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Vor 5 Tagen · The field of science aims to be objective, repeatable and justified in its choices and methods. These principles are what distinguish accepted scientific findings from pseudo-science. Yet the ...
Vor 5 Tagen · On the origin of academic traditions — and some alternatives for debate. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) — The field of science aims to be objective, repeatable and justified in its choices and methods. These principles are what distinguish accepted scientific findings from pseudo-science. Yet the experience of learning and working in the field of ...
Vor 5 Tagen · In the Penn Global Seminar, Scientific Nationalism in Japan, John Kehayias, a lecturer in critical writing in the Marks Family Writing Center, led a group of 16 first-year students this spring on a trip to Japan—from Osaka to Kyoto, Kyoto to Tokyo—to experience not just a cross-cultural exchange, but the ways in which Japan has embraced its ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Philosophy of science focuses on metaphysical, epistemic and semantic aspects of scientific practice, and overlaps with metaphysics, ontology, logic, and epistemology, for example, when it explores the relationship between science and the concept of truth.
Vor 2 Tagen · For Aristotle, "all science (dianoia) is either practical, poetical or theoretical" (Metaphysics 1025b25). His practical science includes ethics and politics; his poetical science means the study of fine arts including poetry; his theoretical science covers physics, mathematics and metaphysics.
Vor 3 Tagen · The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century. The scientific method involves careful observation coupled with rigorous scepticism, because cognitive assumptions can distort the interpretation of the observation.
Vor 4 Tagen · Epistemology, the philosophical study of the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge. The term is derived from the Greek episteme (“knowledge”) and logos (“reason”). Along with metaphysics, logic, and ethics, it is one of the four main branches of philosophy.
