Sentence examples for scientific rationality from inspiring English sources

Philosophers of science in this period also thought that they had a clear view of scientific rationality: to be rational is to accept and reject hypotheses according to the rules of method, or perhaps to distribute degrees of confirmation in accordance with Bayesian standards.

In the parlance of the history and philosophy of science, a methodology for scientific rationality is a theory of rationality: it tells us what is rational and what is not in specific cases.

This approach bears little connection to historicism in the strong sense, where historical episodes are taken to be somehow constitutive of rationality as, for example, when scientific rationality is simply defined as that which maximizes the number of rational episodes in the history of science.

In Brecht's hands, a play celebrating scientific rationality changed into a play calling for social responsibility.

Old-time scientific rationality seems to be teetering on the edge of obsolescence.

Like many slightly loose appeals to a general sense of scientific rationality, it gets used in a multitude of ways.

I am convinced that the scientific rationality of Abouheif and Jackson outweighs the droll scepticism of Babuna.

Modernisation theory, inspired by Max Weber, famously claimed that as societies evolve, religious belief is replaced by scientific rationality.

They are how we react, and how we reason about it – even when scientific rationality is an impossible dream or a corrupted memory.

Across great swaths of nature... the major puzzles of existence have been pulled to pieces in the hands... of all-conquering and -consuming scientific rationality".

At the core of this emotive debate between scientific rationality and cultural identity is the question of who owns the past.