Sentences with phrase «influential philosophers of science»

Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922 — 1996), a physicist, is one of the most influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century, perhaps the most influential.

According to Karl Popper, one of the most influential philosophers of science in the past millennium, «In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.»

The influential philosopher of science, Karl Popper (1902 - 1994), has convincingly argued that science does not prove to us what is true: its real strength is to show us what is false.

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The French philosopher Etienne Gilson did attempt to address the impact of science while remaining faithful to the tradition, and his book From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again: A Journey in Final Causality (1972) is still influential among some neo-scholastics.

Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, is university professor at Harvard, formerly master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and also a philosopher, with a prodigious and influential bibliography on technical issues in economics, welfare economics, economic development, social philosophy, the role of the non-Western world in world civilization, and the importance of Indian thought and science, among other topics.