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Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

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Hahn, Andre M.

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This dissertation examines the impact of the German naturalist and literary figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s ideas on twentieth century Anglophone plant morphology and biology. Goethe interpreted the organ forms of flowering plants as metamorphoses of each other. His literary, historical, and philosophical writings suggest themes of alienation from and...

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Translating the Animal

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Owen, Melody

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My thesis in Environmental Arts and Humanities concerned the idea of animal language, as well as other posthuman ideas around animality and indistinction. I also explored virtual space as it relates to human identity, our notions of reality and perception, and the way contemporary digital artists approach animal subjectivity in...

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Mars and Popular Astronomy, 1890-1910

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Simpson, Emily M.

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Beginning in the late-nineteenth century, several dialogues emerged concerning life on Mars. Some supported the notion of an inhabited Mars, citing recent observations of the planet, while others, pointing to a lack of concrete evidence, denied the validity of such a bold hypothesis. The dialogues within and between different...

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Exploring the structural dynamics of human understanding : an historico-philosophical analysis of the problem of meaning in Heidegger and Bohr

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Tattersall, Mason

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This dissertation explores the structural dynamics of human understanding and particularly the concept of meaning and its connections to concepts of ultimate ground, necessity and contingency, language, and perception. It focuses on the history of the concept of meaning in early twentieth-century European physics and philosophy, through an analysis of...

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Dissertation
Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

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Blanchard, Nicholas

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By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in biology. Volumes had been written about domestication, but little serious scientific inquiry was directed toward the phenomenon. Expertise lay with practical men, primarily breeders and fanciers. The bulk of scientific commentary on domestication came from anthropologists who derived theories...

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Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

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Richards, Linda Marie

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The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...

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The Schultz Fire: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on its History, Management, and Ecological Effects

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Ranseen, Susanne N.

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This thesis examines the Schultz Fire as a case study to explain the complex history of fire suppression management in America’s forests, and to gain further understanding of how management practices have affected the increase in fire severity levels and how forests respond to such a disturbance. The thesis objectives...

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History, Philosophy, and Religion5

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Farber, Paul L.1
Hamblin, Jacob D.1
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin1
Harmon, Mark E.1
Luft, David1
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Osborne, Michael2
Bailey, John D.1
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Owen, Melody1
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2010-20197

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History of Science5
Environmental Arts and Humanities1
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Sustainable Forest Management1

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Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (M.A.I.S.)1

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English [eng]7

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Oregon State University. Graduate School4

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Avatars (Virtual reality)1
Bohr, Niels, 1885-19621
Computer animation1
Domestication -- History -- 20th century1
Ecology1
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