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“Scientific facts”
“Scientific facts” D. Gile, January 22, 2005 Is there anything special about “facts” as they are produced by science (in the sense of the ESP as explained in previous contributions on this page), as opposed to facts collected, presented or…
The liberal arts paradigm and the empirical science paradigm
The liberal arts paradigm and the empirical science paradigm D. Gile, January 22, 2005 If my memory serves me right, the concept of “science” was never raised as an issue during my undergraduate and graduate studies in mathematics. Neither was…
Institutional measures for norm enforcement
Institutional measures for norm enforcement D. Gile, January 5, 2005 How does the scientific community make sure that individual members of the community comply with its norms? Firstly, through training. When scientists are trained, their instructors teach them not only…
Scientific norms
Scientific norms D.Gile, December 8, 2004 Our knowledge about the world is partly experiential, i.e. obtained through direct sensory experience (what we see, what we hear, what we smell, etc.) and ulterior cognitive processing (the brain has to make sense of the sensory…
PhD Contract, University of Helsinki
PhD Contract University of Helsinki (Report from the Lisbon Congress round table on supervision, September 2004. Convenor: Andrew Chesterman) This is the PhD contract used in the Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature at the University of Helsinki, developed in collaboration by supervisors and postgraduate students…