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1. The economics of cotton harvest mechanization in the United States, 1920–1970

2. El concepto "ciencia" en la hipótesis del diseño inteligente, según la sentencia "Tammy Kitzmiller et al. vs. Dover Area School District"

3. Airs of Modernity 1881-1914

4. Spontaneous Overflow: Internalization and excess in British Romanticism

5. Gathering Flowers: Romantic Era Botanico-Literary Production and the Transatlantic Mediation of Culture

6. A misstep in consilience: The advent of neurofiction and the scientific bias in the neurohumanities

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Document 1 of 18

The economics of cotton harvest mechanization in the United States, 1920–1970

Author: Grove, Wayne Allison

Publication info: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2000. 9971085.

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Abstract: The hallmark of economic development is the long run transfer of labor from agriculture to the industrial and service sectors. This dissertation investigates the mechanization of the cotton harvest, one of the most dramatic episodes of technological change in United States history. Millions of workers from California to the Carolinas handpicked all American cotton in 1945 but by 1970 the crop was harvested by machine. In order to evaluate the pattern and cause of cotton harvester diffusion I created a time series data set of the ratio of the machine-to-hand cost of harvesting a pound of cotton lint for 12 major cotton-producing states from 1949 to 1964. These data correlate well with the pattern of harvest mechanization and indicate that both failing capital costs and rising hand costs drove diffusion (not just cheaper machines as had been thought). While sharecroppers and tenants picked southern cotton, I establish that a combination of day-haul laborers, migrants, and foreign workers did so from Texas to California (not just migrants as has been

claimed). Western reliance upon spot labor markets allowed adoption of profitable labor-saving devices. Southerners were prevented from using spot labor markets by the combination of high heat and high humidity that deteriorated cotton value. To avoid such losses plantation owners employed a year-around workforce and housed them adjacent to the fields so they could be mobilized during the limited harvest hours available. Growers in the semi-arid west faced a much less complicated cotton harvest problem. This weather-based explanation also accounts for the spatial distribution of plantations within the south and especially the concentration of plantations in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. Finally, I document and quantify the role of the Bracero Program that allowed Mexican laborers to work temporarily in the United States, primarily in cotton fields. During the 1950s braceros comprised 17 percent of the national cotton harvest labor force. Currently farmers mechanically harvest only 20 percent of the world's cotton. This study of the patterns and consequences of cotton harvest mechanization provides insight for policy makers in countries where this type of future technological change will elicit enormous rural-to-urban migration and capital-for-labor substitution.

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Subject: Economic history; Agricultural economics; Agricultural engineering; Farm machinery; Cotton; Studies

Classification: 0509: Economic history; 0503: Agricultural economics; 0539: Agricultural engineering

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Applied sciences Cotton Economics Harvest mechanization Labor market Plantation Technological change

Title: The economics of cotton harvest mechanization in the United States, 1920–1970

Number of pages: 250

Publication year: 2000

Degree date: 2000

School code: 0090

Source: DAI-A 61/05, Dissertation Abstracts International

Place of publication: Ann Arbor

Country of publication: United States

ISBN: 9780599762251, 059976225X

Advisor: Alston, Lee J.

University/institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University location: United States -- Illinois

Degree: Ph.D.

Source type: Dissertations & Theses

Language: English

Document type: Dissertation/Thesis

Dissertation/thesis number: 9971085

ProQuest document ID: 304628607

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El concepto "ciencia" en la hipótesis del diseño inteligente, según la sentencia "Tammy Kitzmiller et al. vs. Dover Area School District"

Author: Sanz, Vicente Claramonte

Publication info: Universitat de Valencia (Spain), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 10254960.


Abstract: Spanish: PLANNING: This doctoral thesis proposes a critical discussion about if intelligent design theory can be considered, from a technical-philosophic point of view, as a scientific speech, or on the contrary pseudo-scientific. The parameters of its discussion belongs to Philosophy of Science area and Philosophy of Biology subarea, trying to point out the theoric and empiric weaknesses of anti-evolutionism, in the frame of reference of evolutionism and creationism debate. SUBJECT: Criticism of the concept “science” in intelligent design theory. GOALS: To show that intelligent design theory: 1º Fail to observe criterions required by current Philosophy of Science in order to accept the scientific nature of a theory. 2º Constitute a pseudo-scientific speech, not a scientific one. 3º Its real purpose is not to contribute to scientific research at all, but to spread extreme Fundamentalism’s ideology. METHODOLOGY: Typified by being: 1ª Empiric and casuistry: the starting point for the discussion is an historic and real case, with very big social repercussion and sentenced by a Court of the United States. 2ª Philological: this doctoral tesis assume traduction of sentence ruled in Tammy Kitzmiller et al. vs. Dover Area School District trial on December 20, 2005. 3ª Interdisciplinary: subject discussed is considered in several prespectives, philosophical, historical, juridical, sociological, pedagogical and scientific. ABSTRACT OF MAIN ARGUMENTS 1 Epistemological: shows incompatible characters with science. 1.1 Supernatural causality. 1.2 No verifiability. 1.3 Irrefutability. 2 Methodological: to withdraw from modern scientific methodology. 2.1 Non-observance of hipothetycal-deductive method. 2.2 Mere a priori nature and lack of all empiric substratum. 2.3 Exclusive procedure by means of Revelation and authority. 3 Sociological: is an outsider from scientific comunity. 3.1 Non-existence of specialized papers. 3.2 Falsification of

proved scientific concepts. 3.3 Opposite expert opinion of scientific associations consulted.

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Subject: Epistemology; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy

Classification: 0393: Epistemology; 0402: Philosophy of Science; 0422: Philosophy

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Creationism Intelligent design Pennsylvania Philosophy of biology Philosophy of science Pseudoscience

Title: El concepto "ciencia" en la hipótesis del diseño inteligente, según la sentencia "Tammy Kitzmiller et al. vs. Dover Area School District"



Degree date: 2010

School code: 5871

Source: DAI-A 78/07(E), Dissertation Abstracts International



ISBN: 9781369536027

Advisor: Beneyto Torres, Rafael

Committee member: Alcolea Banegas, Jesus; Castrodeza Ruiz de la Cueva, Carlos; Dieguez Lucena, Antonio; Ulises Moulines, Carlos; Umerez Urrezola, Jon

University/institution: Universitat de Valencia (Spain)

Department: Departament de Lògica i Filosofia de la Ciència

University location: Spain

Degree: Dr.


