Sentences with phrase «natural sciences work»

An important step towards this direction should be that cultural and natural sciences work together to create a common conceptual framework for developmental science.

For the natural sciences it worked pretty well for centuries, but it wrecked metaphysics and it more or less ruined theology.

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The UK's Natural Environment Research Council said research teams from the two countries will work together on five projects, to receive funding from the Joint UK - China Renewable Energy program as well as financial support from NERC and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

This historical contextualization has even been shown, as in the work of Thomas Kuhn, to be applicable to the thinking of the natural sciences.

That book changed Kass's life and helped move him toward his own remarkable work in bringing together science, medicine, and a philosophy worthy of human beings, as in his own Toward a More Natural Sscience, medicine, and a philosophy worthy of human beings, as in his own Toward a More Natural ScienceScience.

We might note the obvious influence of Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History upon Bénéton's framing of modernity, but he works out the implications of historicist relativism and Weberian social science in ways that are more attuned to both the contemporary academy and to our day - to - day lives.

The Church - which ushered into existence the great universities of Europe, which established hospitals and schools, which pioneered work in medicine and literature and art and music and the exploration of all the natural sciences - is interested in truth.

Christians who work in the natural sciences are dogged by a persistent bogeyman: a singular creature called the God of the gaps.

It is to be hoped that as the centre develops in its work, so it will broaden its outlook so that the natural sciences, the single most influential strand of philosophical thought in modern times, is not left out of the conversation.

The uniformity of natural law, on which science rests, is unexplainable except as the work of an infinite Lawgiver.

Science and technology are natural allies to this Judeo - Western optimism, especially if we remain open to an eschatological frame in which God works through us in building the kingdom of heaven today, here on Earth — in which the kingdom of heaven is both a future reality and something partially achieved in the present.

At the time Thornton had closely read The Concept of Nature (1920) and Principles of Natural Knowledge (2d edition, 1925), tended to interpret Science and the Modern World (1925) in line with these earlier works, and was acquainted with Religion in the Making (1926) though somewhat unsure what to make of its doctrine of God.2 He took comfort in Whitehead's remark concerning the immortality of the soul, and evidently wanted to apply it to all theological issues: «There is no reason why such a question should not be decided on more special evidence, religious or otherwise, provided that it is trustworthy.

It is also the well - established case that natural scientists and people working at the edge of technological advances tend to be more religious than those in the humanities and social sciences.

Again, value - judgments are less directly involved in the details of work in the natural sciences than in many other fields; in the social sciences, for example, a scholar's work is more strongly affected by his views of the nature of man, his values and goals, and his perspective on society.

That idea is no more than working hypothesis in the field of natural science.

And science keeps finding that it is all natural processes at work.

As a biological anthropology major I've read Richard Dawkins (who I admire as an intellectual and work as a biologist) but the difference is I know see the natural world and life itself with a different lenses, not denying anything that science, reason and logic has to offer but only enhancing it with a different purpose.

These men had been convinced that belief in the field of religion must be formed by the same methods of inquiry that worked so well in the natural and social sciences.

But if it is in fifty or a hundred years, it will not be because of reports to Congress defending the humanities but because English and humanities professors move away from the research paradigm of the sciences and return to the sort of work natural to the discipline.

With the advancement of science and technology to explain how the world works, there is no value in «praying for healing» or blaming god for a natural disaster.

Partly it was simple lack of knowledge of how thunder and lightning work and a hundred other mechanisms of the natural world; partly it was response to the mystery of life itself, the human potential for malice and for love, a mystery which still calls for answers beyond those easily formulated by the human sciences.

These led me to his earlier works, which consistently vindicated Kass's self - description in his justly acclaimed Towards a More Natural Science: «The author of this book is by reading a moralist, by education a generalist, by training a physician and biochemist, by vocation a teacher» and student» of philosophical texts, and by choice a lover of serious conversations, who thinks best when sharing thoughts and speeches with another.»

In order to understand how Whitehead developed the concept of God, one may begin by comparing his earlier works such as The Principles of Natural Knowledge (1919) and The Concept of Nature (1920) with his later works such as Science and the Modern World (1925), Religion in the Making (1926) and Process and Reality (1929).

Mass Audubon's conservation and science teams are not only working to protect our natural resources for the present, they're also working to protect our natural resources as they respond to a changing climate in the future.

Citizen science depends on the research of dedicated individuals and teams working to gather data that can be compiled and analyzed to further our understanding of the natural world.

He loves to read, loves science, loves to find out how things work and why, but his natural leaning is towards anything creative.

