Sentences with phrase «many fields of inquiry»

The OECPs mandate directed it away from this field of inquiry.35 The inquiries in Alberta and BC and in Nova Scotia devote less consideration to plans that involve joint cost sharing and governance than does the OECP, and this may reflect the fact that their mandates exclude provincial employee pension plans.

The findings in these new fields of inquiry may possibly require important modifications in the scientific account of human thought, but not, as far as now appears, in the direction of re-establishing a simple body - soul duality.)

In this chapter I shall urge them not to give up their persistence in clinging to the distinctiveness of their field of inquiry in spite of the apparent inroads made into it by the physical sciences.

Whitehead's thought is not limited to metaphysics and science, but to diverse fields of inquiry — mathematical logic, the philosophy of science, cosmology.

That being said, the renewal of interest ought not to be overstated: much doctrinal theology in English remains preoccupied with keeping up a conversation with other fields of inquiry (often literary and cultural theory) and is so eager to do so that it often neglects the descriptive or dogmatic tasks of systematics.

In point of fact, claims to authentic knowledge of man and his becoming appear from many fields of inquiry.

Eventually, Wilson predicts, science will provide a synthesis of all knowledge from all fields of inquiry, from philosophy and literature to art and architecture.

The ability to narrow the field of inquiry is, in my view, an enviable thing, given the very wide range of service into which an introductory course in Old Testament is now being pressed.

One begins with a restricted generalization descriptive of phenomena encountered in one field of inquiry (e.g., physics, physiology, psychology, etc.); one then (as he says) «makes a flight into the thin air of generalization» — framing the description to cover all actualities — finally landing again to see how the theory squares with observed fact in areas other than the one from which the inquiry began.

Then this field of inquiry fairly abruptly ceased being pursued.

The fields of inquiry were divided accordingly: natural science ruled in the realm of nature, and philosophy in the realm of mind.

Philosophy of nature as a field of inquiry ceased to exist.

Earlier, and until about two centuries ago, there had been a main field of inquiry known as philosophia naturalis, the philosophy of nature.

It may be said that the so - called laws of nature have come to expression through the success man has had to date in directing his imagination to particular fields of inquiry.

Metaphysical generalizations may be derived from any specialized field of inquiry.

This is to say, then, that a Christian world view does not, except within the broadest limits, dictate any particular understanding of phenomena; indeed, it can properly be said that there is no such thing as a Christian approach to any field of inquiry — no Christian astronomy or anthropology, for example — just as there is no such thing as a Marxist, or a democratic humanist, approach to phenomenological inquiry.

In general, it is a major subject of comparative politics - which is itself one of the major fields of inquiry within political science.

McNutt's characterization of the paper is drawn from the NSF investigation, which concluded that the researchers were guilty of «an avoidance of protocols, a failure to meet expected scientific standards, a lack of expertise or training in the field of inquiry, poor oversight of less experienced team members, and the misrepresentation of data on which a conclusion was based.

He had shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his son for advancing that field of inquiry.

Her research group will continue to study these proteins and the role they play in neural development and fragile X syndrome — work that's likely to influence other fields of inquiry in autism and beyond.

But it was the Miller experiment, placed in the Darwinian perspective provided by Oparin's ideas and deeply rooted in the 19th - century tradition of synthetic organic chemistry, that almost overnight transformed the study of the origin of life into a respectable field of inquiry.

Comparative oncology continues to be a thriving field of inquiry, one that the Puccini Foundation seeks to support.

Of course, one experiment gone wrong — even dreadfully wrong — shouldn't and hasn't shut down an entire field of inquiry.

The UCSB scientists are making new contributions to this field of inquiry in their studies of seafloor hydrothermal fluid discharge into the Earth's oceans, which has been occurring ever since the oceans first formed four billion years ago.

This achievement demonstrates not only that modern brain research is fast becoming the ultimate multidisciplinary field of inquiry of our time, but that future computer - user interfaces designed by industry, surprising as it may sound, may benefit from a better understanding of the way neural circuits operate in our very own brains.