Language: Spanish







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Airs of Modernity 1881-1914

Author: Ramirez, Enrique Gualberto, III

Publication info: Princeton University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2013. 3562221.


Abstract: This dissertation considers the burgeoning aeronautical culture in France between the Franco- Prussian War and the First World War as the setting for a conceptualization of air as a modernizing phenomenon. Changes from aerostatic to aerodynamic flight during this time--that is, the shift from lighter-

than-air flight via balloons to heavier-than-air flight with airplanes in nineteenth-century France--resulted in a rethinking of the envelope of air that moved through buildings and surrounded cities as something that was not exactly air, into something that was more than just air. Air fragmented into several modernities: It was recast as ground and treated like its own legal domain; It was an abstraction made material due to experiments in laboratories and the development of advanced representation and measurement techniques; Air even occupied its own separate historical domain--these developments all came about due to the collision, so to speak, of aeronautics and architecture. And yet architecture was the very device, the instrumentality that made the cultural ramifications of this collision apparent. Different modes of representation will be analyzed for their role in using architecture to communicate aspects of these aerial modernities. L'empire de l'air (1881), by the French ornithologist and artist Louis Pierre Mouillard (1834-1897) features drawings of large birds of prey to introduce the idea of air as a supporting and dynamic substrate. The conception of air as a "column" of geometricized space from two legal treatises by the French jurist Paul Fauchille (1858-1926) considers the relationships between building envelopes on aerial sovereignty. Photographs of smoked air flowing over solid objects by Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) show how an architectural apparatus--a sealed, wood-framed wind tunnel with a glazed wall--can be used to turn moving air from something that was "optically empty" to a discernible, tangible phenomenon. Finally, the idea of a wind tunnel as an architectural object reaches its fullest expression in Gustave Eiffel's (1832-1923) aeronautical experiments. His wind tunnels at Champ-de-Mars and Auteuil are analyzed as architectural machines for the recording of pressurized streamlines on solid objects. In short, Eiffel's wind tunnels will be understood as part of a larger entanglement between architecture and human flight via the convention of line drawing. This dissertation will conclude with an examination of architectural drawings by Adolphe Augustin Rey (1864-1934). Though Rey's name is not associated with

advances in French aeronautics, his drawings for a worker housing competition sponsored by the Fondation Rothschild nevertheless stand for an important proposition underlying this dissertation. Rey's plans and elevations for the Rothschild housing scheme suggest a new kind of relation between architecture and its surrounding air. Here, architectural drawings help elucidate how air has become a historical and material condition coextensive with architecture.

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Subject: Art history; Science history; Architecture

Classification: 0377: Art history; 0585: Science history; 0729: Architecture

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Communication and the arts Aeronautics Aviation France Modernism Urbanism

Title: Airs of Modernity 1881-1914



Degree date: 2013

School code: 0181




ISBN: 9781303097690

Advisor: Eigen, Edward A.

Committee member: Boyer, Christine; Cohen, Jean-Louis; Harwood, John

University/institution: Princeton University

Department: Architecture

University location: United States -- New Jersey

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 4 of 18

Spontaneous Overflow: Internalization and excess in British Romanticism

Author: Hughes, Jacob A. H.

Publication info: The Pennsylvania State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2014. 10390585.


Abstract: Spontaneous Overflow fixates on comic corporeality in the literature of British Romanticism: the bodily movements and moments that make the Romantic Movement move. Byron complains of a nausea induced by reading too much Wordsworth;

Blake grumbles of a bowel complaint which nearly killed him while reading the Excursion. These moments read Romanticism differently. Odd articulations of aesthetic experience, they expose the comic contingencies written on the underside of Romantic sincerity, and give a glimpse of a different history of Romanticism: one in which the aesthetic impulse towards idealism contains and conceals corporeality as part of its poetic structure and style. A doctrine of sincerity, Wordsworth’s famous articulation of all good poetry as the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” takes on a surprisingly somatic force when re-read by Blake’s bowels and Byron’s nausea. Tracing the intestinal tract of Romantic internalization, writers in the history of what I call “Inside Out Romanticism” create counter-flows and blockages with their bodies that disrupt and redirect a totalizing discourse of Romanticism at the very moment of its inception. While critics have often turned to “internalization” as shorthand for the imaginative work attempted by Romanticism’s aesthetics of transcendence, I argue that sudden convulsions of the body create spontaneous counter-flows that expose something somatic embedded in aesthetics and re-write the inward-turn of Romanticism as a physiological phenomenon. Attending to the stylistic subtleties of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, and Thomas Love Peacock, my project interrogates the hidden presence of corporeality at the core of an ostensibly disembodied aesthetic tradition, and ultimately resituates Romanticism’s radicalism in and around the excesses and evacuations of the body.

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Subject: Philosophy of Science; British and Irish literature; Aesthetics

Classification: 0402: Philosophy of Science; 0593: British and Irish literature; 0650: Aesthetics

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Philosophy, religion and theology Aesthetics Bodies Comedy Laughter Nausea Romanticism

Title: Spontaneous Overflow: Internalization and excess in British Romanticism



Degree date: 2014

School code: 0176



Country of publication: United State s

ISBN: 9781369578713

University/institution: The Pennsylvania State University

Department: English

University location: United States -- Pennsylvania

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Gathering Flowers: Romantic Era Botanico-Literary Production and the Transatlantic Mediation of Culture

Author: Jasper, Kelli Towers

Publication info: University of Colorado at Boulder, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10244517.


