Sentences with phrase «general philosophy of science»

Betz, G. (2009a) «Underdetermination, model - ensembles and surprises: On the epistemology of scenario - analysis in climatology», Journal for General Philosophy of Science.

Her research focuses mainly on historical and modern theories of innovation, narrative theories, general philosophy of science and epistemology with special consideration of philosophy of synthetic chemistry and the pharmaceutical sciences.

If you want to know more about the general philosophy of science utilized in political science, you'd want to focus on the works of Karl Popper.

See William Austin, «Paradigms, Rationality and Partial Communication», Journal of General Philosophy of Science (to appear in 1973).

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This more general science is traditionally known as the philosophy of nature.

MN — David Ray Griffin, «Whitehead's Philosophy and Some General Notions of Physics and Biology,» Mind in Nature: Essays on the Interface of Science and Philosophy, edited by John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin.

If you get a general notion of what is meant by perishing, you will have accomplished an apprehension of what you mean by memory and causality, what you mean when you feel that what we are is of infinite importance, because as we perish we are immortal — Essays in Science and Philosophy 117.

The Need for a New Philosophy of Science Massimo Pigliucci, associate editor for Biology & Philosophy and member of the Philosophy of Science Association has, in his Philosophy Now column, emphasised the philosophical incompatibility of the success of scientific method with a priori, transcendental metaphysics (e.g. of Kant), whilst acknowledging the general lack of a coherent philosophy oPhilosophy of Science Massimo Pigliucci, associate editor for Biology & Philosophy and member of the Philosophy of Science Association has, in his Philosophy Now column, emphasised the philosophical incompatibility of the success of scientific method with a priori, transcendental metaphysics (e.g. of Kant), whilst acknowledging the general lack of a coherent philosophy of sScience Massimo Pigliucci, associate editor for Biology & Philosophy and member of the Philosophy of Science Association has, in his Philosophy Now column, emphasised the philosophical incompatibility of the success of scientific method with a priori, transcendental metaphysics (e.g. of Kant), whilst acknowledging the general lack of a coherent philosophy oPhilosophy and member of the Philosophy of Science Association has, in his Philosophy Now column, emphasised the philosophical incompatibility of the success of scientific method with a priori, transcendental metaphysics (e.g. of Kant), whilst acknowledging the general lack of a coherent philosophy oPhilosophy of Science Association has, in his Philosophy Now column, emphasised the philosophical incompatibility of the success of scientific method with a priori, transcendental metaphysics (e.g. of Kant), whilst acknowledging the general lack of a coherent philosophy of sScience Association has, in his Philosophy Now column, emphasised the philosophical incompatibility of the success of scientific method with a priori, transcendental metaphysics (e.g. of Kant), whilst acknowledging the general lack of a coherent philosophy oPhilosophy Now column, emphasised the philosophical incompatibility of the success of scientific method with a priori, transcendental metaphysics (e.g. of Kant), whilst acknowledging the general lack of a coherent philosophy ophilosophy of sciencescience.

But believing in the Bible as a fact of the Universe is a good sign that the person doesn't know much of history, comparative religion, philosophy or science in general.

whole is, is not a question for the natural sciences as such at all, but a question for ontology within a general philosophy of man.

I am a perpetual student of science and philosophy, religion and humanity, history and life in general.

Even the latest major theological empiricists — Henry Nelson Wieman, Bernard Meland, and Bernard Loomer — did not have time to absorb the full impacts of the Kuhnian revolution in the philosophy of science, the neopragmatism extending from Willard Quine to Richard Rorty, the Continental movements of hermeneutics and deconstructionism, nor the epistemological effects that accompany the general demise of white, male, and Western hegemonies.

These include lecture notes for Whitehead's «Philosophy of Science: General Metaphysical Problems,» (Philosophy 3b), which met Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 12:00 noon (1:332).

But his failure to justify this distinction, by showing how to map a domain of rationality in which the elucidation of metaphysical concepts followed the secure path of a science («in accordance with the example set by geometers and physicists») indicates a general limitation on natural philosophy.

Also, in a letter to Mark Barr concerning the possibility of being offered a post at Harvard, Whitehead says the post would be very attractive because it would provide him the opportunity of developing in systematic form his «ideas on Logic, the Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, and some more general questions, half philosophical and half practical, such as Education» (ANW - 2 134).

As one concerned with the philosophy of science rather than philosophy in general, I must take the latter view, recognizing that there is a great deal that science does not and probably never will know.

Presumably including the philosophy of science in his general use of the word «science» he says: «Until now science hasn't been able to prove whether God exists or not - whatever God may be.

In fact, process philosophers have written relatively little about ethics in general; their major contributions to contemporary philosophy, like those of Whitehead himself, have been in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion.1

Even those who have never studied philosophy will recognize his name as the author of «Ockham's Razor» — the principle (still used in the sciences as well as in philosophy) that, as a general rule, the simpler of two explanations should be preferred.

The sciences of nature know nothing of spiritual presences, and on the whole hold no practical commerce whatever with the idealistic conceptions towards which general philosophy inclines.

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Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

Acclaimed philosopher and historian A.C. Grayling points to three primary factors that led to the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature; the rise of the individual as a general and not merely an aristocratic type; and the invention and application of instruments and measurement in the study of the natural world.

Modernism, in general, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, philosophy, social organization, activities of daily life, and even the sciences, were becoming ill - fitted to their tasks and outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an emerging fully industrialized world.

Defining the scientific method in general terms is actually a really hard problem, which philosophers of science, and practicing scientists with an interest in philosophy, have struggled with for a century without coming to any sort of consensus.

What is needed by general non-technical citizens (the vast majority I would suppose), is basic knowledge of the philosophy of science, and good epistemological skills.

Newyork About Blog Here you will find links to the professional and public writings of Professor Massimo Pigli, a philosopher at the City College of New York.Topics range from general philosophy to philosophy of science to the modern practice of the ancient philosophy of Stoicism, because all (Western) philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.