In effect, Schaffner is arguing that the biomedical sciences employ a causal, rather than a teleological, concept of function.
If different sciences employ different methods and the study of soul is bifurcated so that it belongs to no one science, there will indeed be a genuine difficulty about how best to proceed in any inquiry concerning it.
The results of the analysis are described in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in a paper titled: "Elite male faculty in the life sciences employ fewer women".
The scanning electron microscope (SEM), as one of the most commonly used instruments in biology and material sciences, employs electrons instead of light to determine the surface properties of specimens.
Successful learners in the sciences employ active, metacognitive learning strategies and engage in learning communities (Donovan and Branford, 2005; Schraw et al., 2006).
Our report reviews numerous examples of junk science employed to justify the PHTs' war on working-class cultural habits.
Once an arcane science employed chiefly by wartime code makers, cryptography has emerged as a key tool for ensuring security and privacy in the information age.
Modern science employed in the cause of art world detective work is not exactly new; it was pioneered by scholars like Edward Forbes at Harvard beginning as early as the 1920s.
The idea is to see whether such smells can nevertheless change the way that people behave towards others.Dr Li's experiment, the results of which have just been published in Psychological Science, employed 31 volunteers.
In this paper, we examine two related questions about these initiatives: how does the institutional design of certification initiatives affect the way science is used in the development of certification standards and in whose interest is science employed?
In each case, Burge argues, the science employs intentional description rather than formal syntactic description.
