Sentences with phrase «sciences as a subject»

They'll likely become confused by what's true and what isn't, they'll be disinterested in science as a subject, and our already declining test scores in math and science will decline further while we stand around bickering over whether our kids should learn the thing we can prove or the thing we can't prove but choose to believe in anyway.
I have myself experienced sport science as a subject and profession from three different viewpoints.
Instead, Lisa teaches science as a subject that is connected to everything.
Additionally, a BBC Learning and Discovery Research report found that 39 per cent of girls who used the BBC micro: bit said they will now choose ICT / computer science as a subject option in the future, compared to just 23 per cent before trying out the micro: bit.
Additionally, a research report for BBC Learning found that 39 percent of girls who used the BBC micro: bit said they will now choose ICT / computer science as a subject option in the future, compared to just 23 percent before trying out the micro: bit.
With Sheila Held: Rappaccini's Daughter, Lynden inaugurates a series of occasional exhibitions that will investigate the work of artists who have taken — in various combinations, either directly or obliquely — women, nature and science as their subject.
Unfortunately, the same is true of the scientific societies, and in a real sense science as a subject is deteriorating rapidly as the modern «leadership» utilise the status of the philosophically based successes of the past to sticky tape credibility over the incompetent and politically based pseudo-science and pseudo-truth and PR - led non-science of today.
Perhaps my biggest achievement here is to introduce the concept of activities - based learning, which has substantially increased students» interest in science as a subject.
When you take up computer sciences as a subject in college, there are two main areas that you can train in — software and hardware.

