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...Science is often distinguished from other domains of human culture by its progressive nature: in contrast to art, religion, philosophy, morality, and politics, there exist clear standards or normative criteria for identifying improvements and advances in science. However, the traditional cumulative view of scientific knowledge was effectively chal...
... my soul if you like. And if you don’t want to, don’t, damn you! That’s my philosophy. Ivan talked well here yesterday, though we were all drunk. Ivan... ...itary existence there. He was a good scholar who had gained distinction in philosophy in the uni- versity. Something made him take a fancy to Markel, ...
...tempt made to interweave life and speculation, or to connect politics with philosophy. The Republic is the centre around which the other Dialogues may... ...public is the centre around which the other Dialogues may be grouped; here philosophy reaches the highest point to which ancient thinkers ever attaine... ...to. The 3 greatest of all logical truths, and the one of which writers on philosophy are most apt to lose sight, the difference be tween words and t... ...e included an ideal history of Athens, as well as a political and physical philosophy. The fragment of the Critias has given birth to a world famous f... ...some elements of Plato remain still unde tected in Aristotle. In English philosophy too, many affini ties may be traced, not only in the works of t... ...reflected in them their own higher nature. He is the father of idealism in philosophy, in politics, in literature. And many of the latest conceptions ... ...here we end. The subject is then changed and the old quarrel of poetry and philosophy which had been more lightly treated in the earlier books of the ... ...ird division (3) consists of the fifth, sixth, and seventh books, in which philosophy rather than justice is the subject of inquiry, and the second St... ...tenth book (5) is the conclusion of the whole, in which the rela tions of philosophy to poetry are finally determined, and the happiness of the citi...
A semi-biographical review of the life and philosophy of Matt Blevins.
...ack of experimental evidence, this section is provided as a separate part! The first book of its kind, it brings the diverse fields of Science and Philosophy into face-to-face contact. It is a thrilling journey for all types of readers interested in science or Vedanta....
... groups 2.4 The explanation of dark matter 2.5 Red-shift 2.6 Possibilities in the far future 2.7 History and philosophical implications Part 2 Philosophy – Towards Convergence Introduction to core Vedantic concepts Verses from ancient texts and discussions Further reading References (Physics)...
...It is indeed a rare occurrence to encounter so grave a philosophy as occasioned by Climate Change, especially, within our Science; but, to be afforded an opportunity, so fortuitous, to enable overturning accepted theory is even rarer still. If one should allay, if only momentaril...
...Prelude: Into the Blue Yonder (an experiential reality check) ~ Weighing Anchor ~ Experiential Reality ~ Tsunami Warning! ~ Philosophy Dead? ~ Synopsis I: Exponential Virtualization (the price of human self-awareness) I.1: Retrospective I.2: Man’s Midas Touch ~ virtualization by symbolic communication I.3: Data Transmission Tsunami ~ m...
...d: Natural Selection IS the vital power itself. Modern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as ... ...ent view of the scientific endeavor competes with a more modest, semantic school of philosophy of science. Many theories - especially ones with bre... ...dvantage, to tackle questions that once were the exclusive preserve of religion or philosophy. The scientific method is ill-built to cope with such... ...ts it applies to, the term's universe of applicability). As the Oxford Companion to Philosophy puts it (p. 411): " A context of a form of words is ... ...t equivalent and do not share the same truth value). As the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy summarily puts it (p. 194): " Inscrutability (Quine ... ...erinus Boethius (480? - 524?), Roman philosopher and statesman, The Consolation of Philosophy " An implication of intelligent design may be that t... ...e evidential argument from evil, we get (quoting from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's article about The Problem of Evil): "(1) An actio... ...hus undermining (and upsetting) quite a few religious denominations and schools of philosophy. The Stoics were pantheists. They (and Spinoza, much... ...ent view of the scientific endeavor competes with a more modest, semantic school of philosophy of science. Many theories - especially ones with bre...
Philosophy
...This book is intended for instructors and students of philosophy and social sciences, and also for all those who are interested in problems of man and mankind....
Philosophy, Religion