Sentences with phrase «mechanistic science»

And mechanistic science is often internally contradictory — soy protein increases IGF - 1, yet in Far East Asian societies, soy appears to be protective against some common cancer types.

However, Newton accepted membership in the British Royal Society, which was dedicated to the promotion of mechanistic science.

But this next chapter will make no sense at all unless we have grasped the distinction between the world as it appears on the one hand outwardly and as revealed by mechanistic science, and on the other hand the world that is hidden beneath appearances but is as real.

Classical mechanistic science said the world was made of bits of matter organized into bigger bits.

Mechanistic science assumes that the world is made of unchanging building blocks — call them protons, atoms, or what you will.

Corpuscular societies consisting of low — level occasions, such as rocks and billiard balls, display little originality, thereby providing ideal instances of efficient causality for mechanistic science.

Lotze, in placing emphasis upon the disclosure of the spiritual reality in its effects, cut a path between a mechanistic science and an abstract metaphysics and thus was more immediately available to the religiously motivated mind of the period, say from 1880 to the early nineteen twenties.

Now many Chinese realize that a society can not live by mechanistic science alone.

Not exact matches

(4) Descriptions of evolutionary mechanisms also share in the mechanistic and materialistic biases of science — which easily becomes translated into materialism as a world view.

Being mechanistic, modern science is also historicist: It argues that a complete description of the efficient and material causal history of an entity is a complete explanation of the entity itself» in other words, that an understanding of how something came to be is the same as understanding what it is.

Some theists have accepted this challenge, arguing that it is the mechanistic assumptions of modern science rather than any empirical data that lead to this conclusion.

I have a lot of faith in science, not in the unscientific assumption that atheists make that reality is purely mechanistic, but in the procedures of testing hypotheses, questioning assumptions, measuring results, replicating experiments, and in general debating and persuading based on actual evidence.

At Dupont, mechanistic, positivistic neuroscience is the Queen of the sciences.

At a time when the physical sciences have dissolved the atoms of Democritus, the particles of Newton and the mechanisms of Descartes into downy abstractions, biology has become more and more atomistic and mechanistic.

Nevertheless, the lag between other sciences and physics in these matters and the persistence of (the) mechanistic imagery in psychology and the social sciences have been real obstacles to taking this revolution in fundamental notions seriously throughout the various disciplines.

One could assert that for science mechanistic evolutionary theory is true, and that human beings are fully part of the evolved world.

Without these, there will be no progress in science and specifically now, no breaking of the power of the deeply entrenched mechanistic worldview.

On the other hand, areas of research such as biology and psychology are subjected to a mechanistic interpretation which tends to deprive them of their specificity as sciences.

There is now a growing realization that science, as such, does not require a mechanistic worldview.

The easiest «solution» to such a dilemma is to be schizophrenic: accept the mechanistic view in science and to accept freedom and responsibility in personal relations, politics and religion.

To be sure, the mechanistic, deterministic, substantialist view is still dominant in the sciences.

Each of these approaches bifurcated the relation between science and religion, and adopted the dominant mechanistic, deterministic, substantialist view of reality.

This discussion of the «participant observer» gets at the crux of the difference between the mechanistic, deterministic, substantialist presuppositions of much of modern science and the process - relational vision.

A small but growing number of scientists have been critical of the materialistic, mechanistic, deterministic, substantialist premises of modern science.

In its encounter with the sciences, process thought has not only appropriated new scientific insights but has attempted a mutual transformation through which the sciences are liberated from the dominance of the mechanistic, deterministic, substantialist view into a holistic relational vision that is more coherent, consistent, adequate to the facts, and congruent with the best in the contemporary scientific enterprise itself.

The importance of all this is that the origin of modern science was not dependent upon a mechanistic view of the world.

The science of biology presented me with a mechanistic or substance image of reality which provided no clues at all to the meaning of my life and its fundamental experiences of value.

However, the dominant mood of science became mechanistic.

The concept of a mechanistic universe became the dominant worldview soon after the rebirth of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The dominant model of nature derived from science is mechanistic or substantialist.

Beginning with a mechanistic version of Lamarck's speculative evolutionist hypothesis, he resolves to apply the concept of «evolution» to every branch of science and learning.

On the other hand it presented the case for the modern worldview as mechanistic and bound inevitably to progress on the wings of science.

Neither the new science nor the new religion can be contained in the old formula of a legal — mechanistic universe; that is, the image of a universe running according to rules laid down by an external law - maker.

But the mechanistic view of nature in deism can itself be challenged, as we will see, from the standpoint of post-Newtonian science.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A collection of essays by prominent physicists, biologists, geneticists, zoologists, philosophers and other thinkers about the relationship between science and philosophy, particularly the teleological versus the mechanistic explanation of the universe.

It is instructive in this regard to cite Bergson's letter to C. Lloyd Morgan of November 21, 1912, expressing his belief that science did not have to remain as mechanistic as it was in their time.21

Science should, and indeed does, talk about a real natural world, but we are arguing that the assumption that it is best described as matter, and in mechanistic terms, is incorrect.

I can not do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science.

