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20 maj 2020 · What is the role of the imagination in scientific practice? Here I focus on the nature and role of invitations to imagine in certain scientific texts as represented by the example of Einstein’s Special Relativity paper from 1905.
1 mar 1978 · In general, Plato's position seems to have been that genuine science (episteme) is to be contrasted with proceeding by guesswork: if from any art you subtract the element of numbering, measuring and weighing, what would be left would be 'guesswork' (eikadzein) and rule of thumb-involving the ability to make lucky shots (stochastikes) (Philebus ...
Today, various animals are said to possess a survival instinct, migratory instinct, herding instinct, maternal instinct, or language instinct. But a closer look reveals that these and other “instincts” are not satisfactorily described as inborn, pre-programmed, hardwired, or genetically determined.
1 paź 2010 · Today, researchers increasingly recognize that moral judgments can be the result of both intuition and analysis, and that the two paths can lead to different results.
7 kwi 2017 · Evolutionary changes in epigenetic mechanisms may sculpt a learned behavior into an instinct by decreasing its dependence on external stimuli in favor of an internally regulated program of neural development (see the figure).
1 sty 2021 · This ethological trend transformed the classical, mostly metaphysical nativist stance into a theory of instincts, that is, of the behavioral reflexes of an evolved species-specific genotype. According to this tradition, genes play a central role in the explanation of inborn behaviors.
These four laws of scientific change together constitute a general theory of scientific change that we will use to help explain and understand episodes from the history of science, as well as certain philosophical topics such as scientific progress (chapter 5) and the so-called demarcation problem (chapter 6).
