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History and Philosophy of Science

The examination of scientific development, methodology, and epistemology across history, analyzing how scientific knowledge is constructed, validated, and changes over time, including the social and cultural contexts of scientific practice

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Model Evaluation: An Adequacy-for-Purpose View

The paper argues for an "adequacy-for-purpose" view of model evaluation, where a model's quality is assessed based on its suitability for specific purposes rather than solely on its representational accuracy. It introduces two notions of adequacy (success in a particular use and reliability in a type of use) and highlights how user, methodology, and circumstances influence a model's adequacy.

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UNCOVERING THE DOUAI FRAGMENT: COMPOSING POLYPHONY AND ENCODING A COMPOSER IN THE LATE FOURTEENTH CENTURY

The Douai fragment, a collection of 14th-century musical pieces, contains a unique motet, "Ferre solet," which reveals its composer (Frater Johannes Vavassoris) and composition date (1373) through encoded acrostics. The fragment also sheds light on musical practices of the time, including notation, composition techniques, and the potential function of solus tenors.

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Pandemics and the politics of difference: rewriting the history of internationalism through nineteenth-century cholera

This historical analysis uses 19th-century cholera epidemics to highlight how pandemics expose and exacerbate existing social inequalities and political hierarchies. International responses to cholera, while framed as cooperative, often prioritized the interests of powerful nations and empires, particularly European powers, at the expense of others, especially those in the Ottoman empire.

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Jul 14, 06:44 AM