Texts, articles and reviews with the label: 'Scientific method'.
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Argument of design and fifth way of St. Thomas: similarities and differences.
summaryThe review of the modern argument of design to demonstrate the existence of God sample great differences with the fifth way of St. Thomas. They start from the order of nature, but their idea of finality and causality is different and they arrive at different results.
Author: Alberto Barbés
Reasonable certainty in science and philosophy
summaryMathematics and experimental science are based on postulates that cannot be justified by themselves. Their acceptance implies the adoption of philosophical postulates. Some of these postulates, which lead to the possibility of a reasonable certainty in science, are shown.
Author: Fernando Sols
summaryNaturalism is nowadays put forward as the only interpretation of the natural sciences. Is it really reasonable to accept this view of science, and what if naturalism is nothing more than a theology, a pseudo-religion?
Author: Moisés Pérez Marcos
Open Reason. A personal proposal
summaryThe author's intellectual trajectory, theological and scientific knowledge (the latter in relation to quantum mechanics), the need for multidisciplinarity and the concept of open reason: openness to truth, both scientific and theological, are examined.
Author: Javier Sánchez Cañizares.
The problematic neutrality of the scientific method
summaryIt is generally accepted that the scientific method is neutral with respect to metaphysics and theology. But accepting this neutrality entails faulty metaphysical and theological presuppositions: the indifference of nature with respect to God and the merely extrinsic relation of God to nature.
Author: David Alcalde.
The Shroud of Turin: between science and faith
summaryThree important moments in the history of the Shroud of Turin are reviewed, from which lessons can be drawn that are valid for scientists, philosophers and theologians, and which serve to enrich the dialogue between science and faith in current debates.
Author: José Fernández Capo.
Science and religion: the realism of Michael Polanyi
summaryMichael Polanyi (1891-1976), a scholar of the foundations of science, contributes ideas such as the role in science and the search for truth of the personal knowledge , belief and tradition, which make it possible to establish an integrating space between science, Humanities and religion.
Author: Francisco Gallardo.
Can science offer an ultimate explanation of reality?
summaryNonlinear dynamics and the uncertainty principle show an indeterminate world. Gödel and Chaitin show that mathematical chance is not provable. It is concluded that finality, randomness and design in nature are outside the scientific method.
Author: Fernando Sols
C. S. Peirce: Science, Religion and the Abduction of God
summary: Belief in God in Peirce is not only a natural product of abduction or "rational instinct", but the scientific development and belief in God are interrelated: belief in God is capable of changing the believer's behaviour: the reality of God gives meaning to the whole scientific business .
Author: Jaime Nubiola
Is statistical demonstration scientific? 
summary: Scientific research, among many other things, is deductive and inductive. Deduction is used in all disciplines. Its demonstrations, irrefutable, usually end with a q.e.d. On the other hand, in the so-called experimental sciences, induction is increasingly essential. Modern statistics has come to give mathematical consistency...
Author: Jesús López Fidalgo
What is the relationship between faith and science today?
Author: José Manuel Giménez Amaya
Is design intelligent a scientific or a religious theory?
summary: The main theses of the Intelligent design movement, born in the context of the dispute between Darwinism and creationism, and especially the inference of design from scientific observations, are described, and the problems of method of this position are discussed.
Author: Santiago Collado
Is everything subject? Is materialism the only possible interpretation?
summary: Study of the problems posed by the concept of subject: initial insufficiency due to circularity in the definition, extension of its study to philosophy, description of the materialist and spiritualist monisms, and recognition of the duality of material and non-material facets of reality.
Author: Santiago Collado
Prof. Artigas' contributions to epistemology and philosophy of science
Author: Don Evandro Agazzi
Articulating science and theology: presuppositions and implications of science
summary: This article studies the presuppositions of science that allow a theoretical connection with theology: consistency of the natural world that allows its systematic study, the ordered nature of the world and the contingency of the natural world, which refers to causes superior to nature itself.
Author: Mariano Artigas
Chance and levels of observation in evolution
summary: The theory of evolution currently posits the origin of new forms of life as result of chance and natural selection. In science, each phenomenon requires an appropriate method of study, and there may be different levels of observation involving different methods of study. In evolution, admitting chance at one level of explanation does not imply that other levels of...
Author: Antonio Pardo
summary: Communication on the scientific vision and the human vision of reality, which, in contrast to the former, allows us to discover God.
