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    The philosophy of nature: a guide to the new essentialism
    ELLIS, BD (Acumen Publishing, 2002)
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    From indigenous civilization to indigenous modernities: Sacred narratives, Terra Nullius and an Australian bestiarium
    Rundell, J ; ARJOMAND, SA ; TIRYAKIAN, EA (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2004-01-01)
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    Human agency, realism and the new essentialism
    ELLIS, BD ; CLARKE, S ; LYONS, TD (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002)
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    Realism, method, and truth
    SANKEY, H ; MARSONET, M (Ashgate, 2002)
    Rational scientific inquiry is governed by the rules of scientific method. Adherence to the rules of scientific method warrants the rational acceptance of experimental results and scientific theory. Scientists who accept results or theories licensed by the rules of method do so on a rational basis. This chapter assumes a traditional view of the relation between scientific method and rational justification in science. On such a view, there is a close connection between scientific method and the rational acceptance of scientific theories and experimental results. In particular, compliance by a scientist with the rules of scientific method rationally justifies the scientist's acceptance of a theory or result. The chapter discusses a realist bridge between method and truth. Scientific theories make claims about both observable and unobservable states of affairs. Among the claims which theories make about observable states of affairs are predictions of observable phenomena that are made on the basis of hypotheses about unobservable portions of reality.
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    The realness of risk: Gene technology in Germany
    Robins, R (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2002-02)
    This paper examines the material relations of risk within a dispute about the hazards of manufacturing human insulin using gene technology, and the rôle played by the referent 'real risk' in the technical performance of risk in that dispute. It draws on recent work in science and technology studies that extends actor-network theory to examine the performance of reality in scientific practice. The multiplicity of risks in the dispute, and the links made and unmade between them, are examined. I argue that in the dispute, risks were contingently linked and separated around a referent 'real risk' that emerged within the recombinant DNA debate of the late 1970s. I contrast my account of risk with realist and relativist accounts, each of which values risk as an abstract entity. In my account, risk's value is contingent upon sets of material relations that link hazards and procedures for their minimization. Risk's realness emerges as some risks are linked and others separated, working a multiple/singular relation in an ontological politics of risk.
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    Heisenberg and the transformation of Kantian philosophy
    Camilleri, K (Informa UK Limited, 2005-12-01)