What is "sciences"

Usage examples of "sciences".

Nowadays, most philosophers of physics, the most mature of the sciences, have distanced themselves from scientific realism, adopting views closer to those of Cardinal Bellarmine than of Galileo.

Research in modern biology and the brain sciences is conducted with the assumption, hardly ever questioned, that there are no nonphysical influences in organic evolution or in human affairs.

But while this dualistic construct of phenomena versus noumena has done little to hamper the physical sciences, it has contributed to the stifling of introspection as a means to exploring the mind.

Like Hacking, most contemporary philosophers of neuroscience, among the youngest of sciences, adopt scientific realism.

An imposing array of experts in different sciences were attached to the magazine, and every story was allegedly subjected to examination as for its scientific accuracy.

The extraterrestrial, who is master of sciences far beyond ours, makes a machine which alters the molecular vibrations of Mr.

Since it must needs be of great Impediment unto the Growth of Sciences, for Men still to Plod on upon beaten Principles, as to be afraid of entertaining any thing that may seem to contradict them.

This way of thinking is in evidence among contemporary intellectuals, even those in the cognitive sciences, which often strike at the heart of religious belief.

Despite the vast differences in methodologies and theories within the cognitive sciences over the past century, the principle of reductionism has run through all these disciplines, as if they were all conforming to a pre-established creed.

Prior to the nineteenth century, diverse sciences each enjoyed a large degree of independence.

Introspection is given only marginal treatment in modern psychology textbooks, and in both psychology and the brain sciences, theorizing about the nature of introspection is at a rudimentary stage in comparison with other types of cognition.

In both psychology and the brain sciences, theorizing about the nature of introspection remains at a primitive level in comparison with theorizing about other cognitive processes such as perception and memory.

Nowhere is this more evident in the physical sciences than in the field of quantum mechanics.

This process appears in the natural sciences when a researcher seeks mediation from a more experienced tutor in attempting to improve his or her skill as a scientist, but such second-person mediation generally disappears by the time the young scientist publishes an article in a scientific journal.

Furthermore, as Lyons acknowledges, within the brain sciences there is presently a general consensus that, while there is evidence for some sort of localization, there are no precise and different locations or even different sorts of brain tissue corresponding to different thoughts, sensations, or even different types of thoughts or sensations.