Sentences with phrase «philosophy than science»

Thats mere skepticism more akin to philosophy than science.

It is more philosophy than science (not a bad thing), so I personally don't follow it very well.

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Science, philosophy and history have not produced any scrap of evidence to indicate that death is anything other than the termination of all function.

science and philosophy have answered more of my questions than religion ever could.

Bertalanffy and Laszlo are unfamiliar because they represent a relatively new school of philosophy which takes its insights from the theoretical perspectives of contemporary science and technology rather than from the mainstream of professional philosophy.

Evidence points to theories and they're reputable and so I trust those more than a religious person using the bible as the only source of proof for history, science, philosophy, ect...

There was and is a need for a philosophy of science which, as Edward Holloway writes, was more «existential in emphasis» than essential, whilst being truly realist concerning formal universality (cf. Perspectives in Philosophy, Vol III, Noumenon and Phenomenon: Rethinking the Greeks in the Age of Science, Faith - Keywphilosophy of science which, as Edward Holloway writes, was more «existential in emphasis» than essential, whilst being truly realist concerning formal universality (cf. Perspectives in Philosophy, Vol III, Noumenon and Phenomenon: Rethinking the Greeks in the Age of Science, Faith - Keyway science which, as Edward Holloway writes, was more «existential in emphasis» than essential, whilst being truly realist concerning formal universality (cf. Perspectives in Philosophy, Vol III, Noumenon and Phenomenon: Rethinking the Greeks in the Age of Science, Faith - KeywPhilosophy, Vol III, Noumenon and Phenomenon: Rethinking the Greeks in the Age of Science, Faith - Keyway Science, Faith - Keyway Trust).

Philosophy, rather than science, is the final battleground in the evolution debate, at least insofar as that debate becomes a struggle between naturalism and supernaturalism to have the final say on man's status.

(Curiously for more than a century science made use of its married name and gave itself out to the world as «experimental philosophy»).

Somewhat broader than reductionism, and hence more alluring to many scientists, is the philosophy of naturalism, one variation of which holds: «Only that with which science deals is real.»

Traditions of every kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective memory of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism is to reach to the heart of the matter.

But as E. A. Burtt noted over half a century ago in his classic book The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, the thinker who claims to eschew philosophy in favor of science is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for studyScience, the thinker who claims to eschew philosophy in favor of science is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for studyscience is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for studying it.

For more than a thousand years after Islam came to China there was no translation of the Qur» an or the Hadith, nor were there books which touched on Islam's philosophy, history, science, and literature.

Neither excluding a priori with positivists anything more than the material and efficient causes, nor making philosophy, as the «science of common experience,» superior to science, as Schönborn would have it, is a valid description of the world.

Science, rather than living, became philosophy's subject, and epistemology its center.»

I know the history of philosophy far better than I do current science, except some small parts of the latter having to do with sensation and animal behavior.

Such cosmologies are almost always «vitalistic» in the sense of requiring auxiliary and somewhat ad hoc hypotheses to account for the apparent violation of the law of entropy in the impetus toward greater complexity manifested in the evolutionary process.6 Evolutionary cosmologies thus perpetuate a much older tradition of Romantic Naturphilosophie far more than providing a fully contemporary philosophy of science or some sort of «scientifically - verified» philosophy.7

Morgan had earlier complained (EEV) about Whitehead's treatment of mind in CN as wholly distinct from nature, and objected to Whitehead's earlier claim that the study of their relations constitutes metaphysics rather than philosophy of science.

Those inside it have been more often concerned to connect his views with theology than with the philosophy of science.

In essentials like religion, ethics, philosophy; in history, literature, art; in the concepts of all science, except perhaps mathematics, the American boy of 1854 stood nearer the year 1 than to the year 1900.2

As one concerned with the philosophy of science rather than philosophy in general, I must take the latter view, recognizing that there is a great deal that science does not and probably never will know.

Now I think that in making this distinction Whitehead makes a good and original initial point; because it is the fact that philosophers, by instinct, always think heterogeneously about nature, whereas scientists, equally by instinct, don't, which, more than any one thing, makes the philosophy of science so unreal a subject for actual research scientists.

The language of faith has more in common with poetry than with philosophy or a science.

When the astronomical revolution of the sixteenth century — in which the Italian philosophers of the Renaissance played a far more important role than historians of science admit — removed the universal cosmic clock, there were two alternative ways open to physics and philosophy of nature: either to retain the relational theory of time and to hold with Bruno (Bruno 1879, p. 144) that «there are as many times as there are the stars» (tot tempora quot astra), since there is no body possessing a privileged rotation motion, and the only body which allegedly had it — the sphere of the fixed stars — has been swept away; or to save the unity and homogeneity of time by separating it from any particular motion — and this is what Newton did, anticipated in this respect by Isaac Barrow and, in particular, Gassendi.

Thus, religion is always saying more than science or philosophy about man and his world, even though it is not privy to special information.

Philosophy, after all, needs precision of statement, more even than mathematics and natural science do.

