1. Consilience
Aristotle's theories and works included different fields, from logic, philosophy, and ethics to physics, biology, psychology, politics, and rhetoric. ... Where as physics is the attempt to discover the laws that govern fundamental concrete objects, metaphysics is the attempt to discover the laws that systematize the fundamental abstract objects presupposed by physical science, such as natural numbers, real numbers, functions, sets and properties, physically possible objects and events, to name just a few. ... He concluded the heavens obeyed different laws of physics than earth, and thin...
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. ...
When 17, Einstein entered the polytechnic institute in Zurich, Switzerland where he studied mathematics and physics. ... In 1900, when he graduated he asked to be appointed as an assistant in the physics department but was refused. ... He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921. ...
For many centuries, there was very little scientific advancement due to a restraint the Catholic Church had over Europe during the Middle Ages, but this all changed during The Scientific Revolution. During the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church had created a system of beliefs based on the teachings o...
Galileo was also dubbed ""the father of modern physics -- indeed of modern science altogether."" (His Place in Science, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/science.html) for his outstanding work on physics and his many other discoveries. ...
His main idea was that "Nature is all there is and that everything that can be known is known only by sense experience and everything that can be understood must be explained by physics."" ... The reason the world works is by physics and science, not because that is just the way it is, as previously thought. ...
In examining the nature of our society one cannot define its ways as purely white or pitifully black. Our environment metaphorically resembles in our Earth's daily functions through the two complete opposites of day and night. Nature simply suggests to us that indeed our world and our people know no...
The word Renaissance literally means "Rebirth" or "Revival". It was a series of events during 15th and 16th century by which Europe passed from Medieval to Modern civilization. The Renaissance means reawakening of human mind, there was a new spirit of inquiry, of criticism and a passion of scientifi...
Man, powered by his imagination and inquisitive character, has wondered he mechanisms of Nature since time infinite. This quest for the truth, the ways in which his surrounding works, has led to many a scientific discoveries and innovations. Since the art of making fire and creating handcrafted tool...
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. This crisis confronts us with a human self-understanding in relation to nature particular to our time, which has become life threatening to the existence of large sections of ma...
