"scientific reflection" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to a form of thought or meditation that is based on an analysis of scientific or empirical evidence. For example, one might use scientific reflection to ponder the impact of climate change on global food production.
Examining the complex reasoning processes of historical science, Currie also considers philosophical and scientific reflection on the relationship between past and present, the nature of evidence, contingency, and scientific progress.
At the predicative level, scientific reflection further transforms nonessential types (e.g., that whales are fish) into essential ones (whales are mammals), and philosophy seeks eidetic universals.
Jevons also takes distance from Comte's positivistic philosophy, by arguing — like Spencer — that scientific reflection on higher notions of creation must necessarily end up in contradictions.
Outsider faith in global warming has to be grounded on trust in higher authority, disconnected from any critical scientific reflection at all.
Experiments, observations and computer simulations were grounded in scientific reflection about what should be explained in a rational manner, i.e., they largely followed the underlying scientific hypotheses.
Aukes referred to scientific reflection as "the critical appraisal of literature and own practice", which rises above the level of an individual case.
While his thoughts on the unconscious are framed as scientific reflections, they also creep toward theology: he's describing, after all, an ancient, moral agent interested in our wellbeing and given to revealing its intentions through images.
In such cases there is typically a tough dilemma between cooperation and non-cooperation or competition among agents, subdivided in a great range of possible fuzzy and at times undefined actions and conflicts, urging robust scientific reflections.
She was also one of the first women to be admitted as a member of the Royal Geographical Society, a distinction she earned because her publications included scientific reflections on glaciation and other phenomena.
More popularly, his most famous and enduring contribution may be for coining the phrase 'survival of the fittest.' He derived this phrase from philosophical reflection, not scientific observation, six years before Darwin published The Origin of Species [ 17].
Likewise Schlick rejected efforts by Ernst Cassirer (see his 1921, developing themes from his 1910) to make do with a merely relative a priori in helping along scientific self-reflection.
