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VISION SCIENCE

Thomas F. Freddo, Scott B. Steinman · Optometry and Vision Science · 1998

Optometry and Vision Science is the most authoritative source for current developments in optometry, physiological optics, and vision science. This frequently cited monthly scientific journal has served primary eye care practitioners for more than 75 years, promoting vital interdisciplinary exchange among optometrists and vision scientists worldwide. Official Journal of the American Academy of Optometry.

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VISION SCIENCE

Thomas F. Freddo, Scott B. Steinman · Optometry and Vision Science · 1998

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VISION SCIENCE LECTURES

H. Bedell, Sharon. Steinman · Optometry and Vision Science · 1998

Optometry and Vision Science is the most authoritative source for current developments in optometry, physiological optics, and vision science. This frequently cited monthly scientific journal has served primary eye care practitioners for more than 75 years, promoting vital interdisciplinary exchange among optometrists and vision scientists worldwide. Official Journal of the American Academy of Optometry.

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Science, Economics, “Vision”

Susan Haack · Social research · 2004

Susan Haack Science, Economics, “Vision”* Why... should we not applaud the increasing tendency to envision economics as a science? —r o b e r t h e il b r o n e r (1999:137). AS BOB H E IL B R O N E R WAS T E A C H IN G H IS S E M IN A R ON EC O N O M IC methodology with William Milberg at the New School, I was thinking about philosophy of science: so one frequent topic of discussion in our correspondence was whether the social sciences are properly so called, or whether it is even desirable for these disciplines to aspire to be scien­ tific. In fact, when Defending Science—Within Reason (2003) was finished, I opened my chapter on the social sciences with a quotation from Adolf Lowe, Heilbroner’s own teacher and mentor, to whose work he had introduced me: “[o]nly if a region of inquiry can be opened up in which both the scientific and the humanist approach play their characteristic roles may we ever hope to gain knowledge of man—knowledge rather than figment, and of man rather than of social atom s” (1959: 154). In this chapter, entitled “The Same, Only Different,” guided by the Critical Common-sensist philosophy o f science developed elsewhere in the book, I offered my interpretation of Lowe’s appealing idea of “social science with a human face” by tracing some main similarities, and some main differences between the natural and the social sciences. I didn’t, however, specifically tackle the critique of the scientific aspirations of contemporary economics that Heilbroner had developed *My thanks to Mark Migotti for helpful comments on a draft of this paper.© 2004 Susan Haack social research Vol 71 : No 2 : Summer 2 0 0 4 223 in the new final chapter added to The Worldly Philosophers in its seventh edition, “The End of the Worldly Philosophy?” Given this happy oppor­ tunity to remedy the omission, I want to try to sort out what is true in Heilbroner’s critique of economics-as-a-science from what is not. It will be helpful to begin, however, with some thoughts first about the sciences generally, and then about the social sciences specifically. SO SUCCESSFUL HAVE THE NATURAL SCIEN CES BEEN THAT THE WORDS “science” and “scientific” are often used as all-purpose terms of epistem ological praise conveying, roughly, “strong, precise, indisput­ able, reliable, good.” Television actors in white coats urge us to get our clothes cleaner with new, “scientific” Wizzo; university catalogues offer “management science,” “library science,” “military science,” even “mortuaiy science”; Christian fundamentalists demand equal time for “creation science.” In philosophy of science, this honorific usage has encouraged a preoccupation with the “problem of demarcation,” and a presumption that what distinguishes real science from pretenders is its reliance on a uniquely rational scientific method. In the law of evidence, it has informed the courts’ search for a test to discriminate genuinely scientific, and hence reliable, expert testimony, arrived at by that scientific method, from pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo.1 Unfortunately, this honorific use also obscures what would other­ wise be obvious: that the remarkable achievements of the natural sciences notwithstanding, not all, and not only, natural scientists are good inquirers; some of those who work in the natural sciences are lazy, some incompetent, some crooked, while plenty of historians or legal and literary scholars are good inquirers. And the preoccupation with identifying real science, the genuine article, encourages oversim­ plification of what is actually a complex pattern of overlapping simi­ larities and differences: the natural sciences differ from other human activities such as cooking, clog dancing, architecture, or advocacy in being kinds of inquiry; from other kinds of empirical inquiry such as history, legal or literary scholarship, detective work, or investigative journalism in the kinds of question that fall within their scope; and 224 social research from natural theology, additionally, in the kinds of evidence and expla­ nation they acknowledge as legitimate. Moreover, the preoccupation with “scientific m ethod” has distracted attention from what would otherwise be obvious conti­ nuities between the procedures o f the natural sciences and the procedures...

