Theses - History and Philosophy of Science
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Predicting the Effectiveness of Medical Interventions
This dissertation explores several conceptual and methodological features of medical science that influence our ability to accurately predict medical effectiveness. Making reliable predictions about the effectiveness of ... -
The Machine–Organism Distinction
The idea that analysis of organisms can proceed by distinguishing organisms from machines is common to many areas of philosophy. This thesis argues that our search for a philosophy of organisms should not proceed by defining ... -
Leonardo’s Tomb: Exhibitions of Early Flight Technology at the Deutsches Museum, Science Museum and Smithsonian, 1903 – 2003
(2021-07-16)This thesis is an account of the aeronautical collections of three museums, the Science Museum, the Deutsches Museum and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, as they were developed and displayed between 1903 and ... -
Inventing Intelligence: On the History of Complex Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence in the United States in the Mid-Twentieth Century
In the mid-1950s, researchers in the United States melded formal theories of problem solving and intelligence with another powerful new tool for control: the electronic digital computer. Several branches of western ...
