'empirical scientist' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a scientist who uses empirical evidence (evidence based on observation or experience) to support their theories or findings. Example: As an empirical scientist, Dr. Smith conducted numerous experiments and studies to gather data and support her theory on climate change.
Scheler combined the interests of an empirical scientist with a philosophical effort that followed in the tradition of 19th-century attempts to relate human experiences to the concept of a reality (essence) that underlies human thoughts and activities.
An empirical scientist must engage in empirical observation of some sort in an order to confirm or disconfirm the theories with which her discipline is engaged.
It is because of this difference in object that he distinguishes (as he notes in his epistemology and his philosophy of nature, discussed below) among the activities of the empirical scientist, the mathematician, the philosopher, the theologian, and the mystic.
Though empirical scientists sometimes scoff at it, this third method is not to be despised.
But when Gutting suggests that I don't take such philosophers seriously "because they don't proceed like empirical scientists, testing their ideas through experiments," I must disagree.
Haidt doesn't take such philosophers seriously, I suspect, because they don't proceed like empirical scientists, testing their ideas through experiments.
Behind this ambitious collection of essays on art, creativity, sexuality and the mind is CP Snow's old question: why is there such a wide chasm between the world of literary intellectuals and that of empirical scientists?
Anecdotal discussions such as these can only be useful to empirical scientists.
Was not Hegel simply trying to pre-empt the work of empirical scientists by somehow attempting to anticipate the very contents of their discoveries from logical considerations alone?
His attachment was to the new Newtonian empirical scientists, and while he was never more than a dilettante scientist himself, his devotion to this form of natural inquiry made him in some respects the leading philosophical advocate and ideologist for the new empirico-scientific conception of philosophy that Newton initiated.
ECC has seven research projects in ecology under way, with participants from universities throughout the United States and, in the case of St. John's project, with collaborators in the U.K. His ECC project aims at breaking down not only geographical barriers but also philosophical and cultural barriers between lab-based empirical scientists and mathematical modelers.