How far such an attempt can succeed is of course another question, but in the last resort it is no more relevant than the insight that conclusive knowledge is impossible in any science or philosophy.

The marriage of form and content at the abovementioned colleges, which neither specialize nor departmentalize nor ignore mathematics and science any more than literature and philosophy, is a promising alternative to the research university.

Under the influence of scientism, the Enlightenment's exaltation of reason, modern philosophy and the suspicions cast by social science many intelligent people today suspect that religious symbols are no more than psychic or social «projections.»

No man has insisted on this more vigorously than Baron von Hügel, who with all his deep faith in the fullness of our Lord's embodiment of God, was yet ever ready to maintain that in other religious traditions, and likewise in science, art, philosophy, ethics, as well as in the simple humdrum experiences of daily life, God in some way and to some degree has been found and known.

For this reason, the great shock to Anglo - American natural theology was Darwinian science rather than critical philosophy.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of thescience and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of thescience, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of thescience can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of theScience and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

Steiner wrote more than 50 books and gave over 6,000 lectures on such diverse subjects as science, philosophy, religion, art, agriculture, medicine, and education.

History and philosophy are humanities rather than sciences, and the study of politics often fits a lot better into those categories.

Dr Catharine Abell, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Manchester Dr Arif Ahmed, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cambridge David Archard, Professor of Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast Helen Beebee, Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester Simon Blackburn, former Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, UNC - Chapel Hill Margaret A. Boden, Research Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex Dr Stephen Burwood, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Hull Dr Peter Cave, Lecturer in Philosophy, Open University Andrew Chitty, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sussex Michael Clark, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham Antony Duff, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Stirling John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Exeter Dr Nicholas Everitt, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of East Anglia Simon Glendinning, Professor of European Philosophy, LSE C. Grayling, philosopher and Master of the New College of the Humanities Dr Peter King, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oxford Dr Brendan Larvor, Reader in Philosophy and Head of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire Dr Stephen Law, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Heythrop College, University of London Ardon Lyon, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, City University London H. Mellor, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge Peter Millican, Gilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford Richard Norman, Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Kent Eric Olson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield David Papineau, Professor of Philosophy, King's College London Derek Parfit, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford Duncan Pritchard, Professor and Chair in Epistemology, University of Edinburgh Janet Radcliffe Richards, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Oxford Jonathan Rée, philosopher and author Theodore Scaltsas, Professor and Chair of Ancient Philosophy, University of Edinburgh Peter Simons, Professor of Philosophy, Chair of Moral Philosophy and Head of the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin Tom Sorell, Professor of Politics and Philosophy, University of Warwick Dr Tanja Staehler, Reader in Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex Thomas Uebel, Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester Dr Nigel Warburton, philosopher and author Keith Ward, Regius Professor Emeritus of Divinity, University of Oxford John White, Emeritus Professor of the Philosophy of Education, Institute of Education, University of London Stephen Wilkinson, Professor of Bioethics, Lancaster University RE professionals (other than teachers):

And with McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, sparking an unprecedented level of interest in the beliefs and philosophies of a vice presidential candidate, some more populist questions of science — creationism in the classroom, for example — have taken on a more direct resonance with voters than usual.

The debate about including the history and philosophy of science in science lessons remains unresolved in most countries, even in France which is now more of a leader in the interactive science movement than in philosophy.

Wittgenstein's philosophy, a technique more than a teaching, was almost directly attributable to the appropriation by science of the great cosmological questions that had traditionally been the province of philosophy.

And you point out in the book that if that line were being written today we would say «science,» rather than «philosophy,» philosophy being short for natural philosophy.

The council concluded that the issues raised are of a «philosophy - of - science kind rather than of a research - ethical kind.»

The institute's ethics council came to the conclusion «that the issues raised are of a «philosophy - of - science kind rather than of a research - ethical kind,»» Stokstad wrote.

Rather than advocating a particular dietary theory or nutritional philosophy, our faculty uses a science - based approach, considering the body of evidence from the most current and robust research available.

I try and broaden my knowledge of philosophy in areas other than philosophy of science / psychiatry.

Despite being a mixed bag, reaching high but occasionally faltering, Flatliners emerges better to take in as an overall experience with an emphasis on psychological explorations than as a realistic portrayal of science, technology, or even fundamental philosophy.

If you saw the trailer and are expecting a pure action movie, you'll be disappointed as the movie is more science fiction and philosophy rather than action or thriller.

In many ways, these articles resemble more an application of science to investing rather than an application of the philosophy of mindfulness, but as I also mention in Article 2, those two perspectives share much in common.

She has multiple degrees, including a Masters of Science, Masters of Philosophy, and a Ph.D. in social psychology from none other than Yale University.

If its section on cats is any indication, The ABC Guide is the manifestation of Fenwick's philosophy: more style than substance, more sales than science.

I try and broaden my knowledge of philosophy in areas other than philosophy of science / psychiatry.

I try and broaden my knowledge of philosophy in areas other than philosophy of science / psychiatry.