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Hace 1 día · David Hume (/ h juː m /; born David Home; 7 May 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist who was best known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical skepticism and metaphysical naturalism. [1] Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the ...
Hace 1 día · Conant's experience with the Manhattan Project convinced him that the public needed a better understanding of science, and he moved to revitalize the history and philosophy of science program at Harvard. He took the lead personally by teaching a new undergraduate course, Natural Science 4, "On Understanding Science".
Hace 1 día · Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world. [1] [2] Modern science is typically divided into two or three major branches: [3] the natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, and biology), which study the physical world; and the behavioural sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which ...
Hace 1 día · Various fields of inquiry study the mind, including psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and cognitive science. They differ from each other in the aspects of mind they investigate and the methods they employ in the process. [134] The study of the mind poses various problems since it is difficult to directly examine, manipulate, and measure it.
Hace 2 horas · —Max Weber in "The 'Objectivity' of Knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy", 1904. In terms of methodology, Weber was primarily concerned with the question of objectivity and subjectivity, distinguishing social action from social behavior and noting that social action must be understood through the subjective relationships between individuals. According to him, the study of social ...
Hace 1 día · Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Porträt von Christoph Bernhard Francke, um 1700; Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig Leibniz-Denkmal, 2009 anlässlich 600 Jahre Alma Mater lipsiensis in den Neuen Campus der Universität Leipzig umgesetzt. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (* 21. Juni jul. / 1. Juli 1646 greg. in Leipzig, Kurfürstentum Sachsen; † 14.
Hace 1 día · Politics (from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká) 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as ...
