Scientific method

The Enlightenment period was disastrous for the Church, as skepticism rose in the scientific community; the ecclesiastics struggled to explain the inconsistencies in the doctrines of Christianity and its many diverging theories. Under the fire of the Enlightenment, the Devil lost all credibility and almost disappeared as progress were made in multiple fields of science; to cope with the rising skepticism, Christianity had to adapt and change its outdated traditions which ultimately was more…

promoting intellectual exchange and the scientific method. The philosophes attempted to examine and either prove or disprove ideas, both new and old, challenging a few older patterns of Western thinking through the use of scientific reasoning and logic. But on a larger scale, the new thought process served a very similar purpose: to justify often-biased “truths” and ideas to the public through trust in a superior authority, in this case the scientific method. The Enlightenment may have…

Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental process, it describes, explains, and predicts behavior. The scientific function of psychology or psychologists method is similar to a lab chemist or scientist. Researchers prefer facts, to produce better results: by this the scientific method is utilized. The first approach taken in scientific method is a question asked, followed by forming a hypothesis, the hypothesis is then tested, a conclusion is drawn and the final step is a written…

and Socrates both offer various methods of arriving at conclusions within their philosophies and studies, each articulating specific information to their followers as they advocate through either science or philosophy. Within the Republic, Socrates offers his stance on justice and its placement within a city run by philosophers through reasoning. However, within the Sidereal Messenger, Galileo offers his account of information through the scientific method, a method that uses facts to support…

of the standard treatment or a novel (new) treatment. According to Hellman, clinical equipoise could be the only possible way to ethically justify the scientific method of human experimentation. This is because clinical equipoise can randomly distribute each subject to either the standard treatment or the novel treatment, mirroring the scientific process of grouping each…

“Scientific research is increasingly recognized as a vital catalyst and important index for national development. In many countries, it is scientific research, rather than rich natural resources that have a direct impact on economy and development”. (Samir Al-Adawi, 2015) One must not take for granted that when an article or journal is published, the statistical methods that have been used are correct. “Unscrupulous medical research not only halts the progress of medical knowledge, but also…

Evolution of the Scientific Method Francisco Ayala illustrates the inconsistency between Charles Darwin’s proclaimed experimental procedures disclosed to the public and the actual methodology that was carried out. The development of the scientific method allowed researchers to record empirical observations in a controlled setting in order to understand a scientific phenomenon. In Darwin’s time, majority of the researchers utilized the dominant inductive method which was influenced by John…

Vannevar Bush stated that scientific research is absolutely essential to national security, that war requires the most advanced scientific techniques. Bush pushed for colleges, universities, and research institutes to conserve the knowledge from the past and to teach that knowledge to students of the future. These institutes should be strengthened by use of public funds in order to better aid in the development of new scientific knowledge. He realized that the potential of underprivileged men…

In Greek terms, Philo means to love and Sophos means knowledge; Philosophy is the study about loving knowledge. When people think of philosophy, people only think of the idea each person has a personal philosophy such as beliefs in his or her own rights. Philosophy is not a narrow subject, but a broad subject that allows more than just a personal Philosophy that every person knows and has. Philosophy has 3, and to some philosophers, 4 main branches: Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Logic.…

(ref) This is through methods of observations and case studies. However, scholars have argued that certain aspects of psychoanalysis are not scientific. For instance, empirical evidence from research carried out by _________ shows that psychoanalysis is not a science. According to P ( ), historical empirical evidence conducted by…