Browsing by Author "Hale, Piers"
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Dehn Functions of the Stallings-Bieri Groups and Constructions of Non-Unique Product Groups
Carter, William (2015-05-08)This thesis will consist of two separate halves in which we will present results concerning two different families of finitely generated torsion-free groups. The themes of each half are quite different and are related to ... -
Disagreement And Skepticism: A Grecoian Response To The Skeptical Threat Of Epistemic Superior Disagreement
Osmundsen, Gary (2014-08-15)ABSTRACT: This dissertation is a response to the skeptical threats and challenges leveled by disagreement. Any plausible response to skepticism should explain what knowledge is and explain why the skeptic’s assumptions ... -
The Evolution of Mate Choice in the Genus Limia
Spikes, Montrai (2021-05-14)Mate choice is a discipline of sexual selection research describing the process of an individual biasing resource use to reproduce with preferred mates. Classical theory describes mate choice as only occurring in females ... -
Far From Value-Free: How a Value-Centered Scientific Pluralism Bolsters the Cognitive Credentials of Science
Chau, Andrew (2015)The value-free ideal for science (VFI) prohibits noncognitive values (e.g., social or religious values) from influencing the practice of science. After all, a scientist should not reject an empirical theory (e.g.) on ... -
FISH FACTS: DISCIPLINARY DEVELOPMENT OF ICHTHYOLOGY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE
Scearce, Carolyn (2019)This dissertation chronicles the disciplinary development of ichthyology through the work of three prominent nineteenth-century naturalists: Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), and Albert Günther ... -
Illusions of Progress and Decline in Colonial India: Evolution and degeneration in the works of Pramatha Nath Bose, c. 1910-1930
Sukumaran, Goutham (2024-05-11)In this thesis, I consider the views of Pramatha Nath Bose (1855-1934) as an example of Hindu revivalist appropriations of evolutionary ideas and degeneration to advance anticolonial, socially conservative politics in early ... -
Listening At the Lab: Bird Watchers and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Pope, Jackson (2016-05)Professionalization within the sciences has often been presented as a process of separation between scientists and the public. Implicit within this conception of professionalization is a hierarchical conception of knowledge ... -
Local Lunacy: A Legal, Political, and Spatial History of the Early British Psychiatric System and the Causes for the Lunacy and County Asylums Acts of 1845
Coffman, Rivers (2022-05-14)Between 1774 and 1845, British social outlook towards mental health changed drastically and a new wave of prominent medical people revolutionized the field. Quaker beliefs and Enlightenment philosophy influenced ideas of ... -
Masculine methods: travel narratives and scientific authority in early Victorian Britain
Milburn, Millie (2022-08-04)Feminist formulations have rightly impacted the history of science. In this thesis, I show how in the context of 19th Century Britain, men of science appealed to contemporary norms of masculinity to claim masculine virtues ... -
Ordering Wonder: Collections, Curators, and Showmen in Antebellum America
Burnes, James (2023-12-15)This dissertation explores the development and execution of five museum collections established between the 1793 opening of Charles Willson Peale’s museum in Philadelphia and the opening of the Smithsonian Institution as ... -
Species Transformation and Social Reform: The Role of the Will in Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's Transformist Theory
Testa, Camille (2021)Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is well known as a pre-Darwinian proponent of evolution; however, comparatively little has been published on his views of human physiology and development. This paper argues that the will was of ... -
Systematic Colonization: The Coproduction of Electrification and Colonialism in New Zealand
Kapoor, Nathan (2019-05-10)The central of argument of Systematic Colonization is that in New Zealand’s transition to electric power is inseparable from its colonization. This dissertation integrates energy history, the history of technology, and New ... -
The gilded skull in England's closet : displaying human evolution at the American Museum of Natural History
Burnes, James Marcus (2014) -
Trust: On Acts and Attitudes of Trust
Rollins, Joshua (2016-08)Trust comes in many forms. Trust is, at the very least, both an act and a set of attitudes. In this dissertation, I motivate the distinction between acts and attitudes of trust and offer partial accounts of each. Acts of ...