For me, Bas van Fraasen, who teaches philosophy of science at Princeton, is a stand out.
Ruse, a professor of the philosophy of science is an agnostic but is in the same camp.
His summary of the philosophy of science combined with his account of his personal experiences is useful because it reveals how science is really done.
Lysaght, who says that he thinks the essay is "a masterpiece, " says that he views it more as a work of philosophy than of science, as well.
The idea of becoming conscious of the subjectivity of our perceptions is an admittedly abstract one -- the stuff of philosophy and science fiction.
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He ventured deeply into questions of political science and philosophy.
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But just before that, evidence abounds of an early headstart in Asia of science and technology, philosophy and the arts.
Natural philosophy has always been a key part of science, providing a framework for hypotheses and conclusions, especially when experimentation bumps up against the walls of physics and technology.
The law of the conservation of energy, so significant in science and philosophy, was formulated four times independently in 1847, by Joule, Thomson, Colding and Helmholz.
Their commentary may have cultural force in the mainstream media, but it often lacks the sedimentary depth accrued by serious trench work in the history of ideas, science and technology, or philosophy.
Dozens of officers surrounded and cordoned off the building, known as the Stata Center, which houses computer science laboratories as well as the department of linguistics and philosophy, according to MIT's website.
The major principles of the pact are drawn from international law, science, philosophy, religion, recent United Nations summit meetings and an international dialogue on global ethics generated at the conference and elsewhere.
She also had a view of science that was unashamedly broad, taking in arts, literature and natural philosophy much in the mould of Erasmus Darwin at the end of the 18th century, whose tomes on botany and zoology were written in Wordsworthian verse.
They knew poetry, philosophy, astronomy and science inside out and were considered the bravest and most wise and respected members of Celtic society.
However if liberals actually did laugh off his criticism because it came replete with copious references to science fiction and video games they were being unduly light hearted about important matters of philosophy and statecraft.
In 1994, Wade and Bob Brier, a professor of philosophy and Egyptology at Long Island University, took a human body that had been willed to science and mummified it following the ancient procedures of mummification outlined in ancient Egyptian lore.
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With the new pope being himself a trained scientist -- Francis graduated as a chemical technician before moving on to study philosophy, psychology and theology -- the timing could be right for a new era of cooperation between the Vatican and science, building on the work of the STOQ Project -- Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest -- which was created by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
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