Sentence examples for scientific philosopher from inspiring English sources

Who would you prefer, Wilde asked — the truth-telling scientific philosopher or the delight-giving liar?

The Greek scientific philosopher Empedocles listed fire as one of the four elements of matter.

Karl Popper, the scientific philosopher, gave a definitive answer to the question: "Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?" The answer is neither: they co-evolved.

New men had been introduced, some of whom possessed great ability and had a special interest in the "experimental philosophy" so eloquently heralded by the scientific philosopher Sir Francis Bacon.

Neurath was a social scientist, scientific philosopher and maverick leader of the Vienna Circle who championed 'the scientific attitude' and the Unity of Science movement.

"Further research may yield no more great revelations or revolutions," he writes, "but only incremental, diminishing returns". In pursuing his thesis, Mr. Horgan, a senior writer for Scientific American, interviews dozens of scientists and scientific philosophers, many of them the celebrated big thinkers and wild speculators -- and best-selling authors -- of our day.

The prize is open to anyone who studies the origin and nature of the universe, including "scientific philosophers" and perhaps even religious thinkers.

Maila Walter observes (1990, 192 193): "Within the community of scientists and scientific philosophers, Bridgman had become the lone spokesman for a radical existential subjectivism", more akin to Rheinhold Niebuhr's existentialist theology than to any commonly recognized philosophy of science.

Instead of gathering scientific evidence, philosophers have relied almost exclusively on their own linguistic and substantive intuitions and on the assumption that they already possess a good understanding of ordinary moral thought and talk.[37] This makes moral language ripe for treatment by experimental moral philosophers and their colleagues in linguistics and psychology.

I have written about this in a paper, "How Science Textbooks Treat Scientific Method: A Philosopher's Perspective," an empirical analysis of what 70 science textbooks have to say about scientific method.

Warren S. McCulloch (1898 1969) adopted many identities in his scientific life among them philosopher, poet, neurologist, neurophysiologist, neuropsychiatrist, collaborator, theorist, cybernetician, mentor, engineer.