Index Catalog // ScholarsArchive@OSU

Start Over

Filtering by: Creator Ricard, Jacques Louis Committee Member Guerrini, Anita

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

Creator:

Blanchard, Nicholas

Abstract:

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...

Resource Type:

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

Creator:

Richards, Linda Marie

Abstract:

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...

Resource Type:

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

Creator:

Tattersall, Mason

Abstract:

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...

Resource Type:

Dissertation