Sentences with phrase «philosophers of science provide»

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«This globetrotting novel follows the life of an awkward female «natural philosopher» born in 1800, providing a window into the development of science as a profession in the 19th century and dealing with the slings, arrows, and random events that mark all our lives.

Back in the early seventeenth century Francis Bacon, the first modern philosopher of science, recognised that the developmental nature of modern scientific methodology provided a truer vision of how human knowing arrives at formality than the scholastic theory of abstraction.

Such attitudes were compounded with the philosophers of the eighteenth century writing their own «whiggish» version of scientific history in which the rejection of the Church provided the counterpoint to the rise of science.