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13 de jun. de 2024 · This article provides a broad survey of the development of science as a way of studying and understanding the world, from the primitive stage of noting important regularities in nature to the epochal revolution in the notion of what constitutes reality that occurred in 20th-century physics.
- L. Pearce Williams
27 de jun. de 2024 · The former is the philosophy today called theoretical (including what are classically called ontology and “metaphysics”), the second one is the philosophy of nature. Both of them were and are parts of a single discipline, philosophia, the background of the one who loves knowledge and wants to devote himself to it 15.
Hace 4 días · Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions are the difference between science and non-science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the ultimate purpose and meaning of science as a human endeavour.
24 de jun. de 2024 · Authors: Robert Hanna. Provides a synoptic organicist approach to the philosophy of the formal-&-natural sciences and the philosophy of nature. Takes on board the most relevant subsequent philosophical and scientific developments up to the present day.
25 de jun. de 2024 · Metaphysics, branch of philosophy whose topics in antiquity and the Middle Ages were the first causes of things and the nature of being. Later, many other topics came to be included under the heading ‘metaphysics.’
13 de jun. de 2024 · Two centuries after Thales, most natural philosophers accepted a doctrine of four elements: earth (cold and dry), fire (hot and dry), water (cold and wet), and air (hot and wet). All bodies were made from these four. The presence of the elements only guaranteed the presence of their qualities in various proportions.
Hace 2 días · Modern science is typically divided into three major branches: the natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, and biology), which study the physical world; the social sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which study individuals and societies; and the formal sciences (e.g., logic, mathematics, and theoretical computer science ...
