otheruses No footnotes date February 2009 Consilience , or the unity of knowledge literally a jumping together of knowledge , is the principle that calculating a result by two different methods should lead to the same answer. The word consilience was coined by William Whewell in The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840. Scientific usage In The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Whewell explained that cquote The Consilience of Inductions takes place when an inductive reasoning Induction , obtained from one class of facts, coincides with an Induction obtained from another different class. Thus Consilience is a test of the truth of the Theory in which it occurs. Scientists assume that results from different areas will not contradict. e.g. , different dating methods in geochronology should concur a result in chemistry should not contradict a result in geology . A result is strengthened if it can be reached by different methods. Errors tend to be random for the consensus estimate to be incorrect, the errors would have to be similar for all samples and all methods, which is extremely unlikely. This also means that a single observation of a wildly discordant estimate is not enough ... in understanding other areas. Consilience is thus often used as an argument for scientific realism by philosophers of science. History of the concept Consilience has its roots in the ancient Greek ... . Edward O. Wilson Although the concept of consilience in Whewell s sense was widely discussed ... century, when it was vividly revived in Consilience The Unity of Knowledge , a 1998 book by the humanist ... broader notion of consilience than that of Whewell, who was merely pointing out that generalizations ... References Refbegin Cite book last Wilson first Edward O title Consilience the unity of knowledge ... External links Wiktionary consilience http www.theatlantic.com unbound bookauth ba980318.htm A conversation ... fr Consilience ko fi Konsilienssi ... more details
Consilience is the principle that approaching the same problem by different methods should produce the same result. Other meanings include Consilience book , a 1998 book about consilience by E.O. Wilson. Consilience podcast , a podcast about African science. Consilience , a journal of Sustainability science Journals sustainability science . Consilient , a defunct Canadian technology company. disambig ... more details
morefootnotes date September 2009 prose date September 2009 Consilience The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by biologist E. O. Wilson . In this book, Wilson discusses methods that have been used to unite the sciences and might in the future unite them with the humanities. Wilson prefers and uses the term consilience to describe the synthesis of knowledge from different specialized fields of human endeavor. Definition of consilience Literally a jumping together of knowledge by the linking of facts and fact based theory across disciplines to create a common groundwork of explanation. page 7 Examples of consilience discussed by Wilson Chapter 1 The New Synthesis . Unification of Charles Darwin Darwin s theory of evolution with genetics . Gerald Holton s Ionian Enchantment . The conviction that the world has a unified order and can be explained by physical law natural laws . Theory that water is fundamental . Thales Thales of Miletus proposed that water is the unifying basis for all material things. Often cited as the first materialistic theory of a unified view of nature. Fundamental force .... synthesis . Many examples comparing consilience by reduction dissect a phenomenon into its components and consilience by synthesis predicting higher order phenomena from more basic physical principles ... insect social behavior . Magician to Atom . An example of consilience by reduction in which ... uids 12805675 activation synthesis model of dream ing. Consilience between biology disciplines .... Requires consilience between biology, psychology and computer science. Chapter 7 The relationship ... s Pox by Stephen Jay Gould Wendell Berry wrote a comprehensive critique of Consilience in his essay ... template BookReviewTypeDetail assetid 15718 E. O. Wilson s Consilience A Noble ... s Consilience with the Tree of Knowledge System . http psychweb.cisat.jmu.edu ToKSystem My 20ToK 20Papers PPIHPRevised.pdf Final draft Jamieson, Dale. http www.issues.org 15.1 jamies.htm Consilience , Issues ... more details
Multiple issues advert September 2011 unreferenced September 2011 refimprove September 2011 Infobox Podcast title Consilience image Image ConsiliencePodcastLogo.jpg 350px host Owen Swart br Angela Meadon br Michael Meadon url http consiliencecast.wordpress.com consiliencecast.wordpress.com status Weekly began March 16, 2011 ended genre Science and scientific skepticism skepticism Consilience is a weekly hour long podcast recorded in Johannesburg , South Africa . The show features discussions on science history, Urban myth myths , conspiracy theories , pseudoscience , the paranormal and religion from the point of view of scientific skepticism with special focus on events in Africa . The show also features discussions of recent scientific developments and interviews science journalists, people in