Abstract: My dissertation addresses a vibrant body of texts produced and read widely through Britain and the United States in the early nineteenth century: texts I have termed “botanico-literary productions,” or more simply, “flower books.” Combining exquisite drawings of flowers with written information in the form of poetry anthologies, moral tales, botany lessons, and cultural histories, flower books fuse science, literature, and art. Yet in spite of the popularity they enjoyed, today’s scholars have often dismissed them as mere commercial productions peripheral to the concerns of a revolutionary age. I address this misconception by tracing the influence flower books exerted on British and American readers’ perceptions throughout that formative period (1775-1850). I argue that in amassing and structuring information from a variety of sources, these texts link the foreign to the domestic to build a sense of shared belief across diverse climates, landscapes, and populations. Only a few notable studies of this genre exist, most of which rightly emphasize its importance for women authors. I add an original approach to this critical work by focusing on the flower book itself as a socially significant artistic form that compiles numerous bodies of knowledge and employs various media to spread powerful paradigms about the relation of nature to identity. I argue that flower books “mediate culture” by

creating order from the chaos of an increasingly globalized world and instructing their readers how to do the same. This project challenges age-old assumptions of literary analysis, particularly the beliefs that for a work to be extraordinary it must stem from a sole creative genius, demonstrate a unique artistic vision, or assert a radical break from contemporary values. Because flower books borrow from pre-existing sources, and their creation requires extensive collaboration, they open up compelling ways to rethink authorship and originality. Moreover, because their power to shape society arises in part from their status as common household objects, flower books require us to recognize and respect the formidable influence apparently ordinary and familiar things exert, especially in times of unrest and upheaval, to create and sustain a sense of shared and stable culture.

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Subject: Art history; American literature; British and Irish literature

Classification: 0377: Art history; 0591: American literature; 0593: British and Irish literature

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Communication and the arts Book history Cooper, Susan Fenimore Hale, Sarah Kent, Elizabeth Loudon, Jane Transatlantic

Title: Gathering Flowers: Romantic Era Botanico-Literary Production and the Transatlantic Mediation of Culture



Degree date: 2016

School code: 0051




ISBN: 9781369490435

Advisor: Heydt-Stevenson, Jillian

Committee member: Cox, Jeffrey N.; Schmiesing, Ann; Stein, Jordan A.; Zemka, Sue

University/institution: University of Colorado at Boulder

Department: English

University location: United States -- Colorado

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 6 of 18

A misstep in consilience: The advent of neurofiction and the scientific bias in the neurohumanities

Author: Lim, Jason

Publication info: State University of New York at Binghamton, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10247198.


Abstract: The study of the brain is regarded by many to be the bridge that spans all disciplines. Since all intellectual pursuits begin and end in the mind, it seems logical that the cognitive sciences are deemed relevant to all knowledge and experience. I begin my dissertation by addressing the new ethos under which the cognitive sciences prevail both culturally and especially academically. In literary studies, the cognitive sciences have pervaded both the obverse and reverse sides of literature in the forms of neurofiction and the neurohumanities. To facilitate this and future studies of neurofiction, I attempt to better delineate the subgenre and explain its role in contemporary fiction by discussing the circumstances of its advent, addressing its major criticisms, and describing how it lays the foundation of a new paradigm in literary verisimilitude. I then argue against the current direction of the neurohumanities by pointing out the ways in which the neurohumanist critical modes (i.e. neurocriticism, cognitive literary criticism, and literary Darwinism) are misapplied in the study of older works of fiction, ultimately benefiting neither the natural sciences nor the humanities, and I describe how using these new critical modes in the analysis of neurofiction will prove far more effective. I conclude my dissertation by revisiting C. P. Snow's 1959 Rede Lecture, “The Two Cultures,” and reevaluating the idea of consilience through our growing understanding of why the two cultures grew apart in the first place.

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Subject: Comparative literature; Neurosciences

Classification: 0295: Comparative literature; 0317: Neurosciences

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Biological sciences Brain Cognitive sciences Neurohumanities

Title: A misstep in consilience: The advent of neurofiction and the scientific bias in the neurohumanities



Degree date: 2016

School code: 0792




ISBN: 9781369513318

Advisor: Levinson, Brett

Committee member: Allen, Jeffner; Gerrits, Jeroe n; Moreira, Luiza

University/institution: State University of New York at Binghamton

Department: Comparative Literature

University location: United States -- New York

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 7 of 18

Constructing individuality: Ecological and evolutionary dynamics in experimental transitions to multicellularity

Author: Rebolleda-Gomez, Maria

Publication info: University of Minnesota, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10253356.


Abstract: The evolution of multicellularity transformed the history of life on our planet. Multicellularity involves the reorganization of previously autonomous cells into a more complex organism, however the ecological and evolutionary consequences of this reorganization remain poorly understood. This work explores experimentally the implication of reorganization for environmental change, as well as the costs and benefits of this transition in novel environments (UV radiation, and spatial structure), using a simple experimental system that evolved in our laboratory as the result of selection for larger size. Ten replicate populations of the unicellular strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae evolved under selection for faster settling, and selection in all of these populations resulted in the evolution of incipient multicellular phenotypes. Here, I evaluate how and under what conditions does adaptation occurs at a multicellular vs. unicellular levels. I expected that multicellularity would facilitate adaptation to UV radiation because multiple cells provide layers of protection for the internal cells. However, I found that the costs of a larger size are pervasive and adaptation at a multicellular level requires strong selective pressures. This work highlights the importance of space and the organization of cells as a consequence of the evolution of multicellularity: I show here

how this organization has the potential to create novel ecological opportunities, new challenges for adaptation (like strong local competition) and different cellular micro-environments providing the potential for cellular differentiation.

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Subject: Ecology; Philosophy of Science; Evolution and Development

Classification: 0329: Ecology; 0402: Philosophy of Science; 0412: Evolution and Development

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Biological sciences Experimental evolution Multicellularity Niche construction Spatial interactions

Title: Constructing individuality: Ecological and evolutionary dynamics in experimental transitions to multicellularity



Degree date: 2016

School code: 0130

Source: DAI-B 78/07(E), Dissertation Abstracts International



ISBN: 9781369602579

Advisor: Travisano, Michael

Committee member: Love, Alan C.; Shaw, Ruth G.; Snell-Rood, Emilie C.

University/institution: University of Minnesota

Department: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

University location: United States -- Minnesota

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 8 of 18

Kant and the nonspatiality of things in themselves

Author: Weyls, John M.

Publication info: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10242092.


