively think through the many possibilities of how concepts such as decolonization, abolition, and fugitivity intersect with and are taken up by teacher education programs. To do so, we undertook a critical interpretive synthesis of scholarly literature spanning 2000 to 2020 to locate, examine, and organize existing examples of teacher education programs that work to transgress hegemonic colonial models of education. We revisit de Oliveira Andreotti et al.ās social cartography as a framework for comparing the theoretical foundations and social implications of each teacher education program
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Proceedings ICPW'07: 2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web, 22-23 Oct. 2007, Tilburg: NL
Proceedings ICPW'07: 2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web, 22-23 Oct. 2007, Tilburg: N
An Intrinsic Theory of Quantum Mechanics: Progress in Field's Nominalistic Program, Part I
In this paper, I introduce an intrinsic account of the quantum state. This account contains three desirable features that the standard platonistic account lacks: (1) it does not refer to any abstract mathematical objects such as complex numbers, (2) it is independent of the usual arbitrary conventions in the wave function representation, and (3) it explains why the quantum state has its amplitude and phase degrees of freedom.
Consequently, this account extends Hartry Fieldās program outlined in Science Without Numbers (1980), responds to David Malamentās long-standing impossibility conjecture (1982), and establishes an important first step towards a genuinely intrinsic and nominalistic account of quantum mechanics. I will also compare the present account to Mark Balaguerās (1996) nominalization of quantum mechanics and discuss how it might bear on the debate about āwave function realism.ā In closing, I will suggest some possible ways to extend this account to accommodate spinorial degrees of freedom and a variable number of particles (e.g. for particle creation and annihilation).
Along the way, I axiomatize the quantum phase structure as what I shall call a āperiodic difference structureā and prove a representation theorem as well as a uniqueness theorem. These formal results could prove fruitful for further investigation into the metaphysics of phase and theoretical structure.
(For a more recent version of this paper, please see "The Intrinsic Structure of Quantum Mechanics" available on PhilPapers.
Poster Presentation
Posters are an important part of scholarly and professional communication. In an effort to encourage students at the School of Library & Information Science to be active participants in these types of events, students may participate in an optional student symposium, but they are required to create research posters in their capstone LIS 695. These are helpful resources and recent examples
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