Sentences with phrase «much an empirical science»

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Nevertheless, it seems to be a very empirical way of beginning to understand the universe, more radically empirical in fact than science is itself.3 Here we are attending not only to the data of sense - perception but also to a much more proximate set of givens — the experiential components of our own subjectivity.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.

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.»

A 2015 research study by Professor Daniel Mills, Professor or Veterinary Behavioural Medicine at the University of Lincoln's School of Life Sciences in the UK, along with Alice Potter, formerly with the Companion Animals Science Group at the RSPCA, concluded what a lot of us already know based on empirical evidence: Our dog are much more dependent on us than our cats are.

... You see, in science empirical evidence always trumps theory, no matter how much you are in love with the theory.

As others have noted, the IPCC Team has gone absolutely feral about Salby's research and the most recent paper by Dr Roy Spencer, at the University of Alabama (On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy Balance), for one simple reason: both are based on empirical, undoctored satellite observations, which, depending on the measure required, now extend into the past by up to 32 years, i.e. long enough to begin evaluating real climate trends; whereas much of the Team's science in AR4 (2007) is based on primitive climate models generated from primitive and potentially unreliable land measurements and proxies, which have been «filtered» to achieve certain artificial realities (There are other more scathing descriptions of this process I won't use).

«Prove» isn't a word that gets used in matters of empirical science much unless you are cigarette manufacturer, producer of dioxin, or put lead additives in paint.

The Pope's gatekeepers and advisers can take much of the credit for making sure he did not hear about the actual climate science empirical evidence.

This is standard practice in any and all empirical research, and has been pretty much since we started doing observational data - based science.

«Unlike in fields such as public health, much of the empirical work in conservation science fails to control for confounding factors that can mask or mimic the impacts of conservation programs and policies.»

This may well be special pleading, but I think that having the community of climate science understand they are as much as anything dealing with difficult empirical problems and issues in statistical inference.

What I don't understand is why there is so much angst about what is after all only simple empirical observations about the nature of a time series (even if aspects of the analysis maybe open to theoretical debate), and so little curiosity about what this all means for statistical inference more generally in climate science.

Empirical science has since rendered visible much that was previously imperceptible, revealing that humans, too, generate a flow of being.