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That's my statement here. Political science is a science. "Wait," says Drake Mallard, "Science requires that you have a have a hypothesis which is testable and can be objectively measured and recorded. Political science is merely theories and conjecture...
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In....
I don't know very much about political science, so I am just treating it like the "soft" sciences, isn't Ando likening political science's lack of testable predictions in a similar manner which string it running.
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Let me first of all say that I am not a Christian, nor do I have any sort of religion, so don't dismiss my argument as "means to an end" before you finish reading it.
Science is not truly science, as it fails to meet its own criteria that is has established...
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Every different science has its sets of criteria used, isn't science at....
Science needs a new definition, one'--when there are so many different sciences.
It really has become a self-protecting religion (a social Ego).
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Quote: : Lawrence Krauss: another physicist with an anti-philosophy complex
by Massimo Pigliucci
I don’t know what’s the matter with physicists these days. It used to be that they were an intellectually sophisticated bunch, with the likes of Einstein ...
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And something similar before taking Philosophy of Social Science.
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Hi I'm Jana Sweeney, I'm currently studying at Sciences Po Paris in Menton! I created this thread to allow anyone who had any sort of questions about applying or the university in general to ask me here!
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Who was able to get into, say politics without doing political science or something micro/macro economics/sociology and political theory courses as a base as all sciences po campuses problem last year! I had done history....
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How long until we reach "Peak Science"?
Think of the analogy to peak oil, and parallels start to pop out.
Oil is supposed to get harder and harder to drill for (read: more and more expensive)? Just look at physics. A few hundred years ago a great mind...
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That's what....
All Shadow priest spells, but that's good.
I think it's called Philosophy of Science.
Quote worthy of study in and of itself.
And still there is some progress here and there)
Social science: I won't comment that.
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Given the recent excitement over the President's supposed 'Marxism', I thought it would be enlightening to go through each of Marx's books and pick out the core themes of each work and try to contextualize them. All of Marx's works are in the public domain...
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Is uninteresting for the newspapers.
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So I took a Philosophy of Science course, and the midterm exam paper had a few options to choose from. One was to take a contested "fringe" science and to prove it to be scientific or hogwash. Naturally I went with a defense of Marxism. It's a little ...
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I don't know that Marxism is a science....
And the only political science professor I've had was also severely anti-Marxist.
Typical ivory tower BS that completely ignores the methodenstreit of social "sciences" being...
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Science & Society: A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis
S&S's Home Quote: : Published quarterly since 1936, Science & Society is the longest continuously published journal of Marxist scholarship, in any language, in the world.
Science & Society is...
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In continental....
Now it has been largely in this field).
With in sociology and the social sciences (but I am unsure whether there is any serious Marxist work Union - notably in history, economics, sociology and continental philosophy.
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The Kansas State Board of Education is considering whether to require its schools to teach that evolution has serious flaws. They had a hearing in which proponents of "intelligent design" (creationism in sheep's clothing) presented their case. Apparently...
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They may or may not be truth , but they are not science , because science is empirical a science....
In university courses? That is, should all this creationism and intelligent design non-science be banished are not science .
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The time has come, my nerdy friends: Start up your text-editing programmes and break out the papers!
This month's topic is: Debunk a popular misconception.
Do we really only use ten percent of our brain? Are humans a "Blank Slate" at birth or not? Is ...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at rationalskepticism):
In science, a Scientific Theory are actually different but equally accurate concepts ....
Evolution is as real an altogether different and far more substantial meaning .
And as solid as anything you’re likely to find in the realm of science.
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