Abstract: Kant says that space has no independently real existence. What he means is that apart from the human mind, space is not real. Of course, it is real to us, he argues—in fact, space is the very condition that makes possible an experience of

objects in space. However, space and time are mere forms of human sensibility, and as such: That which is not sensed is neither spatial nor temporal. With regard to space, commentators have argued that although they are inclined to accept that space is a form of human sensibility—a subjective condition of thought or mode by which representations (empirical) are manifest in intuition—nevertheless, space might be a feature of a world that exists independent of the mind. These commentators accuse Kant of having neglected two possibilities: (1) that the representation of space is both subjective and objective at once—that is, a subjective condition of human sensible intuition yet an “objective” quality of a mind-independent reality; and (2) that although the representation of space in sensible intuition is subjective, as Kant suggests, it could be the case that things as they are in themselves exist in space, independent of human sensibility. The focus of the following chapters is first to consider Kant’s subjectivity thesis in its strongest sense—the view that space and time are mere forms of human sensibility. Second, I address the alternative to the view that things in themselves are nonspatial—the alternative that Kant is alleged to have neglected. Finally, I consider responses to “neglected alternative” proponents. For the underlying question is this: What would lead us to believe that although things appear to us in space (and time), that is, side-by-side with other things, that this is not really so? I argue that Kant gives us good reason to think that this is not so, provided we accept his arguments for the subjectivity of space.

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Subject: Metaphysics; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy

Classification: 0396: Metaphysics; 0402: Philosophy of Science; 0422: Philosophy

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Allison, Henry Hogan, Desmon Kant, Immanuel Langton, Rae Leibniz, Gottfried Space

Title: Kant and the nonspatiality of things in themselves



Degree date: 2016

School code: 0209




ISBN: 9781369609882

Advisor: Hahn, Robert

Committee member: Beardsworth, Sara; Netzley, Ryan; Steinbock, Anthony; Tyman, Stephan

University/institution: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Department: Philosophy

University location: United States -- Illinois

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 9 of 18

Rewriting, recapturing, reenvisioning: Writing assessment revisited in the hermeneutic "Sphere"

Author: Fourzan, Judith Ann

Publication info: The University of Texas at El Paso, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10250887.


Abstract: This dissertation explores the use of hermeneutics in reconsidering the role of writing assessment in composition. The traditional view of writing assessment is negative. In order to change this traditional view and enable composition faculty to utilize writing assessment and a valuable and necessary tool, a hermeneutic sphere offers the best framework upon which to recast writing assessment as part of composition and writing. A hermeneutic sphere is an interpretive methodology that allows for the investigation of any and all aspects of the subject at hand – in this case, writing assessment. The hermeneutic sphere works much like a heuristic in that it addresses questions, questions that lead to interpretations, reinterpretations, directions and brings the various components of writing and assessment together in order to create assignments and assessments that reflect the values of each program or institution. Emphasis is on open exploration, analysis, and reflexiveness as a way to create assignments and assessments that most reflect the values and beliefs of the faculty, the program, department, college, institution, nation, or world.

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Subject: Educational tests & measurements; Philosophy of Science; Rhetoric

Classification: 0288: Educational tests & measurements; 0402: Philosophy of Science; 0681: Rhetoric

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Philosophy, religion and theology Education Assessment Hermeneutics Writing

Title: Rewriting, recapturing, reenvisioning: Writing assessment revisited in the hermeneutic "Sphere"



Degree date: 2016

School code: 0459




ISBN: 9781369523577

Advisor: Brunk-Chavez, Beth

Committee member: Blum, Toni; Mangelsdorf, Kate

University/institution: The University of Texas at El Paso

Department: English Rhetoric and Composition

University location: United States -- Texas

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 10 of 18

Unfriendly skies: science, superstition, and the great comet of 1680

Author: Bland, Laura E.

Publication info: University of Notre Dame, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10308107.


Abstract: In this dissertation, I analyze a range of epistemological and religious arguments for and against the fear of comets, as articulated in pamphlets and polemics following the comets of 1680–82 in the Spanish and English Empires. These works appeared in England, Spain, North America, and the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru. Against recent scholarship, I argue that the religious and political diversity which drove the “vulgarization” of comets in England was less important in other regions than technical disputes over the foundations of astrology, or long-standing religious distinctions between licit and illicit interpretations of wonders. After an introduction, four thematic chapters explore responses to the comets of the 1680s in

England, Spain, North America, and Spanish America respectively. In chapter two, I show how the politico-religious appropriation of the comet led to the association of comet-interpretation with vulgar segments of society. In subsequent chapters I show that the political prodigy-mongering found in England was, in the Spanish empire, controlled through censorship of the press and a Catholic tradition of strict separation between miracles and wonders. This shared intellectual tradition led the conversation of the comet to hinge on fairly technical aspects of natural philosophy and astrology, which constrained the possible meanings of the comet. Chapter Four shows that the same division between licit and illicit interpretation of comets operated in the Puritan context of New England. Chapter Five elaborates on the Catholic background established for Spain by showing how broad religious trends intersected with local circumstances of patronage and norms of argument in shaping the debate in Spanish America. Finally, the conclusion reflects on how the diversity of questions at stake in the last debate over the meaning of comets in the 1680s changes our understanding of the decline of prodigies, wonders, and superstition more generally.

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Subject: European history; Latin American history; American history; Folklore; Science history

Classification: 0335: European history; 0336: Latin American history; 0337: American history; 0358: Folklore; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Astrology Comet of 1680 Latin American science Prodigies Science and religion Spain Wonders

Title: Unfriendly skies: science, superstition, and the great comet of 1680



Degree date: 2016

School code: 0165



Countryof publication: United States

ISBN: 9781369540505

Advisor: Goulding, Robert

Committee member: Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe; Graubart, Karen; Gregory, Brad

University/institution: University of Notre Dame

Department: History and Philosphy of Science

University location: United States -- Indiana

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 11 of 18

From recovery to discovery: Ethnic American science fiction and (re)creating the future

Author: Bachran, Daoine S.

Publication info: The University of New Mexico, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10241242.


