John A. Dupré (born 3 July 1952) is a British philosopher of science. He is the director of Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, and professor...
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page, Dupré described leaving home at age 17 to escape a broken family and abuse, but her aunt, Barbara Youmans of Seaside Heights, denied that Dupré had...
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Jackyl John Dupré (born in 1952), philosopher of science Jos Dupré (1928–2021), Belgian politician Jules Dupré (1812–1889), painter Louis Dupré(dancer)...
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Paul Feyerabend Thomas Kuhn Karl Popper Stanford School Nancy Cartwright John Dupré Peter Galison Ian Hacking Patrick Suppes Lwow-Warsaw Jan Łukasiewicz Alfred...
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Desmond John Dupré (19 December 1916, London – 16 August 1974, Tonbridge, Kent) was an English lutenist, guitarist, gambist and a prominent figure in the...
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Usually credited under the name John Leslie, he also worked under a variety of pseudonyms, including John Leslie Dupre, Frederick Watson, and Lenny Lovely...
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in different scientific fields. This group includes Nancy Cartwright, John Dupré, Peter Galison, Ian Hacking and Patrick Suppes. A notable position put...
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"Reductionism in Biology" in: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. John Dupré: The Disunity of Science—an interview at the Galilean Library covering...
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2017 ed.). Dupré, John (July 1983). "The disunity of science". Mind. 92 (367): 321–346. doi:10.1093/mind/XCII.367.321. JSTOR 2253810. Dupré, John (1993)....
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Wetting (redirect from Young–Dupré equation)
}\right)}}\right)^{\frac {1}{3}}} The Young–Dupré equation (Thomas Young 1805; Anthanase Dupré and Paul Dupré 1869) dictates that neither γSG nor γSL can...
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empiricists still made concessions to each other. For example, the empiricist John Locke admitted that some knowledge (e.g. knowledge of God's existence) could...
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operationalize, between intension and extension, is now problematized. John Dupré, in a number of papers and mainly in his paper "Natural Kinds and Biological...
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Chalmers Hasok Chang Patricia Churchland Paul Churchland Daniel Dennett John Dupré John Earman Bas van Fraassen Ronald Giere Peter Godfrey-Smith Rebecca Goldstein...
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or UK public library membership required) Dupré, pp. 13–14 Dupré, p. 18 Molino, Michael. "Galsworthy, John", The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature...
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behaviorism and interpretations of behaviorist research. Philosopher John Dupré argued that the book overstated the case for biological explanations and...
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"Stanford School" in philosophy of science, a group that also includes John Dupré, Nancy Cartwright and Peter Galison. Hacking himself identified as a Cambridge...
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John Rogers Searle (American English pronunciation: /sɜːrl/; born July 31, 1932) is an American philosopher widely noted for contributions to the philosophy...
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Paul Feyerabend Thomas Kuhn Karl Popper Stanford School Nancy Cartwright John Dupré Peter Galison Ian Hacking Patrick Suppes Lwow-Warsaw Jan Łukasiewicz Alfred...
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place, or thing that a speaker identifies when using a word. Vocabulary from John Searle's speech act theory can be used to define this relationship. According...
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called the Pittsburgh School, whose members include Robert Brandom, John McDowell, and John Haugeland. Also among the developments that resulted in the decline...
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which critics perceive science to act imperiously. Philosopher of science John Dupré described it (in his 2001 book Human Nature and the Limits of Science...
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language. The scholastics of the high medieval period, such as Ockham and John Duns Scotus, considered logic to be a scientia sermocinalis (science of language)...
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degree of doubt regarding claims that are elsewhere taken for granted. Greco, John (2 September 2009). "Introduction". The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism (1 ed...
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considered scandalous. Lord Amberley was a deist, and even asked the philosopher John Stuart Mill to act as Russell's secular godfather. Mill died the year after...
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in Rouen into a wealthy musical family, Marcel Dupré was a child prodigy. His father Aimable Albert Dupré was titular organist of Saint-Ouen Abbey from...
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in the Age of New Media. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1421424347. Fulton, Scott M. III (March 20, 2007). "John W. Backus (1924–2007)". BetaNews...
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(ISBN 978-0-231-14044-7), co-authored with Max Bennett, Peter Hacker, and John Searle Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? (Oxford University Press...
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completely changed its nature and possibilities with Gödel's achievement. — John von Neumann In 1930 Gödel attended the Second Conference on the Epistemology...
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John Henry McDowell FBA (born 7 March 1942) is a South African philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford, and now university professor...
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David Chalmers (redirect from David John Chalmers)
David John Chalmers (/ˈtʃɑːlmərz/) is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy...
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