the area of science and other famous skeptics. Consilience is the official podcast of the Gauteng Skeptics, a non profit organisation which focuses on building a community of skeptics in and around Gauteng, South Africa. Production The show is recorded in person and each of the hosts contributes towards the editing of the podcast before it is released. Cathy Wagner provides the voice overs for the introduction and closing credits of the show. Segments Opening Consilience opens with co host Owen Swart introducing each of the hosts and giving the date on which the show was recorded. Teaching Angela To Appreciate History In this segment the hosts discuss an historical event that occurred on, or close to, the date that the show is recorded. The name of the segment is a reference to Angela Meadon s alleged disdain for historical events. Updates and Feedback During this segment the hosts respond to listener feedback and update developments on previously covered news topics. News The News segment makes up the majority of the show. The hosts cover scientific and skeptical news events from the week prior to the recording date. Interviews The hosts regularly interview scientists and sk ... more details
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modeled with associated benefits of acquired knowledge and applications. Consilience Gould includes an analysis of E. O. Wilson E. O. Wilson s book Consilience book Consilience The Unity of Knowledge .... He also provides an exegesis of texts participating in the development of the word consilience ... . Gould also reminds the reader that he revived Whewell s concept of consilience in print, prior ... s concept of consilience of inductions into a philosophy of all consuming reductionism in diametric ... s consilience to be a literal jumping together in the mind of diverse facts or phenomenon initially ... more details
Infobox Book name The Martian Way and Other Stories title orig translator image Image Martian way.jpg 200px image caption dust jacket from the first edition author Isaac Asimov illustrator cover artist country United States language English language English series genre Science fiction Novellas publisher Doubleday publisher Doubleday release date 1955 english release date media type Print Hardcover Hardback pages 222 pp isbn NA preceded by followed by The Martian Way and Other Stories is a 1955 collection of four science fiction novella s previously published by Isaac Asimov in 1952 Grammatical conjunction and 1954. Although single author story collections generally sell poorly, The Martian Way and Other Stories did well enough that Doubleday science fiction editor Walter I. Bradbury was willing to publish a second collection, Earth Is Room Enough , in 1957. Contents The Martian Way Asimov s response to the McCarthyism McCarthy Era and an early exploration of terraforming Mars Youth Asimov Youth appeal against human physical anthropocentrism The Deep Asimov The Deep appeal against human psychological anthropocentrism Sucker Bait an assertion of the consilience unity of knowledge Reception Groff Conklin praised the collection as an excellent introduction to the style and to the imagination of one of science fiction s most important writers. ref Galaxy s 5 Star Shelf , Galaxy Science Fiction , October 1955, p.112 ref References Reflist cite book last Tuck first Donald H. authorlink Donald H. Tuck title The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy location Chicago publisher Advent pages 22 date 1974 isbn 0 911682 20 1 External links http www.transhumanist.com volume4 space.htm Possible Costs of Terraforming http www.users.globalnet.co.uk mfogg zubrin.htm Research Paper Technological Requirements for Terraforming Mars Martian Way Asimov story collections DEFAULTSORT Martian Way And Other Stories, The Category Science fiction short story collections by Isaac Asimov Ca ... more details
Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Nova Scotia New Scottish Speculative Fiction title orig translator image Image Scotiv.jpg 200px image caption author Edited by Andrew J. Wilson and Neil Williamson illustrator cover artist country United Kingdom language English language English series genre Science fiction and fantasy anthology publisher Mercat Press release date 2005 english release date media type Print Paperback pages 287 pp isbn 1 84 183086 0 dewey 823.9140809411 22 congress PR8676.5.S33 N68 2005 oclc 62531788 preceded by followed by Nova Scotia New Scottish Speculative Fiction ISBN 1 84 183086 0 is an anthology showcasing Scotland Scottish science fiction and fantasy , compiled by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson . The book was among the finalists for the 2006 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. ref http www.worldfantasy.org awards 2006.html ref Stories The Cost of Pearls by Edwin Morgan poet Edwin Morgan A Case of Consilience by Ken MacLeod Deus ex Homine by Hannu Rajaniemi Not Wisely But Too Well by A.J. McIntosh Third Degree Burns by Andrew J. Wilson Lest We Forget by Marion Arnott The Intrigue of the Battered Box by Michael Cobley Five Fantastic Fictions by Ron Butlin Running on at Adventures by Angus McAllister A Knot of Toads by Jane Yolen Sophie and the Sacred Fluid by Andrew C. Ferguson Vanilla for the Lady by Deborah J. Miller Pisces Ya Bas by Gavin Inglis The Vulture, 4 17 March by Harvey Welles and Philip Raines The Bogle s Bargain by Stefan Pearson Criggie by Matthew Fitt Snowball s Chance by Charles Stross Total Mental Quality, by the Way by William Meikle The Bennie and the Bonobo by Neil Williamson The Hard Stuff by Paul le Page Barnett John Grant Dusk by Jack Deighton References reflist External links http www.infinityplus.co.uk nonfiction novascotiarev.htm Infinityplus review http tangentonline.com index.php?option com content&task view&id 550&Itemid 263 Tangentonline s review Catego ... more details
