Sentences with phrase «sciences as the discipline»

The development of social science as a discipline was shaped by this ethos.

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Marketing may be as much art as science, but it's still a complex and nuanced discipline that takes a great deal of experience to develop some level of understanding or expertise.

A panel of industry, government, science and communty members will today release a two - year marine science implementation strategy, aiming to make the state a global hub in the discipline and to encourage collaboration between industries such as offshore energy and fisheries.

There's been relatively few promising robotics companies until now, he said, «but people are becoming more commercially disciplined — they're taking it seriously now as a business rather than as a science project.»

Harvey Mudd describes its core curriculum as «an academic boot camp in the STEM disciplines — math, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, and engineering — as well as classes in writing and critical inquiry» that it says «gives students a broad scientific foundation and the skills to think and to solve problems across disciplines.»

Isaacson describes that thematic as «How the ability to make connections across disciplines - arts and sciences, humanities and technology - is a key to innovation, imagination, and genius.»

The «J - Curve» is applicable across a range of disciplines, from economics and private equity to political science, as a means of correlating the level of a country's stability and openness.

As Canada's leading innovation centre, MaRS brings together leaders across a range of disciplines — in science, business and beyond — to help boost the success of emerging ventures and to stimulate a broader culture of innovation.

Perhaps the major difference is that, whereas the dominant traditions see this critique as freeing theology to function as an independent discipline with little attention to the sciences, the process tradition sees this as an opportunity to reconstruct both theology and the sciences so as to bring them into a new synthesis.

They have wanted to separate their discipline from the humanities, including history, and to establish it as a science modeled on the physical sciences.

The term suggests a self - conscious preoccupation with the discipline of one «science» or with one organization of reality as opposed to others.

It would not be too farfetched or inaccurate to say that Darwinism in its deeper and persistent effects, as these became manifest in science and industry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and, through them, in other cultural disciplines and activities, contributed to, if in fact it did not create, a new ethos in Western society, dedicated to the task of dealing with the immediacies of existence in their practical aspect.

And most of them want practical theology to continue its close relation with the social sciences, but to do this in such a way as not to become overidentified with these secular disciplines.

Cahill is basically loyal to the New Testament witness, but he often relies on the discipline (it is not a science) of history, notably a particular school of interpretation, to shape his account of events whose inner and transcendent source confers what he himself describes as «a meaning beyond the chaotic surface of events.»

Perhaps the pressure of the guiding interest of theological inquiry will so shape theological engagement in history, philosophy, social sciences, etc., as to make the theological disciplines actual — that is, institutionalized in their own right.

Theology is thus the discipline that allows the secular sciences to be grasped as a single whole.

Increasingly the goals of religious education are being formulated as a result of the dialogue between the behavioral sciences and the biblical - theological disciplines.

This vocational emphasis affects not only the manifestly practical fields of study, such as the technical and professional disciplines, but even the «pure» liberal arts and sciences, which have commonly been represented as the studies appropriate for the nurture of the free man — studies whose justification and worth lie solely in themselves and not in any extrinsic purposes.

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.

Economics is a mature academic discipline that is viewed as embodying the norms of the university as well as any, better than any outside the «hard sciences.»

Indeed, most cultures in human history have generated no such marvel as the modern scientific movement, and even in our own culture, scientifically oriented as it is supposed to be, most people accept the benefits of technology and use the vocabulary of science but do not in fact choose to abide by the disciplines that alone make scientific productivity possible.

Modern scientific disciplines such as biology, psychology and medical science have started to study the effects of empathy on the human mind and body, on our health and relationships.

Such developments within academic disciplines are highly significant in a society in which the social sciences are viewed as instruments for the clarification, support and advancement of the government's philosophy and policies.

Just as sciences, technologies and scholarly disciplines arise out of and return to the life - worlds of everyday living and dying, so the logical and theoretical methods of argumentative discourse arise out of and return to participatory «fusions of horizon» in the «mutual agreements» of historical narrative praxis (BOR 144ff, TW 113ff).

His legacy forms the groundwork for many contemporary disciplines including psychology, history, political science, natural science and epistemology, as well as all of Roman Catholic theology.