Abstract: This project assesses how science fiction by writers of color challenges the scientific racism embedded in genetics, nuclear development, digital technology, and molecular biology, demonstrating how these fields are deployed disproportionately against people of color. By contextualizing current scientific development with its often overlooked history and exposing the full life cycle of scientific practices and technological changes, ethnic science fiction authors challenge science’s purported objectivity and make room for alternative scientific methods steeped in Indigenous epistemologies. The first chapter argues that genetics is deployed disproportionally against black Americans, from the pseudo-scientific racial classifications of the nineteenth century and earlier through the current obsession with racially-tailored medicine and the human genome. I argue that the fiction of Octavia Butler, Tananarive Due, and Andrea Hairston reveals the continuing scientific racialization of black Americans and complicates questions of humanity that still rise from genetic typing and medical testing. Chapter 2 interrogates the nuclear cycle, revealing what has been erased—the mining of uranium on the Navajo Nation, nuclear testing on Paiute and Shoshone land in the United States, similar tests on Indigenous soil in Kazakhstan, and nuclear waste buried in the New Mexico and Texas deserts. I

contend Leslie Marmon Silko, William Saunders, and Stephen Graham Jones reveal the destructive influence of the buried nuclear cycle on Indigenous people globally, as they posit an Indigenous scientific method with which to fight through their novels. The third chapter exposes how the Latina/o digital divide in the United States elides a more disturbing multinational divide between those who mine for, assemble, and recycle the products that create the digital era and those with access to those products. From mining for rare earth elements in the Congo to assembling electronics in Mexico’s maquiladoras and “recycling” used electronics across the developing world, the novels of Alejandro Morales, Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita, and Ernest Hogan reveal the hidden price of the digital world and demand representation—digital, scientific, and historical. Chapter 4 builds on current discussions of Alex Rivera’s film Sleep Dealer to argue that Chicana/o and Indigenous authored science fiction films reveal how the global harvesting of natural resources has expanded to include life itself and organisms’ interiors. Films and other visual productions by Robert Rodriguez, Reagan Gomez, Federico Heller, Jose Nestor Marquez, Rodrigo Hernández Cruz, and Nanobah Becker predict biocolonialism’s expansion as they create worlds reflecting current practices where life forms become no more than patented, mechanized resources for neocolonial capitalist production and consumption.

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Subject: Science history; American literature; Ethnic studies

Classification: 0585: Science history; 0591: American literature; 0631: Ethnic studies

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Social sciences African American literature Chicana/o literature Comparative ethnic studies Native American literature Science fiction Science studies

Title: From recovery to discovery: Ethnic American science fiction and (re)creating the future



Degree date: 2016

School code: 0142




ISBN: 9781369562620

Advisor: Aleman, Jesse

Committee member: Hernandez, Bernadine; Matthews, Kadeshia; Ramirez, Catherine

University/institution: The University of New Mexico

Department: English

University location: United States -- New Mexico

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 12 of 18

Governing the Shark: Predators and People in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

Author: Thompson, Michaela Jane

Publication info: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10585242.


Abstract: This dissertation examines the history of shark-human interactions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It argues that the mid-twentieth century onward saw a series of conjunctures –technological, cultural, and scientific—that thrust sharks and humans into unprecedented levels of contact. This led to both a rise in preoccupation with sharks, and an emergence of new stakeholder groups that sought produce knowledge about them. The conflicting definitions, attitudes, and responses to sharks presented by these various groups are linked to greater trends in science, culture, and society. In particular, the way humans write and think about sharks and other man-eating predators has deep links to the position we see ourselves occupying in the environment. Further, anxieties about sharks are strongly tied to the complicated cultural relationships that people have with the marine environment, both as a place of wonder and terror. Lastly, sharks also allow us to examine the technologies we use to tame and navigate the ocean, as the shifts that brought humans and sharks into closer proximity were intertwined with new technologies that changed the ways humans interacted with

marine spaces. Each chapter presents case studies from the United States and South Africa, juxtaposing the responses by each region. The opening chapter charts the rise of shark attack numbers in the midcentury. It traces the impact of highly publicized shark attacks in the U.S. and South Africa in the 1950s, which resulted in differing approaches to combat the threat of shark attack. Chapter Two explores the intersections between popular depictions of sharks and changing perceptions of shark behavior, centering on the ur-text of shark literature: Jaws . Chapter Three traces the advent of shark tourism, and examines the controversy surrounding white shark cage diving in South Africa. Chapter Four explores the response of Cape Cod communities to an influx of white sharks into the region, drawing parallels with earlier historical examples of predator eradication and conservation. The dissertation thus argues that studying shark-human interactions allows for the interrogation of divisions between myth and science, experts and laypersons, popular culture and scientific knowledge, humans and the environment. (Copies available exclusively from MIT Libraries, libraries.mit.edu/docs - [email protected])

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Subject: Cultural anthropology; World History; Science history

Classification: 0326: Cultural anthropology; 0506: World History; 0585: Science history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences

Title: Governing the Shark: Predators and People in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

Number of pages: 0


Degree date: 2016

School code: 0753




Advisor: Ritvo, Harriet

University/institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University location: United States -- Massachusetts

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 13 of 18

Neutral Theory, Biased World

Author: Bausman, William C.

Publication info: University of Minnesota, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10239019.


Abstract: The ecologist today finds scarce ground safe from controversy. Decisions must be made about what combination of data, goals, methods, and theories offers them the foundations and tools they need to construct and defend their research. When