About a technology company the scientific term Consilience Consilient was a privately held company located in St. John s, Newfoundland and Labrador St. John s , Newfoundland and Labrador , Canada . Other offices were located in San Francisco and Singapore . The company provided push email software for mobile phone s and devices using open standards . As of Monday, November 17, 2008, Consilient shut its doors and laid off all of its employees without pay and without warning. This was due to a move by a major investor, Quorum Group of Companies http www.quorum.ca , to take over the firm. Quorum Group has revealed no plans for the future of the company and several weeks later the company s future was still uncertain. On May 30, 2009, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency ACOA Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, a Federal government incubation fund for private companies announced its intention to sue Consilient for 7.7 million Canadian, the principal that had been invested in Consilient over the years. Products Consilient offered a free Push email application called Consilient Push for mobile phones that supported up to 5 email accounts. POP3 and IMAP4 email accounts were supported as well as Yahoo , Gmail , AOL and Hotmail . The application had photo attaching and sending capability and also supported attachments in MS Word and PDF . Consilient also offered a mobile advertising server solution, allowing telecom companies to easily integrate mobile advertising into their consumer products. References http www.thetelegram.com index.cfm?sid 256052&sc 82 ACOA announces plans to sue Consilient http www.mobilemag.com content 100 344 C7011 Mobile Mag http www.businessweek.com technology content mar2006 tc20060313 003813.htm?chan technology technology index page more of today 27s top stories Business week http www.cbc.ca canada newfoundland labrador story 2008 11 17 consilent closed.html CBC.ca N.L. technology darling Consilient closes its doors External links http www.consilient.com ... more details
toward what E.O. Wilson termed consilience . ref Wilson, E.O. 1999 . Consilience The Unity of Knowledge . Vintage USA ref Consilience is the interlocking of fact and theory into a coherent, holistic ... 2008 . The problem of psychology and the integration of human knowledge Contrasting Wilson s Consilience ... to hamper rather than foster consilience across disciplines . Lilienfield went on further to suggest ... knowledge toward what E.O. Wilson termed consilience . Consilience is the interlocking of fact and theory ... Contrasting Wilson s Consilience with the Tree of Knowledge System. Theory & Psychology, 18, 731 755 ... also ConsilienceConsilience The Unity of Knowledge 1998 book by E.O. Wilson Descriptive psychology ... of psychology and the integration of human knowledge Contrasting Wilson s Consilience with the Tree ... more details
Universology literally means the science of the universe . Popularizing universologic science was a life s work for 19th century intellectual Stephen Pearl Andrews , a futurology futurist utopia n. The word can be used synonymously with consilience , a term Edward Osborne Wilson has popularized with his writings elucidating the apparent unity of all knowledge. In recent years, Dr. Mamoru Mohri , Japan s first astronaut and Director of Japan s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation , has popularized and expanded on universology. For Mohri the universological worldview was an epiphany after seeing the planet from space on two missions in the 1990s, and he has become the chief proponent of universology today. Everything in this universe is part of an uninterrupted sequence of events Mohri has said. Universology, with its relativist and human centered perspective, has vast implications for religion , philosophy and the practice of natural science natural and social science social sciences . In 1872 Stephen Pearl Andrews Andrews published The Basic Outline of Universology which was subtitled An introduction to the newly discovered science of the universe, its elementary principles, and the first stages of their development in the special sciences. Ilya Romanovich Prigogine born on January 25, 1917 was a Belgian and American physicist and chemist who was born in Russia and became a Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry. In the book Order Out of Chaos Man s New Dialogue With Nature , which he co wrote with Isabelle Stengers , another professor at Prigogine s group in the University of Brussels, Prigogine states Altogether, we tend to accept the idea propelled by Dialectical Materialism, regarding the necessity of overcoming the antithesis of humane, historical realm and the material world, perceived as atemporal. We do believe, that the setting rapprochement of these opposites will have to be enhanced, as there will be new approaches which will outline the internal ... more details
