Sandy Boucher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandy Boucher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandy |
| FAMILY NAME | Boucher |
| SIGNATURE | BOUCHER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New England |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
What was really wrong (and right) with vitalism? Methodological naturalism, organicism and immaterialist theories in biology
There has been considerable discussion in recent years of methodological naturalism in the sciences: the question of whether science does, or should, operate under the assumption that it may only investigate natural phenomena or offer natural explanations, and what form this assumption does or should take. Most of the discussion has centred around theories such as intelligent design creationism, but in this paper I argue that vitalism in biology-…
Green fields, ugly ducklings and black swans: Aesthetic dimensions of ecological science
Despite its relative infancy, ecological science plays a pre‐eminent role in current environmental decision‐making globally and has, over recent decades, permeated a broad range of academic disciplines. Developments in two areas of philosophical thought in particular, environmental aesthetics and the aesthetics of science, beg an exploration of their intersection with respect to the role of aesthetics in ecological science. Here, we provide a con…
Humming
How glad I am that she doesn’t look like any of my three daughters. In the last years especially, in which I have pursued a meditation practice and the study of the great, elegant texts of Buddhism, often I have felt that time does not exist, or that all of it exists in this very moment, or that the space of a lifetime is no bigger than a drop of dew trembling on a petal of a flower, and as evanescent. Given this perspective, what can our relativ…
Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
A computational approach to linguistic knowledge
The rejection of behaviorism in the 1950s and 1960s led to the view, due mainly to Noam Chomsky, that language must be studied by looking at the mind and not just at behavior. It is an understatement to say that Chomskyan linguistics dominates the field. Despite being the overwhelming majority view, it has not gone unchallenged, and the challenges have focused on different aspects of the theory. What is almost universally accepted, however, is Ch…
Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism
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Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism
A computational approach to linguistic knowledge
The rejection of behaviorism in the 1950s and 1960s led to the view, due mainly to Noam Chomsky, that language must be studied by looking at the mind and not just at behavior. It is an understatement to say that Chomskyan linguistics dominates the field. Despite being the overwhelming majority view, it has not gone unchallenged, and the challenges have focused on different aspects of the theory. What is almost universally accepted, however, is Ch…
Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
Humming
How glad I am that she doesn’t look like any of my three daughters. In the last years especially, in which I have pursued a meditation practice and the study of the great, elegant texts of Buddhism, often I have felt that time does not exist, or that all of it exists in this very moment, or that the space of a lifetime is no bigger than a drop of dew trembling on a petal of a flower, and as evanescent. Given this perspective, what can our relativ…
Green fields, ugly ducklings and black swans: Aesthetic dimensions of ecological science
Despite its relative infancy, ecological science plays a pre‐eminent role in current environmental decision‐making globally and has, over recent decades, permeated a broad range of academic disciplines. Developments in two areas of philosophical thought in particular, environmental aesthetics and the aesthetics of science, beg an exploration of their intersection with respect to the role of aesthetics in ecological science. Here, we provide a con…
What was really wrong (and right) with vitalism? Methodological naturalism, organicism and immaterialist theories in biology
There has been considerable discussion in recent years of methodological naturalism in the sciences: the question of whether science does, or should, operate under the assumption that it may only investigate natural phenomena or offer natural explanations, and what form this assumption does or should take. Most of the discussion has centred around theories such as intelligent design creationism, but in this paper I argue that vitalism in biology-…
Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Black swan theory (1 works) · Buddhism (1 works)