The new science dealt with experimental philosophy. ... In Margaret Cavendish work "Observations upon Experimental Philosophy" she! challenges that a microscope or telescope is beneficial in studying objects. ... Cavendish was not a member of the Royal Society but some feel that Hooke's work is what influenced her to write "Observations upon Experimental Philosophy". Although they held opposing views they were both influenced by the new science to come up with theories or ways to study objects in order to increase knowledge....

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After his father passed away, Socrates inherited a large sum of money and used his inheritance to further his interest in philosophy. ... He applied his new method to many areas of study, including justice and the human nature of "the good.... His philosophies and other teachings in the philosophical field of study have paved the way for a world that questions and reasons, rather than simply accepting....

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One field of natural science, Physiology, dates back to 420 BC and is the study of function in living systems. ... The word itself directly translates to the "study of the soul" and caters directly towards humans. ... The study of human thought itself, of life, of meaning, of logic, and of existence. This of course is the study of Philosophy, made popular by Ancient Greek scholars and Enlightenment Era thinkers alike. ... It is then of the utmost importance that we use these two guiding philosophies to discover our one true place, and not to impatiently jam ourselves into the first free space...

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Strenghts and Weaknesses of Immanuel Kant's Concept of Nature A philosophical reflection on a disturbed relation with nature in the light of the ecological crisis Summary This study seeks to identify the frameworks of philosophical-theological co-operation between intuitions, ideas, beliefs and convictions within Western history, which prepared the ground for what is now known as the ecological crisis. ... Concern about living creatures now and in the future as well as doubts about the efficiency of the contemporary, large-scale application of scientific rationality as the excl...

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During this period philosophers sought to apply the methods of science to the study of human beings. ... Kant and his philosophy was influenced by both Christianity and science and in seeing the most fundamental problems of philosophy in how to combine the two. ... One fundamental objective of his philosophy was to explain how scientific knowledge is possible. ...

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From a young age, Golding gave up his dream of writing to please his parents by studying natural sciences. ... Swaying from the desires of his father, he begins his study of English Literature and Philosophy. ... Throughout his studies at Salisbury, Golding wrote four books, yet, never had any of his works published. ...

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Understanding of these accomplishments could only be reached by looking back and studying the works of antiquity. ... More people were therefore introduced to these disciplines which provided a broader base of learned individuals who contributed many important philosophies and ideas, having an impact on modern day science. ...

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FRANCIS BACON "Of Studies" (1625) Francis Bacon was a philosopher and a politician who came from a noble family, and would also become nephew by marriage to William Cecil, 1st Minister of Queen Elizabeth then. ... This essay ("Of Studies", 1625) is the remake of the former version, which had been written by him in 1597. ... Bacon proposes, in the form of an exposition, various things that are supposed to help us within our careers, as he keeps on using examples and comparisons on how different types of men would act before different problems, always related to studies. ... It is cle...

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Comte looked at human progress and decided that there are three stages to the evolutionary growth of knowledge; "Each of our leading conceptions, each branch of our knowledge, passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological or fictitious: the Metaphysical or abstract: and the Scientific or positive...In the final, the positive state the mind...applies itself to the study of their laws - that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance." (Comte 1830 The Philosophy' of Sociology' in Thompson 1995 p. 39-40) Comte argued that the human...

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However one cannot study the sciences separately because it would create confusion. ... According to Descartes, reductionism is "the study of the world as an assemblage of physical parts that can be broken apart and analyzed separately- (31). ... However these men did not have the power to understand or prove their philosophies. ...

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Scholars in many countries found it increasingly difficult to bridge the gulf between natural and supernatural, to reconcile natural law and divine providence, and to balance moral philosophy and spiritual virtue. ... Around this time Spinoza was expanding a philosophy deeply marked by natural science, which was incompatible with a literal belief in the Bible. ... He wrote on philosophy, science, music, and art, and wrote novels, essays, and dramatic pieces Rousseau's most important work is The Social Contract that describes the relationship of man with society. ... There are Romanticis...

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One way that people found to confirm their belief in a God was philosophy. ... Thomas Aquinas used the science of philosophy to prove God's existence. ... This is why some religions, particularly Islam and Judaism (article) believe that studying nature is a form of worshiping God. ...

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One way that people found to confirm their belief in a God was philosophy. ... Thomas Aquinas used the science of philosophy to prove God's existence. ... This is why some religions, particularly Islam and Judaism (article) believe that studying nature is a form of worshiping God. ...

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Epistemology, along with many other areas in philosophy, was heavily influenced by the rise of modern science in the late middle ages. ... Humans cannot remove emotion from their studies; biases will always be present, whether the participant realizes them or not. ...

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" (Pg. 33) A philosophy of history embedded in human development and the human mind began to manifest in this century through the works of Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot and Condorcet. ... During the scientific revolution, where the separation from religion and the study of humanity began and new developments in physics and astronomy emerged, the author notes how Darwin's revolution opened scientific exploration further into the areas of geology and biology. ... Darwin, starting as a geologist, studying the transformations in the Earth, connected these changes in the natural physical wor...

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THE MARCH OF RELIGION TO THIRD MILLENNIUM: - Swami Ranganathanada wrote, "A scientific study of religion reveals two dimensions to every religion, especially to every one of the highly developed world religions, namely, religion as a socio-political expression, and religion as a path to the experience of God, or any value equivalent to." ... In fact every branch of every science is an integral part of Vedic study. ... SIMILARITIES BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE:- On reflecting upon and studying the interrelationship of Science and Religion one finds that religion is a system of knowl...

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Modern science is the practice of skepticism. Skepticism is defined as acritical attitude which systematically questions the notion that absolute knowledge and certainty are possible...in particular fields? (Skeptic's Dictionary), meaning that modern science is the understanding that current scientificknowledge? is never infallible and that methods and truths must constantly evolve. Someone who experiments and constantly questions norms is a modern scientist. ...

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"All their numerous concepts of electricity had something in common-they were partially derived from one or another version of the mechanico-corpuscular philosophy that guided all scientific research of the day. ... "One recent research, which received support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was the only large-scale study to date of the extent and consequences of binge drinking at a representative sample of American colleges and universities. ...

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During the next couple hundred years, many members of academia(a school of philosophy), using science to back them up, came up with new ways of dealing with the unanswerable questions. ... Nowadays people believe that if a scientific view is false, then by continuing study and research the truth may be discovered. one may conclude that if no one presented new ideas, then intelligent thought would have no place in a society like that. ...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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The overall philosophy of the Research Division was that it should not try to duplicate in any way the work of the development labs of IBM which were collectively ten times the size of the Research division. ...

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