To create the Natural Breastfeeding program, obstetrician Theresa Nesbitt («Dr. Theresa») and I drew from the work of many: the Swedish breast - crawl researchers, UK scientist Dr. Suzanne Colson, international brain - science experts, the Prague School, and Americans Dr. Christina Smillie and Dr. Brian Palmer.

The same standards that my friends, colleagues, and readers used in their work in the natural and social sciences.

The science behind the reasons sleep is a learned skill — and the reason that going with your child's natural sleep tendencies doesn't work for a lot of babies.

The Science Expo, at the American Museum of Natural History, was a showcase for the work of middle school students.

«Despite the natural concordance of our work with the principles and ideas embodied in Article 15, we didn't always put our work into a «right to science» context,» said Frick.

This panel will discuss the intersection in which natural history museums and science centers are arenas for shaping and guiding science diplomacy as it pertains to working with nations of conflict, tackling STEM education, and conserving endangered species.

UMES's own PSM program in quantitative fisheries science and natural resources economics has, she continued, already produced graduates who work in agencies devoted to preserving and enhancing the economy and ecology of the region whose livelihood depends heavily on the wellbeing of the Chesapeake Bay.

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Most participants work in the natural, medical, environmental, social, and computer sciences, and engineering, although scholars in the arts, humanities, and business were also surveyed.

In Iowa, extension program staff members work directly with agricultural retailers to teach them the latest in climate science, said Linda Prokopy, an associate professor of natural resource social science at Purdue University, who also studies farmers» views on climate change.

The remaining elected officials did not respond: from the House, Frank Lucas (Committee on Agriculture), Scott Garrett (Committee on the Budget), Fred Upton (Committee on Energy and Commerce), Edward J. Markey and Doc Hastings (both on the Committee on Natural Resources), Eddie Bernice Johnson (Committee on Science, Space and Technology), Bob Gibbs (Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment) and Nick Rahall (Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure); from the Senate, Pat Roberts and Debbie Stabenow (both on the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry), Patty Murray (Committee on the Budget), Jim DeMint (Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation), Lisa Murkowski (Committee on Energy and Natural Resources), James Inhofe and Barbara Boxer (both on the Committee on Environment and Public Works), Harry Reid (majority leader) and Lamar Alexander (Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development).

After Clayton's groundbreaking work at U.C. Davis, she returned to England in 2000 and rapidly rose to become a full professor at Cambridge University and director of natural sciences at the university's Clare College.

Rennie: Sure, Eugenie Scott from the National Center for Science and Natural Education, who has done wonderful work for years in trying to make sure that evolution, is taught appropriately in public schools and to try to discourage the teaching of creationism under any of its various guises as a bad scientific alternative to that.

Both Chinese citizens and non-Chinese are eligible, as long as they have a Ph.D. in natural sciences or engineering from an internationally recognized university, at least three years of research experience, and are willing to work full - time at a Chinese university or research institute.

Addressing these questions, experts say, will require a scientific work force that can bridge the natural and social sciences and translate research into real - world solutions and specific, local policy prescriptions.

Co-author Dr Gavin Foster, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, says: «Our work focused on the discovery of new relationships within the natural Earth system.

Matt Lewin was exposed to science as a small child by his father, an industrial chemist, and his aunt, who worked at New York's American Museum of Natural History, where she would often bring her dinosaur - obsessed nephew.

Working with USAID and later HarvestPlus and the National Science Foundation, Rocheford has used natural breeding techniques to pioneer high beta - carotenoid orange corn.

As problems become bigger, especially in the case of natural disasters, we have to work more and more with other scientists, other engineering groups, but also with the social sciences — psychologists, disaster managers, historians — and statisticians.

As an undergraduate, I got the opportunity to work for the chemistry dispensary in my home department, the department of natural sciences at University of Michigan, Dearborn.

So, starting on February 28th, I will be debuting as the host of a new series on the Weather Channel called Hacking the Planet, and this is a series in which, each week, the format is I take a look at some kind of big natural threat, things like hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes and the like, and I explore what we understand, the science of how these things work and where they came from and how they stop and then we figure out, well, how can we use this knowledge to our advantage.

For this research project, Strausfeld teamed up with Gengo Tanaka of the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology in Yokosuka, Japan; Xianguang Hou, director of the Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleobiology at Yunnan University in Kunming, China, and his colleague Xiaoya Ma who is presently working with Gregory Edgecombe in the paleontology department of the Natural History Museum, London.

Science Careers celebrates Darwin's birthday with two articles on scientists working in natural history museums — this one and a companion piece from Siri Carpenter, Rich Collections, Deep Expertise, which includes interviews with several scientists working at natural history museums.