Not exact matches

As far as elementary school goes, there is perhaps no better platform for innovation than science fairs, which give kids an opportunity to explore a subject they love, and solve problems of their own desigAs far as elementary school goes, there is perhaps no better platform for innovation than science fairs, which give kids an opportunity to explore a subject they love, and solve problems of their own desigas elementary school goes, there is perhaps no better platform for innovation than science fairs, which give kids an opportunity to explore a subject they love, and solve problems of their own design.
If you have a great deal of knowledge in subjects such as math, science or computers, you could tutor for cash.
One way to ensure you have the requisite medical proof is to research scientific papers on the subject, such as those from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
According to the QS World University Rankings by Subject, KAIST is particularly strong in a number of STEM subjects, such as materials science, engineering and technology, chemistry, and engineering.
In 2011, a conversation at a monthly «ideas brunch» with Silicon Valley friends turned to the dearth of women in math - and - science careers and how to get girls interested in in science, technology, engineering and math (known as STEM) subjects.
It recently imposed a curriculum in schools in its Syrian stronghold, Raqqa, scrapping subjects such as philosophy and chemistry, and fine - tuning the sciences to fit with its ideology.
Long - term portfolio allocation science dictates only a small percentage of assets in cash, so as much as 90 percent to 95 percent of most portfolios are subject to huge short - term losses.
Science Even Mass (missa) as practiced by Catholics has baryonic matter that can be observed and measured but that part where transformation of the matter occurs is not subject to mans scientific capacity to record or measure.
On April 26, 2012, the results of a study which tested their subjects» pro-social sentiments were published in the Social Psychological and Personality Science journal in which non-religious people had higher scores showing that they were more inclined to show generosity in random acts of kindness, such as lending their po.sse.ssions and offering a seat on a crowded bus or train.
Thechief difficulty is with the idea of science as the study of that which is under our control and can be subjected to examination and experiment.
A suitable reformation of logic involving a rejection of the subject - predicate paradigm could, Hegel seems to have thought, overcome the problem of externally related aggregates, while at the same time retrieving logic from the subjectivity into which it had fallen, and restoring it to its rightful place as the formal science of being.
Process 26), or an «ultimate individual fact» which he says «must be describable as process» (Modes 120, Adventures 199, emphasis added), or the self that determines itself (Modes 131), or the «substantial activity of individualization» (Science 123), or when he also says «the subject of the feeling is causa sui» and any feeling is impossible to understand «without recourse to the whole subject» (Process 221, emphasis added).
This applies generally to the truth which concerns man as such and hence transcends simple statements of particular facts which are the subject of the empirical sciences.
In the Abbasid period Muslim culture became society - oriented, with emphasis on such subjects as the sciences and engineering and architecture; but no contradiction was felt between these fields and religion, for all scholars combined religious knowledge with mastery of other fields of learning.
I am an avid reader of the sciences and philosophy as well so I believe that with my educational and life's background I can speak intelligently on these subjects but certainly not exhaustively and stand ready to discuss evidence (s) for and against with anyone willing to dialog without rancor or name calling or nastiness.
since God made homosexuals, and all these heterosexuals keep producing gay kids and we have evidence of homosexuality occurring in another animals as well as neuroscience and social sciences since 1963 stating that being gay isn't a disease but a natural orientation and since the writers of the bible would have no clue that it could be an orientation (just as they could have no idea that the world isn't flat, not up on pillars, nor is it surrounded by water, nor was the earth created from a leviathan carcass) thus it is permissible and subject to the same statutes heterosexuals are.
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.
Our understanding of everything else, including Scripture, theology, science and so on is subject to change, as has been clearly demonstrated again and again.
Economics has been particularly successful in establishing its subject matter as separate and distinct from the subject matter of other social sciences.
Science also studies living organisms, but this is almost exclusively a study of organisms as objects and not as subjects.
In actual practice, the psychoanalyst does attribute to the «I» of his patient a greater transcendence over these psychic forces than his theories justify, just as the academic psychologist, consciously or unconsciously, attributes to his subjects an inwardness that his science ignores.
The great advantage of such an approach is that it constantly reminds students that ideas do not exist in a vacuum, that what can too easily be presented as immutable facts are subject to revision, that science quite as much as any other subject is liable to paradigm shifts.
The world as the Bible says will pass away and science agrees as everything is subject to the law of decay.
Thus philosophy was recognized, not as one academic discipline among others, distinguished by its subject matter, but as replacing theology as the queen of the sciences.
The circularity between method and subject matter is clear in the humanities as well as in the natural sciences.
Little is being done at Nanjing Seminary to teach such favorite American subjects as psychology or psychotherapy, but much is being done to expose students to sociology, social theory and social - science methodology.
This directs attention to the concrete subjects doing science or scholarship, as well as the life - worlds of everyday living and the social institutions within which those subjects do science and scholarship.
Yet, as Giddens remarks, they have intensified, in the social sciences, the subject / object dualisms which have dogged most areas of social analysis (CPST 96 - 130).
Whitehead gives as an example of an enduring object that which forms «the subject matter of the science of dynamics.»
However, scientific truth which keeps on changing can obviously not be taken either by faith (that's not what science is) nor as an absolute truth, since it is subject to change.
On the contrary, they are as clearly differentiated from science as we take them to be, precisely because they spring from an interest or concern that is more than merely empirical and because the assertions they typically make or imply are not subject to any strictly empirical mode of verification.
The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.
It is a hypothesis and as such subject to scrutiny (very much protected by some in the field of science).
As for determinism, naturalism's widespread acceptance in both the natural and social sciences implied that man, seen as a being completely subject to the chain of cause - and - effect that runs throughout nature, possesses no free wilAs for determinism, naturalism's widespread acceptance in both the natural and social sciences implied that man, seen as a being completely subject to the chain of cause - and - effect that runs throughout nature, possesses no free wilas a being completely subject to the chain of cause - and - effect that runs throughout nature, possesses no free will.
Science as it is usually understood is simply incapable of addressing the question of the possible purpose of nature since the material it deals with has already been abstracted out of the «qualitative» realm of value and placed in that of the merely quantifiable, subject only to mathematical calculation.
I can not but think that the most important step forward that has occurred in psychology since I have been a student of that science is the discovery, first made in 1886, that, in certain subjects at least, there is not only the consciousness of the ordinary field, with its usual centre and margin, but an addition thereto in the shape of a set of memories, thoughts, and feelings which are extra-marginal and outside of the primary consciousness altogether, but yet must be classed as conscious facts of some sort, able to reveal their presence by unmistakable signs.
[25] For an example as to how the British government recognised that the co-option of the landed class was indispensable for the smooth administration of their Empire, see the report on the Imperial Assemblage in Delhi on 1st January, 1877, to mark Queen Victoria's accession to the Imperial Title, «Kaiser - i - Hind,» where the Viceroy, Lord Lytton, told «the native subjects of the Empress of India,» that although administrative direction and «supreme supervision» would lie with the English, through whom «the arts, the sciences and the culture of the West... may freely flow to the East,» nevertheless there was a need for natives to play a role in the administration.
Finally, the credibility of science itself has been shown — once again, and as if we needed a reminder — to be subject to such ordinary human failings as ego defense, the willingness to bend the truth rather than admit error, and the temptation to disparage and insult one's opponents.
The point I want to make is that science itself is beginning to see the limitations of the substantialist prejudice, the reduction of everything to «mere matter» The new physics and to some extent the new biology recognizes the entities of creation as subjects and not simply Objects pushed and pulled like billiard balls (Birch 1988b).
For example, Martin Heidegger argues that the whole modern view of the person as an active subject engaged in the process of knowing leads to the «nihilism» of Nietzsche, to the idea of knowing as the pure exercise of the will to power which has its fullest expression in contemporary science and technology (see, e.g., QT): In one sense my response can only be that I believe knowing is most truly understood as an active process, and that I think that the idea of a purely receptive knowing is a myth, albeit perhaps an appealing one.
It was especially a matter of paying attention to the historical process — climaxing in industrialization, with its reserve armies of the poor — as a process subject to science and disciplined thinking.
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