push comes to shove, ecologists often turn to philosophy to justify why it is their approach that is scientific. Karl Popper’s image of science as bold conjectures and heroic refutations is routinely enlisted to justify testing hypotheses over merely confirming them. One of the most controversial theories in contemporary science is the Neutral Theory of Ecology. Its chief developer and proponent, Stephen Hubbell, presents the neutral theory as a bold conjecture that has so far escaped refutation. Critics of the neutral theory claim that it already stands refuted, despite what the dogmatic neutralists say. We see the controversy through a Popperian lens. But Popper’s is an impoverished philosophy of science that distorts contemporary ecology. The controversy surrounding the neutral theory actually rests on a methodological fault. There is a strong but messy historical link between the concepts of being neutral and being null in biology, and Hubbell perpetuates this when he claims that the neutral theory is supplies the appropriate null for testing alternative theories. What method is being followed here? There are three contenders: Null hypothesis testing tests for whether a there is a pattern to be explained. Null modeling tests for whether a process is causally relevant to a pattern. Baseline modeling apportions relative responsibility to multiple processes each relevant to a pattern. Whether the neutral theory supplies an appropriate “null” depends upon whether null hypothesis, null modeling, or baseline model is intended. These methods prescribe distinct inference patterns. If they are null hypothesis testing or null modeling, the neutralists’s reasoning is invalid. If they are baseline modeling, the justification of a crucial assumption remains opaque. Either way, the neutral-null connection is being exploited rhetorically to privilege the neutral theory over its rivals. Clarifying the reasoning immunizes us against the rhetoric and foregrounds the underlying virtues of the neutralist approach to ecology. The Popperian lens distorts theoretical development as dogmatism. Lakatos’s view of science as the development of research programmes clarifies the epistemology of the neutral theory. Focusing philosophical attention on the neutralist research

programme illuminates (1) the synchronic uses of the neutral theory to make predictions and give descriptions and explanations; (2) its diachronic development in response to theoretical innovation and confrontation with data; (3) its complex relationships to alternative theories. For example, baseline modeling is now seen to be its primary explanatory heuristic. The justification for baseline modeling with the neutral theory, previously hidden from view, is seen in the logic of in the neutralist research programme.

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Subject: Ecology; Epistemology; Philosophy of Science

Classification: 0329: Ecology; 0393: Epistemology; 0402: Philosophy of Science

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Biological sciences Baseline modeling Ecology Neutral theory Null hypothesis testing Null modeling

Title: Neutral Theory, Biased World



Degree date: 2016

School code: 0130




ISBN: 9781369601480

Advisor: Waters, C. Kenneth

Committee member: Hubbell, Stephen P.; Love, Alan C.; Uffink, Jozef B.; Wimsatt, William C.

University/institution: University of Minnesota

Department: Philosophy

University location: United States -- Minnesota

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Document 14 of 18

The psychology of science: Motivated processing of scientific evidence, awareness, and consequences

Author: Anglin, Stephanie Miriam

Publication info: Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10508188.


Abstract: Although research on motivated reasoning has consistently shown that people's beliefs bias their evaluation of the quality of belief-relevant evidence (a subjective judgment), few studies have examined whether people are biased in an

absolute senseâ€”that is, in how they interpret and recall research findings. Furthermore, theorists argue that people are largely unaware of their bias because they quickly rationalize their automatic acceptance or rejection of the information; however, the existing evidence in the literature seems to suggest that people may sometimes possess some awareness of their bias. In six studies, I investigated the extent to which people (1) exhibit bias in evaluating, recalling, and maintaining (vs. changing) their beliefs in response to belief-relevant evidence and (2) are aware of the bias they exhibit. I also examined whether exposure to belief-inconsistent (vs. consistent) evidence reduces general support for science. Participants exhibited bias in evaluating the quality of the evidence but accurately recalled the findings and shifted their beliefs in the direction of the evidence presented. Participants expressed some awareness of their bias, although awareness varied under different conditions. Belief-inconsistent (vs. consistent) evidence reduced trust in research on the particular topic under investigation but did not strongly influence overall support for science. These findings extend previous research by clarifying the conditions under which defense and accuracy motivations guide information processing and contribute to belief maintenance vs. change. This work has important implications for determining how to reduce motivated reasoning to increase the broader impact of scientific research.

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Subject: Social psychology; Cognitive psychology

Classification: 0451: Social psychology; 0633: Cognitive psychology

Identifier / keyword: Psychology Belief perseverance Confirmation bias Motivated reasoning Science beliefs

Title: The psychology of science: Motivated processing of scientific evidence, awareness, and consequences



Degree date: 2016

School code: 0190




ISBN: 9781369606331

Advisor: Jussim, Lee

University/institution: Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick

Department: Graduate School - New Brunswick


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Forms of life: Evolution and poetic form in the British long nineteenth century

Author: Sherrill, Matthew Robert

Publication info: Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10514998.


Abstract: This dissertation seeks to reorient the discussion of evolutionary science and literature in the British long nineteenth century towards a consideration of poetic form. Unlike critical considerations of the nineteenth-century novel, in which questions of form and evolution have long been intertwined, studies of the period's poetry have struggled to convincingly link developments and experiments in poetic form to the evolutionary milieu in which they took place. Where critics do discuss nineteenth-century poetry and evolution, it is in the context of an intellectual-historical approach that regards form as an afterthought. In recent years, although critics have moved towards regarding poetic form as enmeshed in political and economic formations, they have still ignored the ways in which poetic forms serve as indices for scientific models or theories. This dissertation attempts to fill that gap by asking questions about what happens when one adopts a reading practice equally alert to both form and scientific history. My fundamental contention is that a willingness to think formally about poetry while remaining observant to developments in evolutionary science can unearth an alternative cultural history, in which poets serve less as direct conduits for symptomatic evolutionary anxiety or enthusiasm, and more as active participants in scientific

dialogue. This formal history illuminates the degree to which non-Darwinian models of evolutionary theory have been obscured in much poetic criticism, but also highlights the misunderstandings and confusion which characterized many poets' encounters with developmental models of natural history, a confusion that registers through formal experimentation. In other words, my study aims to shed light not only on our understanding of formal innovation in nineteenth century verse through a scientific lens, but also the history of the uneven reception of that science through an attention to poetic form. The first chapter tracks the dynamic relationship between text and paratext in Erasmus Darwin's didactic epics, the second examines repetition and repurposing in the verse of Charlotte Smith's children's books, the third attends to perspectival experiments of Robert Browning's monologues, and the fourth is focused on the rethinking of temporality in George Meredith's sonnet sequence, Modern Love. Through this apparently motley assemblage of figures, I hope to track an unobserved history of evolutionary reception through form in a manner that encourages poetic readings that regard form and science as vividly and necessarily entangled.

