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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Human factors fostering sustainable safe drinking water [manuscript] : a dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Humanities program in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy /

Etter, Catherine Sughrue. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Salve Regina University, 2006.
102

Gaïa : hypothèse, programme de recherche pour le système terre, ou philosophie de la nature ? / Gaia : hypothesis, research program for the Earth system, or philosophy of nature ?

Dutreuil, Sébastien 02 December 2016 (has links)
Cette thèse est une enquête d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences sur l'hypothèse Gaïa (HG) proposée par Lovelock et Margulis dans les années 1970. L'examen historique de l'élaboration d'HG et de sa très riche réception dans diverses disciplines scientifiques (climatologie, biogéochimie, géochimie, biologie de l'évolution, écologie et sciences de la complexité) et au sein des mouvements environnementalistes nous conduit à montrer qu'une ambiguïté majeure sur le statut d'HG grève la littérature : qu'est-ce qu'HG ? Nous montrons qu'HG a été considérée tantôt comme une hypothèse, tantôt comme une théorie, tantôt comme un programme de recherche, tantôt comme une philosophie de la nature. Chacune de ces lectures est ensuite examinée. Nous proposons une caractérisation épistémologique et historique d'HG montrant qu'HG ne doit pas être interprétée comme une hypothèse devant être confrontée de manière directe aux faits, mais comme une théorie élaborée avec des modèles. Nous clarifions alors le rôle et le statut méthodologique des modèles et théories d'HG ainsi que les concepts et hypothèses fondamentales qui les sous-tendent. La reconnaissance de Gaïa comme un système constitué des vivants et de l'environnement avec lequel ils interagissent a été l'origine de la constitution d'un nouveau programme de recherche: les sciences du système Terre. Nous proposons une histoire et une caractérisation de ce programme, repérons les déplacements philosophiques qu'il a opérés à propos des concepts de vie, d'environnement et de nature puis analysons les liens entre les conceptions que Lovelock a de Gaïa et les prescriptions environnementales qu'il a prononcées au nom de Gaïa. / The Gaia hypothesis (GH) proposed in the 1970's by Lovelock and Margulis is here analyzed from a history and philosophy of science perspective. The historical analysis of GH's elaboration and rich reception across various disciplines (climatology, biogeochemistry, geochemistry, evolutionary biology, ecology and complexity sciences) and within environmentalist movements leads me to argue that a major ambiguity plagues the relevant literatures: what is GH? I show that GH has been considered as a hypothesis, as a theory, as a research program, or as a philosophy of nature. Each of these interpretations is then analyzed. An epistemological and historical characterisation of GH shows that GH should not be interpreted as a hypothesis which ought to be confronted directly to empirical facts, but as a theory elaborated with models. I elucidate the methodological role and status of GH's models and theories before clarifying the concepts and expliciting the fundamental hypotheses underlying these models and theories. The recognition of Gaia as a system constituted of living organisms and the environment with which they internet led to the constitution of a new research program: the Earth system sciences. I offer a history and a characterisation of this research program, specify the philosophical shifts it brought about concepts such as life, the environment and nature and I analyze the relationships between Lovelock's conceptions of Gaia and the environmental prescriptions he pronounced in the name of Gaia.
103

La renommée européenne de Charles Bonnet de Genève: contribution à l'histoire des idées (1738-1850)

Marx, Jacques January 1973 (has links)
Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
104

