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4A Tale of Two Towns in Aragón:Anzánigo and Izarbe of the Spanish PyreneesSociedad Cultural Aladrada. 2021.A history of two small towns in the Spanish Pyrenees, Anzánigo and Izarbe. ISBN 978-84-124132-0-5
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45Yale Gallery Talk, Language Perception and RepresentationHttps://Drive.Google.Com/File/D/1YHzX_YR_wOWC3JUvfBcW7KucWX0Wlr_o/View. forthcoming.Yale Gallery Talk, Language Perception and Representation Tanya Kelley and James Prosek Linguist and artist Tanya Kelley, Ph.D., and artist, writer, and naturalist James Prosek, B.A. 1997, discuss color manuals used by artist-naturalists and biologists and lead visitors in close looking and drawing. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition James Prosek: Art, Artifact, Artifice. Space is limited. Open to: General Public
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283Santiago Ramón y Cajal practice what became neuroscience in the remote town of Ayerbe, Aragón Spain. He struggled to travel to conferences in northern Europe to share his remarkable discovery.
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7Nine Colour Articles in Encyclopedia BritannicaEncyclopedia Britannica. 2019.Nine colour articles in Encyclopedia Britannica.
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1698World to Word: Nomenclature Systems of Color and SpeciesDissertation, University Of Missouri. 2017.As the digitization of information accelerates, the push to encode our surrounding numerically instead of linguistically increases. The role that language has traditionally played in the nomenclature of an integrative taxonomy is being replaced by the numeric identification of one or few quantitative characteristics. Nineteenth-century scientific systems of color identification divided, grouped, and named colors according to multiple characteristics. Now color identification relies on numeric va…Read more
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189James Prosek paints flora and fauna, but first became known for his paintings of trout. This essay situates Prosek's paintings, especially those at the Lowe Museum exhibit, within the long tradition of the depiction of nature. The essay comments on the relationship between the representation of nature and the nature of representation.
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310Building on Sellars: Concept Formation and Scientific Realism (review)Metascience 17 (2): 257-259. 2008.Harold Brown has written an ambitious work, which traces the formation of concepts in individuals and cultures, examines case studies of concepts in calculus, mathematics, biology and related fields, summarises important philosophical works on the theory of concepts, and seeks to reconcile scientific realism with conceptual change. Brown considers himself a scientific realist but concedes that this very label is one that depends on a long history of concepts that came before, and may indeed be s…Read more
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2732"Goethe's Plant Morphology: The Seeds of Evolution"Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 1 (1): 1-15. 2007.I argue that Goethe’s scientific writings carry in them the seeds of the theory of evolution. Goethe’s works on plant morphology reflects the conflicting ideas of his era on the discreteness and on the stability of species. Goethe’s theory of plant morphology provides a link between the discontinuous view of nature, as exemplified in works of the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), and the continuous view of nature, as exemplified in the work of the English naturalist Charles Darwin (180…Read more
University of Missouri, Kansas City
PhD, 2017
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Words |
Category Theory |
Species Concepts |
Color Terms |
Areas of Interest
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