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Subject: Science history; British and Irish literature

Classification: 0585: Science history; 0593: British and Irish literature

Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics Social sciences British literature Darwin, Charles Evolution Poetry Victorian literature

Title: Forms of life: Evolution and poetic form in the British long nineteenth century



Degree date: 2016

School code: 0190




ISBN: 978136960 6942

Advisor: Williams, Carolyn

University/institution: Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick

Department: Graduate School - New Brunswick


Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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"This Is a New Thing in the World": Design and Discontent in the Making of a "Garage Lab"

Author: Scroggins, Michael

Publication info: Columbia University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10257620.


Abstract: This dissertation draws on twenty-four months of fieldwork at Biocurious, a "garage lab" in Silicon Valley expressly designed to democratize science, and a self-described "new thing in the world." From that starting point, this dissertation poses the following questions: a) how does a "garage lab" come to be recognized as a "garage lab," and b) what kind of scientist works to what effect inside a "garage lab." These questions are taken up on two levels: theoretically through a critical engagement with anthropological approaches to design, an explication of the difficulties and paradoxes inherent in the relationship between expertise and democracy, and through the business of producing an audience for and presenting "new things in the world" to the public, also found in precursors such as Thomas Edison and P.T. Barnum. Empirically, these questions are taken up as a particular problem for a group of people in Silicon Valley as they go about the everyday work of making a "garage lab" and deliberating among themselves and their consociates over its perils and possibilities. Ethnographically, this dissertation is animated by my participation initially as a volunteer, then as a member of the "garage lab," and finally through my participation as a member of a community project at Biocurious. Theoretically, this dissertation furthers Flusser's (1999) theory of design as "a trick against nature [the given]" by pulling it tight to the traditional anthropological concern with cultural production and critically examines the claim to democratization, finding the claim to democratization at Biocurious a reordering rather than erasing the hierarchy of expertise. Finally, the dissertation considers the afterlife of "new things in the world," which fade into the background as they inevitably move from the made (cultured) to

the given (natural). Following the text are two appendixes. Appendix One addresses the folklore of the modern laboratory by examining instructional stories told at the "garage lab," the unicorn in Silicon Valley, and the signs of domestic life in the "garage lab." Appendix Two constitutes notes towards a mechanical model that can account for the life of "new things in the world," as they inevitably form for the basis for further cultural productions.

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Subject: Cultural anthropology; Design

Classification: 0326: Cultural anthropology; 0389: Design

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Communication and the arts Anthropology Design Laboratory Science studies Silicon Valley

Title: "This Is a New Thing in the World": Design and Discontent in the Making of a "Garage Lab"



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0054




ISBN: 9781369610024

Advisor: Varenne, Herve

University/institution: Columbia University

Department: TC: Anthropology and Education

University location: United States -- New York

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Neurobiological dimensions of transference/countertransference interpreted through the lens of analytical psychology and modern physics

Author: Auger, Frederick V.

Publication info: Saybrook University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10254870.


Abstract: This theoretical dissertation utilizes alchemical hermeneutic methodology to identify, compare, and critique core assumptions in modern physics and the Freudian, Jungian, and

neuroscience paradigms. Common ideas and parallels in modern physics and analytical psychology are outlined and offered as a way to deepen understanding of contemporary neuroscience research on transference/counter-transference in psychotherapy. From the perspective of Freudian theory, based on Western rationalism, humans are understood as objects among objects operating in a universe of linear causality; the unconscious is understood as an epiphenomenon of biological processes, limited to personal dimensions. Consequently, the analytic process focuses on intrapsychic experience and transference is treated reductively. Neuroscience implicitly shares this worldview. Analytical psychology understands consciousness as a temporary state born from and subordinate to the unconscious, which is archetypal in nature. Focus is on ego and archetype operating within the context of a dialectic relationship, each being relatively autonomous, proportionate to its scope. Essentially, archetype is understood as psychophysical in nature, existing in a transcendent unitary reality beyond the apparent duality of psyche and matter, which exhibits acausal orderedness expressible in patterns of archetypal number. Archetypal patterns describing the relationship between ego/matter and archetype/spirit are discerned and shown to reflect a purposive course of psychic energy . These include: spirit/archetype moves towards matter/ego and vice versa, but only reluctantly. Transference, ultimately, could be understood as manifestation of spiritual instinct, consistent with the purposive course of energy, therefore, also expressible in terms of patterns of archetypal number. These same patterns are expressed in terms of analogies to ideas from modern physics. Consistent with analytical psychology, neuroscience demonstrates that right-brain (unconscious) develops prior to left-brain (conscious); with brain development dependent upon quality of early attachment relationship, which is re-lived in transference. The double helix approach to therapy is a psychophysical phenomenon in transference/counter-transference that displays dialect between the two brain hemispheres and centers of the psyche (ego and

unconscious), thus, demonstrating remarkable parallels to the above described archetypal patterns. These patterns are expressed in terms of archetypal number. This suggests neuroscience might be better served by adopting a worldview consistent with analytical psychology and modern physics.

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Subject: Philosophy of Science; Cognitive psychology

Classification: 0402: Philosophy of Science; 0633: Cognitive psychology

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Psychology Analytical psychology and modern physics Archetypal number Axiom of maria Jung and the psychology of religion Neuroscience of transference Transference

Title: Neurobiological dimensions of transference/countertransference interpreted through the lens of analytical psychology and modern physics



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0795




ISBN: 9781369602715

Advisor: Vaughan, Alan

Committee member: Hollis, James; Kremer, Jurgen

University/institution: Saybrook University

Department: Psychology

University location: United States -- California

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English







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Authenticity and inauthenticity in Martin Heidegger's philosophy of history

Author: Little, Nolan Davis

Publication info: Boston University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10241191.


