Browsing Philosophy by Author "Branch-Smith, Teresa Yolande"
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Contextualizing Science for Value-Conscious Communication
Branch-Smith, Teresa Yolande (University of Waterloo, 2019-07-15)Democracy hinges on the personal and civic decision-making capabilities of publics. In our increasingly technoscientific world, being well-informed requires an understanding of science. Despite acknowledging public ... -
Reducing the Emergence of the Gaps: Computation for Weak Emergence
Branch-Smith, Teresa Yolande (University of Waterloo, 2014-09-29)This thesis contributes to the growing literature surrounding the importance of weak emergence by showing it can account for more phenomena than originally conceived via the use of computational reduction. Weak emergence ...