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Science, Vision, Perspective

Carlo Rovelli · Vision · 2021

Can we 'see' photons, black holes, curved spacetime, quantum jumps, the expansion of the universe, or quanta of space? Physics challenges appearances, showing convincingly that our everyday vision of reality is limited, approximate and badly incomplete. Established theories such as quantum theory and general relativity and investigations like loop quantum gravity have a reputation of obscurity. Many suggest that science is forcing us into a counterintuitive and purely mathematical understanding of reality. I disagree. I think that there is a visionary core at the root of the best science. Where 'visionary' truly means formed by visual images. Our mind, even when dealing with abstract and difficult notions, relies on images, metaphors and, ultimately, vision. Contrary to what is sometimes claimed, science is not just about making predictions: it is about understanding, and, for this, developing new eyes to see. I shall illustrate this point with some concrete cases, including the birth of quantum theory in Einstein's intuition, curved spacetimes and quanta of space.

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Practical Vision Science

Benjamin Balas · 2024

This workbook provides a collection of experiments and observations that use physical materials (rather than digital displays or resources) to reveal fundamental properties of the human visual system. Practical Vision Science centers discovery, observation, and critical thinking. By observing and manipulating visual phenomena, readers gain insights regarding visual processing from the outside world into high-level areas of the visual cortex. The text covers geometric optics, image formation, early stages of visual processing, and inferences regarding brightness, color, depth, motion, and form. The goal is to highlight the critical role that observation of one’s own sensory experiences plays in vision science, while introducing phenomena that provide clues about the computations and constraints that shape our experience of the visual world. Each exercise can be completed with everyday materials, and the text includes discussion of key phenomena readers should be able to observe and the implications of these effects for underlying mechanisms that support visual experience in each case. Practical Vision Science is an essential text for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students of Sensation and Perception, providing the opportunity to learn by doing things rather than reading facts about the visual system on the page.

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Standards for vision science libraries. The Association of Vision Science Librarians.

Unknown · PubMed · 2000

The minimum levels of staffing, services, budget, and technology that should be provided by a library specializing in vision science are presented. The scope and coverage of the collection is described as well. These standards may be used by institutions establishing libraries or by accrediting bodies reviewing existing libraries.

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Optometry and Vision Science

J G SIVAK · Optometry and Vision Science · 1989

School of Optometry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada *Optometrist, Ph.D., Member of Faculty, F.A.A.O.

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The Earth Science Vision

M. R. Schoeberl, D.J. Andrucyk, G. Ryschkewitsch et al. · 2002

One key goal of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise is answering the question: What will sustain the habitability of Earth? To bring this question into focus, and to chart a course to our future, the Earth Science Vision Initiative (ESVI) was established to develop the Earth Science Vision (ESV), a series of key science and application targets which can be achieved in the 2020 time frame and beyond. Assuming a strong partnership with operational and other national agencies, the ESVI has formulated science, technology and information science investment priorities needed to reach the targets. For identified applications, critical technology is paired with required measurements to reach the target. ESVI also takes into account commercial and other agency investments in technology as part of its strategy. It is intended that the ESV process be ongoing with a review of progress toward goals and identification of new targets taking place on an annual basis. The ESV, as it exists today, is a starting point for discussions with other governmental and non-governmental entities. These entities need to reach consensus on participation and the broad requirements needed to reach the Earth science and applications goals.

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