This is a task that can not be undertaken by the social sciences alone, insofar as the contribution of disciplines such as metaphysics and theology is needed if man's transcendent dignity is to be properly understood.

He upholds equally the role of reason in other areas, such as metaphysics and ethics, and suggests that use of intelligence in science develops self - discipline and understanding of rational procedures in general.

Orderly, disciplined, critical inquiry of this sort is the Wissenschaft (often misleadingly translated into English as «science») that makes a research university genuinely a place of research.

It is a crippling reduction of revelation to place its content side by side with the propositions arrived at by way of problem - solving disciplines such as science and ethics.

The resources of the scientific community, including the social and behavioral disciplines as well as the natural sciences, need to be mobilized on an emergency basis to invent creative tactics to lessen the threats of war, pollution, and population.

It becomes most prominent in what Stephen Toulmin calls the «limit - questions» that arise in connection with such disciplines as science and ethics.

The contemporary mental health thrust in the churches, while having the advantage of new insights from the sciences of man and new helping techniques from the psychotherapeutic disciplines, is essentially the same concern for the healing and growth of persons as was found in the ministry of Jesus and throughout the church's history.

In due course mature social sciences will emerge as perhaps our most powerful link between the natural sciences and the humane disciplines.

Practitioners of religious studies who flooded sessions of the American Academy of Religion now often employed their own technical language, which served to legitimate the discipline's status as a science.

The «integrative interpretation» (as it has been styled) found in the «life sciences» (biology and its related disciplines) is now coupled with an interrelational view in almost every area of research.

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.

As he stated in his Sociology of Religion (1944), he was convinced of the need to develop a closer rapport between Religionswissenschaft and other disciplines, especially with the social and human sciences.

Theology was the queen of the sciences, and these latter gradually began to emerge as individual disciplines.

But today in our Third World contexts, for obvious reasons, theological enterprise needs to be nurtured by other disciplines such as social sciences, cultural anthropology, study of religions, political sciences, economy, etc..

Inasmuch as congregations are themselves social spaces with social forms, theological schooling focused through questions about them must attend critically to the scripture whose use creates the social space; and it must attend to the disciplines of the human sciences that provide understanding of the social forms that make congregations moral and political realities in their own right.

To be sure, he flatly refuses to grant to theology any self - designated role as traffic cop or official umpire of the claims of other disciplines: «Theology is one branch of knowledge,» he says, «and secular sciences are other branches.

We do not want to mix up science and religion indiscriminately as disciplines, but we do urgently need to show how they interrelate within an overarching vision of God's creative wisdom and purpose.

Although the dismissal of other disciplines is lamentable, it is right and good that science is taken as true — because it works.

Nor is it possible to say whether the foundation of the science of later centuries, based as it has been on the conviction that the universe is orderly, is from the Christian belief in the creation and governance of the world by God and from the discipline given the European mind by the debates in theology and the associated philosophy.

Through the corporate efforts of various modern scientific disciplines such as philosophy, ethnology, prehistory and history, archeology, psychology, sociology, and philosophy, the methods of the science of religion have become increasingly broadened and refined.

Two factors above all have contributed to implant and to foster this hesitancy: on the one hand, the very structure of the discipline which serves as a sort of introduction or preparation, to the science of religions (one knows that the majority of historians of religions are former philologists, archeologists, historians, orientalists, or ethnologists); on the other hand, the inhibition created by the lamentable failure of the vast theoretical improvisations of the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth (mythology considered a «disease of language,» astral and naturist mythologies, pan-Babylonism, animism and pre-animism, etc.).

It is readily apparent that the term «history of religions» has come to be regarded as a synonym for the «general science of religions,» and as such the nature of the discipline must be discussed in the total context of Religionswissenschaft.

If this «religion without revelation,» as Huxley calls it, can be said to have dogmas, the most important are its faith in the power of science to free Man from all the limitations that beset him, and the power of education to imbue him with high ideals, pure motivations, and self - discipline.

Second, those not as familiar with social science disciplines may want to begin by consulting chapter 4, the second section, «The Classic Tradition of Sociology.»

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.