Yoshimoto Taka’aki’s <i>Karl Marx</i>: Translation and Commentary

Yang, Manuel 30 September 2008 (has links)
No description available.
105

Swarms: Epistemological Encounters in the Early American Environment

Byers, Sheila January 2024 (has links)
Writers of early American texts frequently express astonishment at the abundance of swarming things found in nature, from rustling clouds of insects to ponds teeming with fish to forests of countless trees. They report feeling overwhelmed, fascinated, and threatened by the dynamic, formless grouping of the swarm, in which the distinction between part and whole is lost in a blur of motion. In this dissertation, I trace these experiences of swarming across religious tracts, natural histories, philosophy texts, and historical fiction to argue that the swarm is crucial for understanding early American ways of relating to the environment. Scholars of the colonial period have long maintained that settlers viewed the American continent as a vast and empty land, available for settlement and resource extraction, and that the settler mind sought to manage the perceived chaos of their new surroundings through the application of European systems of thought and order. I argue, however, that the experience of the swarm indicates another kind of environmental relation, one in which the viewer and the natural world become ecologically entangled. In this entanglement, settlers found their preconceived ideas challenged, forcing them to revise or generate anew their theories of the world. While these ecological experiences of the natural world appear in texts by the settler writers Jonathan Edwards, Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, William Bartram, and James Fenimore Cooper, the ideas that develop through the swarm are influenced by or overlap with the epistemologies of the Native American peoples who inhabited the lands these settlers occupied. The project also addresses Indigenous modes of environmental relation and philosophies through Haudenosaunee cosmologies, Maskoke origins stories, and the work of the Tuscarora writer David Cusick. Overall, this dissertation offers an epistemological history of the colonial period that not only revises long- accepted characterizations of the settler mindset but that also takes seriously the histories of Indigenous philosophies as early American intellectual movements. In detailing experiences in which the mind and the natural world are not in fact separate entities, my work presents alternative modes of environmental relation and offers suggestions to today’s urgent need to rethink our orientation toward the natural world.
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Les origines romantiques de la pensée abstraite: histoire et enjeux de l'algèbre moderne

Timmermans, Benoît January 2007 (has links)
Doctorat en Langues et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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Entre habit et habitacle, design de l'habiter : penser l'enveloppe, vers un paradigme de la texilité / From habit to habitacle, design for inhabiting : thinking the envelope, towards a paradigm of textility

Félix-Fromentin, Clotilde 15 November 2013 (has links)
Dans le cadre du projet de « maintenir ou accroître l'habitabilité du monde » (Ezio Manzini, 1991), nous interrogeons la manière de penser l’habiter par le design, qui rencontre de notre point de vue la question des enveloppes de l'homme, artificielles versus biologiques, matérielles versus virtuelles. Le cas de l’habit, hypothétique enveloppe habitable dérivée du vêtement, première architecture selon Gottfried Semper et le « principe du revêtement », retient tout particulièrement notre attention. Le sujet est abordé par une théorisation située à partir d’un projet expérimental personnel de conception et fabrication d’enveloppes textiles, qui attesta d’une rationalité et d’une expansivité tout à fait singulières. Son étude est conduite par une méthode poïétique, au sens de Paul Valéry, qui combine une étude herméneutique des productions, une exégèse de la nature systémique de la démarche (programme et émergences), ainsi qu’une exégèse complémentaire du travail technique en actes (facture et irrégularités). La transdisciplinarité inhérente à la problématique est ainsi envisagée à partir de la pensée de l’art textile de Semper, la pensée poétique et épistémologique de Valéry, et la pensée esthétique complexe issue des sciences du vivant. La construction théorique nous emporte à suggérer, en regard de l’habitabilité, la perspective d’un nouveau paradigme, la textilité. / In context of the project intended to « maintain or increase the habitability of the world » (Ezio Manzini, 1991), we question the way of thinking the dwelling by design, which meets, according to us, the question of human envelopes, artificial versus biological, material versus virtual. The case of the habit, hypothetical inhabitable envelope derived from garment, primary architecture according to Gottfried Semper and the “theory of clothing”, particularly focuses our attention. The subject is approached by a situated theorizing from a personal experimental project of conception and manufacture of textile envelopes, which demonstrated a rationality and expansiveness quite singular. The study is leaded by a poïetic method, as defined by Paul Valéry, combining an hermeneutical study of production, an exegesis of the systemic nature of the process (program and emergences), and an additional exegesis of the technical work through the acts (craft and irregularities). The inherent transversality of the problem is thus considered with means of the thought of textile art of Semper, the poetic and epistemological thought of Valéry, and the complex aesthetic thought outcome from of the life sciences. The theoretical construction takes us to suggest, in comparison with the one of habitability, the way to a new paradigm of textility.

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