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Epistemology and Modern Physics

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/schlick.htm

connection with the sciences, whether it seeks in them a basis on which it attempts to build further, or whether they form for it merely the subject-matter of its own analyses, wh
Essay on the Epistemological foundations of modern physics by Moritz Schlick, founder of the Vienna Circle

Thomas Aquinas in English: A Bibliography

https://aquinas-in-english.neocities.org/

of Philosophy and Science. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963; reprint, Aristotelian Commentary Series. Notre Dame, Ind.: Dumb Ox Books , 1999. E-text of books 1–2 at isidore.
List of printed and on-line translations of Aquinas into English, arranged by type of work, with an explanation of abbreviations used in referring to his works and with suggestions

Critique of Objectivist Ethics

https://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/papers/rand5.htm

ethics was not an exact science. The implication seems to be that she thinks her theory, as set out here, is an exact science. This claim would not withstand a casual acquaintance

Women in Computing

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/acm-women-in-computing

and computer science undergraduates in the world here at MIT and a two-minute conversation with any of them illuminates the problem more than your 162-page issue. The problem is m

The Intellectual Yet Idiot

https://scribe.rip/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577

They can’t tell science from scientism — in fact in their image-oriented minds scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following

Extraterrestrial life, the Fermi paradox and the Hedonistic Imperative

https://www.hedweb.com/object32.htm

has a distinct air of science fiction. This may of course be the case. The timescales are certainly daunting even for a single galaxy of 400 billion stars some 100,000 light years

The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism

http://www.spreadhisword.org/jil/evolproo.htm

believe whatever "science says," become skeptical when they realize that the scientists actually do seem to think that variations in finch beaks or peppered moths, or th

Loïc Cerf - Curriculum

https://homepages.dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/en/curriculum.html

for earth and exact science. Computer science department of UFMG. 2014-2026 Member of the commission for the support of foreign candidates to post-graduate studies. Computer scien

Pluralism in the Western Thought

http://www.ghandchi.com/301-PluralismEng.htm

of civilization and sciences concurrent with the growth of human thought from common-sense pluralism to monism, and except for brief interludes, pluralism has always been defeated
Pluralism historically has been associated with democratic thinking

Pragmatic Ethics

https://www.hughlafollette.com/papers/pragmati.htm

the province of your science. You must look at or for some particular phenomenon. Yet that may lead you to overlook other significant phenomena. Similarly language empowers us, si
Explains how a pragmatic ethic is a viable alternative to standard ethical theories.

Ideal Standards, Units, and Measurements

https://zerocontradictions.net/misc/ideal-measurements-units-standards

denote sets Computer Science : camel case is used for variable and function names; constants are written in all caps Linguistics : capital letters are used for glossing, lowercase
If humanity had to start over and decide the best standards, units, and measurements for everything in an ideal world, these are what Zero Contradictions proposes.

Donald Cary Williams on the evils of inductive skepticism

https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/williams.html

it'. [A.N. Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (New York, 1925, p. 35] So prodigious a theoretical contretemps cannot remain a tempest in the professors' teapot. The news that


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