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Nature of Science or Nature of the Sciences?
Science Education, 2016AbstractThe present essay examines the emerging issue of domain‐general versus domain‐specific nature of science (NOS) understandings from a perspective that illuminates the value of domain‐specific philosophies of science for the growth and development of the NOS educational field.
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The naturalism of the sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2018The sciences are characterized by what is sometimes called a "methodological naturalism," which disregards talk of divine agency. In response to those who argue that this reflects a dogmatic materialism, a number of philosophers have offered a pragmatic defense.
Gregory W, Dawes, Tiddy, Smith
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Nature of Science Contextualized: Studying Nature of Science with Scientists
Science & Education, 2015Understanding nature of science (NOS) is widely considered an important educational objective and views of NOS are closely linked to science teaching and learning. Thus there is a lively discussion about what understanding NOS means and how it is reached.
Tala Suvi, Vesterinen Veli-Matti
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Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2021
One can hear "Data Science" defined as a synonym for machine learning or as a branch of Statistics. I shall argue that it is far more than that; it is the natural evolution of the technology of very large-scale data management to solve problems in scientific and commercial fields.
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One can hear "Data Science" defined as a synonym for machine learning or as a branch of Statistics. I shall argue that it is far more than that; it is the natural evolution of the technology of very large-scale data management to solve problems in scientific and commercial fields.
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THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN NATURE AND THE HUMAN NATURE OF SCIENCE
Sign Language Studies, 2005IN 1889, German biologist August Weissmann showed that mice whose tails are cut off do not produce short-tailed offspring. It was a step forward for science, but a step backward for civilization. Weissmann's discovery was good for science because, contrary to what many scientists had believed, acquired characteristics are not, of course, heritable ...
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Evolution and the Nature of Natural Science
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1966WHEN HEN I saw the title of this book, I had supposed that it would contain studies of rather than studies in the literature of the natural science. But there is no concern for literature as such. What it turns out to be is some sort of anthology. But it is very good.
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Sociology as a Natural Science
American Journal of Sociology, 1932Natural science is differentiated from other modes of knowledge by method, not by subject matter. The revolutionary concept that social phenomena are natural phenomena and therefore can be studied by natural-science methodology is being rapidly accepted.
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Computing is a natural science
Communications of the ACM, 2007Information processes and computation continue to be found abundantly in the deep structures of many fields. Computing is not---in fact, never was---a science only of the artificial.
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Natural Computing: A Natural and Timely Trend for Natural Sciences and Science of Computation
2007Natural computing refers to computation taking place in nature and to humandesigned computation inspired by nature. When complex phenomena going on in nature are viewed as computational processes, our understanding of these phenomena and of the essence of computation is enhanced.
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