Expert subject Genetics date June 2009 A genetic predisposition is a genetics genetic affectation which influences the phenotype of an individual organism within a species or population but by definition that phenotype can also be modified by the natural environment environmental conditions. In the rest of the population, conditions cannot have that effect. Genetic test ing is able to identify individuals who are genetically predisposed to certain disease health problems . Behavior Predisposition is the capacity we are born with to learn things such as language and concept of self. Negative environmental influences may block the predisposition ability we have to do some things. Animal behavior Behaviors displayed by animals can be influenced by genetic predispositions. Genetic predisposition towards certain human behaviors is Ethology scientifically investigated by attempts to identify patterns of human behavior that seem to be invariant over long periods of time and in very different cultures. For example, philosopher Daniel Dennett has proposed that humans are genetically predisposed to have a theory of mind because there has been evolution ary selection for the human ability to adopt the intentional stance . Ref stance The intentional stance is a useful behavioral strategy by which humans assume that others have mind s like their own. This assumption allows you to predict the behavior of others based on personal knowledge of what you would do. It has been proved that there s no genetic predisposition for learning a particular language. Genetic discrimination in health insurance The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act , which was http www.genome.gov 24519851 signed into law by President Bush on May 21, 2008 , prohibits discrimination in employment and health insurance based on genetic information. See also Human nature Edward Osborne Wilson E. O. Wilson s book on sociobiology and his book Consilience discuss the idea of genetic predisposition to behaviors Th ... more details
Unified Science can refer to any of three related strands in contemporary thought. Belief in the unity of science was a central tenet of logical positivism . Different logical positivists construed this doctrine in several different ways, e.g. as a reductionism reductionist thesis, that the objects investigated by the special sciences reduce to the objects of a common, putatively more basic domain of science, usually thought to be physics as the thesis that all of the theories and results of the various sciences can or ought to be expressed in a common language or universal slang or as the thesis that all the special sciences share a common scientific method method . The writings of Edward Haskell and a few associates, seeking to rework science into a single discipline employing a common artificial language. This work culminated in the 1972 publication of Full Circle Haskell Full Circle The Moral Force of Unified Science . The vast part of the work of Haskell and his contemporaries remains unpublished, however. Timothy Wilken and Anthony Judge have recently revived and extended the insights of Haskell and his coworkers. Unified Science has been a consistent thread since the 1940s in Howard T. Odum s systems ecology and the associated Emergy Synthesis , modeling the ecosystem the geochemical, biochemical, and thermodynamic processes of the lithosphere and biosphere . Modeling such earthly processes in this manner requires a science uniting geology, physics, biology, and chemistry H.T.Odum 1995 . With this in mind, Odum developed a Energy Systems Language common language of science based on electronic schematics, with applications to ecology economic systems in mind H.T.Odum 1994 . See also Consilience the unification of knowledge, e.g. science and the humanities Tree of Knowledge System Unity of science References Odum, H.T. 1994. Ecological and General Systems An Introduction to Systems Ecology. Colorado University Press, Colorado. Odum, H.T. 1995. Energy Systems an ... more details
unreferenced date January 2011 infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name The Year s Best Science Fiction Twenty Third Annual Collection title orig translator image image caption author Edited by Gardner Dozois illustrator cover artist country United States language English language English series The Year s Best Science Fiction genre Science fiction anthology publisher St. Martin s Press St. Martin s Griffin release date 2006 english release date media type Print Hardcover and Paperback pages 660 pp isbn ISBN 978 0 312 35335 3 hardcover ISBN 978 0 312 35334 6 paperback oclc 69483800 preceded by The Year s Best Science Fiction Twenty Second Annual Collection followed by The Year s Best Science Fiction Twenty Fourth Annual Collection The Year s Best Science Fiction Twenty Third Annual Collection ISBN 978 0 312 35335 3 is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published