Abstract: This dissertation explores the philosophy of history that Heidegger presents in his early magnum opus, Being and Time. I argue that his philosophy of history differs importantly from

several influential philosophical studies of history by his predecessors (particularly Heinrich Rickert and Edmund Husserl), and that it makes a valuable contribution to subsequent philosophy of history. Heidegger’s existential analysis emphasizes the interpretive character of the individual’s relation to history and, as a consequence, the hermeneutical features of any philosophical approach to history. An essential part of his analysis is his insistence on the individual’s frequently shirked responsibility for her interpretations. I argue that this focus on personal responsibility for historical interpretation places a burden upon the individual but also opens a possibility for creative engagement with the world. The value of the future is opened through the individual’s responsible engagement with her history. In the first the two chapters I introduce general sorts of problems that have beset the philosophy of history in the last two centuries, in particular, the problems presented by the prospect of an objective interpretation of history. Since the objectivity of an interpretation implies that the interpretation has some authority over those who understand it, I contend that the prospect of objective historical interpretation raises specific and daunting questions about one’s responsibility with regard to such interpretations. I continue the theme of responsibility and authority in the latter two chapters. There, I am interested in dissuading the reader from the view that Heidegger adopts an irresponsible attitude toward historical interpretation in Being and Time. By way of presenting a defense of Heidegger’s analysis of authenticity and inauthenticity, I argue that his philosophy amounts to a robust defense of historical responsibility. Through his analysis of conscience, guilt and resoluteness, Heidegger demonstrates Dasein’s capacity to recognize itself as a kind of entity that can and, indeed, must take responsibility for its interpretations and thereby for its historicity.

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Subject: Philosophy

Classification: 0422: Philosophy

Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology Authenticity Conscience History Inauthenticity Responsibility

Title: Authenticity and inauthenticity in Martin Heidegger's philosophy of history



Degree date: 2017

School code: 0017




ISBN: 9781369654615

Advisor: Dahlstrom, Daniel

Committee member: Hopp, Walter; Katsafanas, Paul; Roochnik, David; Speight, C. Allen

University/institution: Boston University

Department: Philosophy GRS

University location: United States -- Massachusetts

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English




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1. Tsardom of Rock: State, Society, and Mineral Science in Enlightenment Russia

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Tsardom of Rock: State, Society, and Mineral Science in Enlightenment Russia

Author: Graber, Anna Christina

Publication info: Yale University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. 10583242.


Abstract: This dissertation examines the golden age of the Imperial Russian mining industry (1719-1807), during which many of the empire's elites engaged in the production of mineralogical knowledge. This engagement is situated within the broader question of the nature of the Russian Enlightenment: did Russia have an Enlightenment, if so, what was its character, and how far did it reach, both in terms of geography and its permeation into society. The dissertation is composed of five chapters divided into three themes. The first two chapters examine the role of state institutions in mineralogical knowledge production. Chapter 1, "Mineralogy in Institutions: The College of Mines," presents for the first time the College of Mines as a scientific institution, in particular the mineralogical and chemical research that college leaders performed from the 1760s through the end of the century. In chapter 2, "Mineralogy in Institutions: The Academy of Sciences," I investigate the interplay between the court's demand for mining expertise from the 1730s to the 1770s and academic naturalists' mineralogical scholarship, particularly that of Mikhail Lomonosov. Chapter 3, "Useful and Remarkable Discoveries: Mineralogy at Mines and Factories," is a Siberian interlude. I argue

in this chapter that Russian factory towns were important provincial centers of education, noble culture, data collection, and independent mineralogical thought, expanding our mental map of the Russian Enlightenment to the easternmost edges of the Russian empire. This chapter concludes with a discussion of the epistemological categories in which mining and mineralogical knowledge fell. In chapters 4 and 5, I study why and when the Russian elite adopted a mineralogical understanding of the earth. In chapter 4, "Peter I and his Mineralogical Fledglings," I examine the mineral collecting of Russia's first three courtly mineralogists, Peter I, James Bruce, and Vasilii Tatishchev. Peter's patronage of natural history, including his personal interest in collecting natural objects, made mineralogical study a part of the cultural reforms of his reign. However, elite interest in mineralogy remained limited during his reign and in the three decades after his death. During this period, the only elites to be seriously interested in mineralogical questions (Bruce, Tatishchev, and a few of their associates) shared an involvement in the mining industry and a politics of defending the autocracy. In chapter 5, "A Noble Science for Practical Ends," I explain how natural history in general, and mineralogy in particular, became an essential part of Russian elite culture in the 1760s. Court patronage of mineralogy was so marked by the 1770s that savvy mine and factory owners belonging to the merchant estate parleyed their mineralogical expertise into imperial patronage for their businesses, social legitimation, and patents of hereditary nobility. Whatever the actual economic benefit of studying mineralogy, it had tremendous social utility. This dissertation contributes to two historiographies. The first is the historiography of eighteenth-century Russian science. The cliché of this historiography is that natural science was a tool of a progressive, modernizing state, which led a reluctant, backward elite in adopting a secular, natural philosophical view of nature. The Western historiography of eighteenth-century Russian science is short, and like the Russian historiography, its main subject is the Academy of Sciences. This dissertation examines the culture of science in a

variety of environments–in state institutions like the College of Mines and yes, the Academy of Sciences, but also at the court, in elites' homes, and at Siberian mines and metallurgical plants. By examining mineralogical study in these varied contexts one can understand why leaders of the mining industry and social elites, not entirely the bumpkins that Soviet historians believed them to be, adopted this particular aspect of Westernization. The second historiography is that of the Russian Enlightenment. The central question of this historiography is whether or not Russia participated in the Enlightenment, and above all whether Russia had its own national movement. For Soviet historians wishing to prove the intellectual parity of Russia and the West, the answer to both versions of this question is a resounding yes. Western scholars of the Russian Enlightenment are largely in agreement about the characteristics of the movement: it was a conservative, state-led movement, in which only a small group of elites and officials took part, and resulting in a tightening of relations between the aristocracy and the state. This study of mining and mineral science contributes to the historiography of the Russian Enlightenment by uncovering a socially and geographically wider Enlightenment than previously imagined.

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Subject: European history; Science history; Russian history

Classification: 0335: European history; 0585: Science history; 0724: Russian history

Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Catherine II Enlightenment History of Mining Mineralogy Mining Science Siberia

Title: Tsardom of Rock: State, Society, and Mineral Science in Enlightenment Russia



Degree date: 2016

School code: 0265




ISBN: 9781369619423

Advisor: Bushkovitch, Paul

University/institution: Yale University

University location: United States -- Connecticut

Degree: Ph.D.


Language: English




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