APSA supports political scientists from all fields of inquiry, regions, and occupational endeavors within and outside academe in order to expand awareness and understanding of politics.

Together, they are putting a new field of inquiry into practice to improve the effectiveness of teaching and the impact of learning.

Questions about how to value experience, education, certification, and pedagogical skills — the big four of teacher inputs — have created one of the most highly contentious fields of inquiry in education, particularly since they have clear implications for the design of teacher compensation systems.

Ph.D. students affiliate with one of three concentrations, each representing a fundamental field of inquiry that addresses critical questions in education reform.

In the process, you will help forge new fields of inquiry that will impact the way we teach and learn.

The Center for World Indigenous Studies Certificate programs are designed for highly motivated individuals who want to focus their education under the tutelage of scholar - practitioners in the fields of inquiry

APSA supports political scientists from all fields of inquiry, regions, and occupational endeavors within and outside academe in order to expand awareness and understanding of politics.

She has a keen mind and finds inspiration from «such disparate fields of inquiry as literature, mathematics, horticulture, film, and music.»

Elapsing over two days, each presentation highlights a different field of inquiry and includes artists from a variety of genres, including Jasmine Nyende, Raquel Gutiérrez, Amanda - Faye Jimenez, and Kristina Wong, among others.

I often work in collaboration with performers who are experts in my given field of inquiry — for instance military interrogation, tea party libertarianism, second wave feminism, etc. — and within a structured framework we collectively build improvisations about politics, power, and authorship.

Both works reflect the artist's interest in parapsychology, a field of inquiry that she has pursued for more than ten years, and which last notably materialized in a contemporary art context as the theme of Creative Time's 2006 group exhibition «Strange Powers.»

This approach to learning allows people to question and interpret what they see, which has broad implications across many fields of inquiry and design.

Many of the objects and artworks, selected by Trockel in dialogue with curator Lynne Cooke, produced a context for the artist's work within other fields of inquiry, such as the natural sciences and natural history.

The letter has a defensive tone that hasn't served scientists particularly well in the past, but is understandable given the pressures that have been mounting on this field of inquiry.

I'd asked Pierrrehumbert to reflect on the time - scale conundrum laid out in the Nature Climate Change paper in the context of another important and provocative proposal by Princeton's Robert Socolow, published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in December, proposing a new field of inquiry — Destiny Studies — to examine the tough intersection of ethics, risk perception and science.

«consilience» was coined in the last century and refers to long - separated fields of inquiry that come together....

Throughout his career he has strived to integrate these three fields of inquiry.

One of the reasons that I say that is that, in the hypothetical analysis, THERE ARE NO TENENTS THAT ARE 50 % in a field of inquiry with such enormous uncertainty?

Still, the incident provides a good opportunity to point out that — as in any active field of inquiry — there are some major gaps in the understanding of climate science.

«They (Craig and Keith Idso) each are providing valuable service to the army of scientists at work in this important, though often overlooked, field of inquiry,» Palmer said.

Commission members met for the first time at The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center last July, and over the last year, have engaged environmental and health scientists, policy specialists, and public health researchers to create the recommendations, analysis, and case studies necessary to advance this field of inquiry.

Just as for those who reject biological evolution, those who reject the findings of direct research into the behavior of Earth's climate must also selectively reject findings from a plethora of other fields of inquiry tangentially germane to climate research, further degrading the self - consistency of their argument.

It employs 120 staffers, 75 of whom are PhD - level researchers, and conducts research among 22 fields of inquiry over seven branches of research: astronomy and astrophysics, geoscience, exoplanets and exploration, exobiology and SETI.

APSA supports political scientists from all fields of inquiry, regions, and occupational endeavors within and outside academe in order to expand awareness and understanding of politics.

Child and infant mental health is recognised as a field of inquiry in the international research literature and has received increased attention in recent decades.