Search results for "Unity of Science" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 1926) founded the first American department of sociology at the University ... Albion Woodbury Small was born in Buckfield, Maine, the son of Reverend ...7 KB (1,052 words) - 17:49, 19 December 2022
- 1908) was a British philosopher and leader of the Neo-Hegelian school in ... Caird published two sets of Gifford lectures, The Evolution of Religion ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- Positivism is a family of philosophical views characterized by a highly ... #The belief that science involves the idea of the unity of science ...11 KB (1,561 words) - 05:45, 30 November 2022
- is commonly regarded as the fundamental unit of counting and measurement. For ... known as the "identity element" of multiplication (or multiplicative ...16 KB (2,188 words) - 06:29, 13 June 2023
- 2017) was Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, Emeritus ... Kaplan was one of the foremost scholars in international relations ...9 KB (1,221 words) - 16:45, 12 April 2024
- and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Award of the Peace Prize to Lord Boyd ... After three years of teaching, he returned to the university to study ...11 KB (1,795 words) - 02:42, 4 November 2022
- who contributed to the development of ethnography and anthropology ... Germany, into a prosperous bourgeois family of merchants. He studied at different ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 06:01, 15 June 2023
- is commonly understood to be an integration of two or more pre-existing elements ... Synthesis as a resolution of conflicts is often achieved by conscious ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 01:58, 27 February 2023
- was a German philosopher born of Jewish parentage in Belarus ... Although there are some disputes about the year of Maimon’s birth ...7 KB (1,116 words) - 01:01, 4 February 2023
- omnipotence only to God. In the philosophies of Western monotheistic religions ... There are a variety of views of omnipotence, and the five most representative ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- Nicholas of Cusa (born in 1401 in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany – died ... Nicholas was instrumental in developing the concept of “panentheism ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- Today Mach is probably best known for his positivistic account of ... Mach had an enormous range of scientific interests. According to Peter ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- strongly influenced by the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and the hermeneutic ... Merleau-Ponty taught philosophy at a number of different high schools throughout ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 00:45, 9 November 2022
- played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry ... Solovyov did not think of himself as a philosopher, but as a prophet ...15 KB (2,232 words) - 20:48, 3 May 2023
- ran counter to the prevailing rationalism of his day. Shestov rejected any ... He emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of universal ... who had many practical ideas in the field of education. His numerous publications ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- essay written by John Jay. It was the second of The Federalist Papers, a series ... Federalist No. 2 established the premise of nationhood that would ...20 KB (2,888 words) - 01:53, 26 March 2024
- statements (everyone agreed on the existence of analytic a priori and synthetic ... Logical positivism held that philosophy should aspire to the same ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- was an Austrian sociologist and philosopher of science and one of the founders ... Neurath was the driving force behind the Unity of Science movement ...12 KB (1,753 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. Eccles was the recipient of many honors, including a knighthood ... in Natural Theology, a sweeping view of the scientific understanding ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 17:05, 5 April 2024
- anthropologist who developed the theory of "structural-functionalism ... he soon became interested in the work of W. H. R. Rivers, Alfred North ...15 KB (2,175 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- used to identify the essential components of the given phenomenon or experience ... reduction. These techniques are parts of phenomenological researches ...9 KB (1,238 words) - 00:03, 13 February 2024
- Unification Thought is the philosophy of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon ... First, it expresses a passion for the ideal of unity and harmony. Analysis ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 01:38, 3 May 2023
- and statesman, the second president of India (1962-1967). Radhakrishnan was one of the foremost scholars of comparative religion ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- was instrumental in bringing the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga to ... He brought a more spiritual, as opposed to dogmatic, understanding ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- Jewish-American sociologist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology ... As a member of the Jewish immigrant minority, Wirth understood first ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to ... positivists attempted to achieve the unity of science ("unified science ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927) was the founder ... Indian family (he was a great-grandson of Tipu Sultan, the famous eighteenth ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 19:28, 6 September 2022
- philosopher and historian. He is seen as one of the most important proponents ... Collège de France. Gilson taught history of medieval philosophy from 1921 ...8 KB (1,224 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- Damascius (c. 460 C.E. – c. 538 C.E.) was the last head of the Neoplatonic ... Damascius' position as head of the Academy when it was closed ...10 KB (1,407 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Britannica and his book Religion of the Semites (1889), which is ... history. His desire was to open the study of religion to a broader discourse ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 10:46, 12 May 2023
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President ... For anyone to become head of their state is a significant achievement ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- and logician during the second half of the nineteenth century. He ... Lotze combined the monads of Gottfried Leibniz's spheres of individual ...24 KB (3,658 words) - 16:57, 22 December 2022
- cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. Some of ... Bateson is most closely associated with the concept of the double ...23 KB (3,325 words) - 14:02, 31 January 2023
- His systematized and refined the cosmologies of Plotinus and Iamblichus, and ... Proclus’ greatest concern was the elevation of the human soul to ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 23:05, 30 November 2022
- Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was the pioneer ... Mary Baker Eddy overcame years of ill health and great personal struggle ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- view that everything in existence is of an all-encompassing immanent ... have been discussed as long ago as the time of the Ancient Greek philosophers ...28 KB (4,312 words) - 06:37, 18 November 2022
- thereof, such as the Holy Spirit. (The study of the Holy Spirit in Christian ... quot; in the Latin Vulgate instead of anima (soul), which was rendered ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism ... members are widely considered the founders of modern literary criticism. ...22 KB (3,136 words) - 18:18, 22 December 2022
- metaphysics that found an all-inclusive unity in the Absolute Spirit (non ... His philosophy can be best understood within the contexts of German ...29 KB (4,323 words) - 17:06, 17 December 2022
- the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5. Meeting ... was meant as a manifestation of the unity of science movement […] Original ...34 KB (4,936 words) - 20:14, 3 May 2023
- Italian psychiatrist, the founder of the psychological movement ... guide each person to understand the meaning of human life in all its contexts ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- traits, and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head (by reading ... these do not correspond to the level of complexity that Gall described ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 05:06, 24 November 2022
- and an influential figure on matters of political and social policy ... Bosanquet’s major works include A History of Aesthetic (1892), The ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- who served as the last General-Secretary of the International Missionary ... church order, that bishops, symbolizing unity of faith and practice, can ...30 KB (4,685 words) - 22:01, 25 October 2022
- twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. to attempt a systematic integration of Aristotelianism into Jewish ...20 KB (3,202 words) - 22:53, 8 April 2021
- She was a notable first female in a variety of additional positions, including ... Sauvé's main objective was to see to the fulfillment of national ...18 KB (2,686 words) - 17:42, 2 April 2024
- the Western world by the Latinized version of his name, Alkindus) was known ... and admitted revelation as a superior source of knowledge in some matters of ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- who gained his position in the history of Western philosophy by opening ... Fichte must be credited with reintroducing the idea of a direct contact ...16 KB (2,518 words) - 14:42, 1 August 2022
- 1924 - February 4, 2020) was the President of Kenya from 1978 until 2002 ... he claimed, a distinctive African tradition of leadership. He claimed to be ...24 KB (3,582 words) - 06:24, 15 January 2023