in 2006. It is the 23rd in The Year s Best Science Fiction series. Contents The book includes a 30 page summation by Dozois 29 stories, all that first appeared in 2005, and each with a two paragraph introduction by Dozois and a ten page referenced list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows. Ian McDonald author Ian McDonald The Little Goddess Paolo Bacigalupi The Calorie Man Alastair Reynolds Beyond the Aquila Rift Daryl Gregory Second Person, Present Tense Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back From the Stars Michael Swanwick Triceratops Summer Robert Reed Camouflage Ken MacLeod A Case of Consilience Bruce Sterling The Blemmye s Strategem William Sanders writer William Sanders Amba Mary Rosenblum Search Engine Chris Beckett Picadilly Circus David Gerrold In the Quake Zone Liz Williams La Malcontenta Stephen Baxter The Children of Time Vonda N. McIntyre Little Faces Gene Wolfe Comber Harry Turtledove Audubon in Atlantis Hannu Rajaniemi Deus Ex Homine Steven Popkes The Great Caruso Nea ... more details
Literature based discovery refers to the use of papers and other Academic publishing academic publications the literature to find new relationships between existing knowledge the discovery . The technique was pioneered by Don R. Swanson in the 1980s and has since seen widespread use. Literature based discovery does not generate new knowledge through laboratory experiments, as is customary for empirical sciences. Instead it seeks to connect existing knowledge from empirical results by bringing to light relationships that are implicated and neglected . ref Swanson, Don 1988 . Migraine and Magnesium Eleven Neglected Connections. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 31 4 526 557. ref It is marked by empiricism and rationalism in concert or consilience . Swanson linking File Swanson linking.jpg thumb Swanson linking example diagram Swanson linking is a term proposed in 2003 ref Stegmann J, Grohmann G. Hypothesis generation guided by co word clustering. Scientometrics. 2003 56 111 135. As quoted by Bekhuis ref that refers to connecting two pieces of knowledge previously thought to be unrelated. ref cite journal last Bekhuis first Tanja title Conceptual biology, hypothesis discovery, and text mining Swanson s legacy publisher BioMed Central Ltd. year 2006 pmc 1459187 ref For example, it may be known that illness A is caused by chemical B, and that drug C is known to reduce the amount of chemical B in the body. However, because the respective articles were published separately from one another called disjoint data , the relationship between illness A and drug C may be unknown. Swanson linking aims to find these relationships and report them. See also Latent semantic indexing Implicature Metaphor References Chen, Ran Hongfei Lin & Zhihao Yang 2011 . Passage retrieval based hidden knowledge discovery from biomedical literature. Expert Systems with Applications An International Journal August, 2011 , vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 9958 9964. Abstract ... automatic extraction of the ... more details
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Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Year s Best SF 11 title orig translator image image caption author Edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer illustrator cover artist country United States language English language English series Year s Best SF genre Science fiction anthology publisher HarperCollins Eos release date 2006 english release date media type Print Paperback pages 496 pp isbn 0 06 087341 8 oclc 69998796 preceded by Year s Best SF 10 followed by Year s Best SF 12 Year s Best SF 11 ISBN 0 06 087341 8 is a science fiction anthology edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer that was published in 2006 . It is the eleventh in the Year s Best SF series. Contents The book itself, as well as each of the stories, has a short introduction by the editors. David Langford New Hope for the Dead Originally in Nature journal Nature , 2005 Hannu Rajaniemi Deus Ex Homine Originally in Nova Scotia New Scottish Speculative Fiction , 2005 Gardner Dozois Gardner R. Dozois When the Great Days Came Originally in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction F&SF , 2005 Daryl Gregory Second Person, Present Tense Originally in Asimov s Science Fiction Asimov s , 2005 Justina Robson Dreadnought Originally in Nature , 2005 Ken MacLeod A Case of Consilience Originally in Nova Scotia , 2005 Tobias S. Buckell Toy Planes Originally in Nature , 2005 Neal Asher Mason s Rats Originally in Asimov s , 2005 Vonda N. McIntyre A Modest Proposal Originally in Nature , 2005 Rudy Rucker Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch Originally in Interzone magazine Interzone , 2005 Peter F. Hamilton The Forever Kitten Originally in Nature , 2005 Matthew Jarpe City of Reason Originally in Asimov s , 2005 Bruce Sterling Ivory Tower Originally in Nature , 2005 Lauren McLaughlin Sheila Originally in Interzone , 2005 Paul McAuley Rats of the System Originally in Constellations , 2005 Larissa Lai I Love Liver A Romance Originally in Nature , 2005 James Patrick Kelly ... more details
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