But anyhow, at least with Hobbes and Locke, the mechanistic aspects were understood to be part of a larger political concern, so that these attempts were almost — or arguably even were — a form of political science.

In this paper I will try to show that the world view of process cosmology is reasonable from the standpoint of ordinary mechanistic, reductionistic science.

«Traditional medicine doesn't consider mechanistic drug response,» said Rongling Wu, director of the Center for Statistical Genetics and professor of public health sciences within the division of biostatistics and bioinformatics at the Penn State College of Medicine.

Sweeney found that the mechanistic answers that Pinker offered about the mind — the brain - based mechanisms of thought and consciousness being discovered by modern neuroscience — inspired her to replace her Catholic faith with science's empirical skepticism, which she finds, after many hilarious detours, «a much more powerful and reliable tool for understanding the world.»

Regenerative medicine represents a new frontier in science, which seeks to understand the mechanistic basis of tissue aging, repair, and regeneration and to leverage this knowledge to improve human health.

Correlation supersedes causation, and science can advance even without coherent models, unified theories, or really any mechanistic explanation at all.

«It is important to begin mechanistic studies of these declines,» the team concludes in a paper presenting the finding published in today's Science, «with habitat alteration, climate change and agricultural chemical usage being potential key drivers of observed shifts.»

For this work, he has used a number of ultra-high vacuum surface science techniques to, for example, identify and explain several very unusual mechanistic features of the heterogeneous chemistry occurring in a catalytic converter including: a) the dramatically different CO oxidation reaction mechanism on ruthenium metal relative to other late transition metals; b) the structure sensitive selectivity of the NO reduction reaction on rhodium metal; c) deactivation of rhodium metal at high oxygen partial pressures; and d) the significantly different CO oxidation reaction mechanism over oxidized rhodium metal.

Spectroscopy & Application of Lasers, Zare / Moerner / +, 6 - 1 Nuclear Hormone Signaling, Chambon / Evans / Jensen, 6 - 1 Bioinorganic Chemistry, Gray / Lippard / Holm / — , 8 - 1 The Field (everything not listed), 10 - 1 Techniques in DNA Synthesis, Caruthers / Hood / +, 10 - 1 Electrochemistry / Electron Transfer, Bard / Hush / Gray / — , 19 - 1 Instrumentation / Techniques in Genomics, Venter / +, 19 - 1 Biological Membrane Vesicles, Rothman / Schekman / +, 19 - 1 Molecular Studies of Gene Recognition, Ptashne, 19 - 1 Organic Electronics, Tang / +, 39 - 1 Polymer Science, Matyjaszewski / Langer / + / — 69 - 1 Solar Cells, Grätzel / +, 74 - 1 Mechanistic Enzymology, Walsh / Stubbe / Koshland / + / — , 74 - 1 Combinatorial Chemistry / DOS, Schreiber / +, 99 - 1 Pigments of Life, Battersby / +, 99 - 1 Development of the Birth Control Pill, Djerassi, 99 - 1 Molecular Modeling and Assorted Applications, Karplus / Houk / Schleyer / Miller / + / — , 99 - 1 Applications of NMR Spectroscopy, Pines / Roberts / McConnell / + / — , 99 - 1 Development of Chemical Biology, Schultz / Schreiber / +, 99 - 1 Self - Assembly, Whitesides / Nuzzo / Stang / — , 149 - 1 Small Regulatory RNA, Ambros / Baulcombe / Ruvkun, 149 - 1 Nanotechnology, Lieber / Whitesides / Alivisatos / Mirkin / Seeman / + / — , 149 - 1 Eukaryotic RNA Polymerases, Roeder, 149 - 1 Contributions to Theoretical Physical Chemistry, Rice / +, 149 - 1 Mechanical Bonds and Applications, Sauvage / Stoddart / +, 149 - 1 Bio - & Organo - catalysis, List / Lerner / Barbas / + / — , 149 - 1 Organic Synthesis, Evans / Danishefsky / Nicolaou / Ley / Trost / Stork / Wender / Kishi / + / — , 199 - 1 Leptin, Coleman / Friedman / Leong, 199 - 1 Fluorocarbons, DuPont / Curran / — , 199 - 1 Understanding of Organic Stereochemistry, Mislow, 199 - 1 Tissue Engineering, Langer / +, 199 - 1 Contributions to Bioorganic Chemistry, Breslow / Eschenmoser / +, 199 - 1 Dendrimers, Frechet / Tomalia / +, 399 - 1 Zeolites, Flanigan, 399 - 1 Molecular Recognition, Dervan / +, 399 - 1 Molecular Machines, Stoddart / Tour / + / — , 399 - 1 Astrochemistry, Oka, 999 - 1

Multiple types of spectroscopy and electron microscopy capabilities available at EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE Office of Science user facility on the PNNL campus, allowed the scientists to understand the catalyst surface at the atomic level and provide mechanistic insight into how oxygen vacancies migrate to the surface of the cerium oxide, creating pathways for highly active carbon monoxide conversion.

Seeing the value of a quantitative, mechanistic framework for rigorous analyses of RNA catalysis truly changed my approach to science forever.

What we are learning from hard science is decimating our mechanistic perspective on the body as input - output machine to be manipulated and managed by chemicals.