PASTORAL FARMING PRACTICE AND PHILOSOPHY 1974

Recognising European pastoral farming systems

‘Next practice’ for pastoral care and student wellbeing in schools

In Australia, the National Safe Schools Framework [2] sets as a key priority the need for a shared vision of physical and emotional wellbeing for all students in Australian schools, as well as identifying guiding principles and standards to inform practice and assist school communities to build safe and supportive environments. Increasing interest in the emotional health and pastoral care of ch...

Kuhn’s Philosophy of Scientific Practice

Joseph Rouse Wesleyan University The opening sentence of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is often thought to be prophetic. Kuhn proclaimed that “history of science ... could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed” (1970, p. 1). In the decade or so after the book was published in 1962, the dominant philosophical conception of science, logi...

Philosophy, Psychology, Physics and Practice of Ki

Ki (in Japanese) or Qi (in Chinese) is the key concept in Eastern medicine, Eastern philosophy, as well as in martial arts. We explain the philosophical and psychological background of Ki. We emphasize that the unique aspects of Eastern philosophy are 'non-linearity' and 'holistic' approach. We then present physics aspect of Ki. Our experiments demonstrated that a 'Ki-beam' carries 'entropy' (o...

Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics.

A substantial school in the philosophy of science identifies Bayesian inference with inductive inference and even rationality as such, and seems to be strengthened by the rise and practical success of Bayesian statistics. We argue that the most successful forms of Bayesian statistics do not actually support that particular philosophy but rather accord much better with sophisticated forms of hyp...