Author: Héctor L. Mancini
Science, reason and faith: A challenge of our time
Author: José Manuel GIménez Amaya
summary: It is possible to achieve an integration of the scientific and the metaphysical perspective. They are different approaches. However, it is possible to integrate them, as long as their diversity is respected and the perspective required by each problem subject is adopted. This article examines the methodological gap, the border issues, the partial overlaps and how they should be...
Author: Mariano Artigas
Science and Transcendence: Intelligent Design
Author: Santiago Collado
Comments on the new faith of materialism
summary: 1. Materialism, a) Naive realism, b) Consumerism, c) Dialectical materialism, d) Problems of the scientific method, the creation of hypotheses, the scope of the method, e) Superstitions, natural selection, the emergence of life, artificial intelligence, additional comments, 2.
Author: Atilio González Hernández. Telecommunications engineer
Author: Penelope Maddy
From conventional hypothesis testing in science to the evolutionary hypothesis
summary: Understanding causality is central to public health and requires statistics, which uses hypothesis testing. In theory, chance could explain everything, but with statistics, chance is rejected as a cause when the probability is very high leave. In evolutionary biology this criterion is hardly applied.
Author: Miguel Ángel Martínez
From Thales to Newton: Science for smart people
summary: Review summarising the book: a review of milestones in the history of science, to see how the problems were originally posed and how the solutions that have made up later science were arrived at, with final reflections on the scientific method.
Author: Santiago Collado
summary: speech of the Pope to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on the occasion of the beginning of the 2010 plenary session, commenting on the partial nature of scientific progress and the need for philosophical reflection as an indispensable complement to science.
Author: Holy Father Benedict XVI
Dr Crick's brain. Searching for the soul with the scalpel
summary: Commentary on Francis Crick's book, published at the age of 77, on the brain and consciousness, in which he mixes interesting scientific perspectives with a cheap, anti-religious materialism, unbecoming of a Nobel Prize winner award . Almost all of Crick's book is a popularisation of current knowledge about the brain and, above all, of the vision of...
Author: Mariano Artigas
The challenge of interdisciplinarity: difficulties and achievements
summary: What interdisciplinarity is not, the motivations of interdisciplinarity, the conditions of interdisciplinarity, knowledge as synthesis, the methodology of interdisciplinarity and other achievements of interdisciplinary work.
Author: Evandro Agazzi
"The Splendour of Truth" for a Christian Scientist
summary: This paper analyses from a scientific perspective the consequences of the process caused by the separation between faith and reason and its relation to the different meanings of the word truth. It starts from the concepts enunciated by the Pope at Regensburg and attempts to describe the historical evolution from the ancient concept of "reason" to that of "scientific reason"....
Author: Héctor L. Mancini
Author: Daniel Turbón
E. Mach and P. Duhem: The Philosophical Significance of the History of Science
summary: Ernst Mach (1838-1916) and Pierre Duhem (1861-1916) can be considered as parallel figures. Both lived at the same time, died in the same year, were prominent physicists, conducted research into the history of science, and related this work to their ideas on the philosophy of science...
Author: Mariano Artigas
Human evolution: the latest discoveries
summary: Introduction. The human being: that great mystery. The first discoveries. Neanderthal Man. Upright man without speech. The hominids of Southern Africa. The second generation. Paranthropes and the first Homo. Lucy. The most famous hominid. The decade of the nineties. In search of the roots. Abel. The australopithecine of Chad...
Author: Carlos A. Marmelada
The ambiguity of "neuroethics".
summary: Lecture given at the conference Closing ceremony of the Master's Degree in Bioethics. Universidad Católica San Antonio (Murcia), 21 January 2011.
Author: Sergio Sánchez-Migallón
Evolution, between science, reason and faith
Author: Juan Luis Lorda
The intelligibility of the natural world
summary: Three images of nature, intelligibility and causality, scientific truth, science and realism, the systemic perspective, the processual perspective, the dynamism of nature, physics and philosophy, cosmological categories, nature and transcendence.
Author: Mariano Artigas
The invasion of pseudo-science
summary: The proliferation of pseudoscience is one of the most striking and worrying phenomena of today, the demarcation criterion, Popper a convinced skeptic, parapsychology and magic, UFOs and extraterrestrials, scientists and pseudoscience.
Author: Mariano Artigas
summary: Study of the connection between God's intelligent plan for the world and its unravelling by means of the scientific business .
Author: Mariano Artigas
The limits of scientific language
summary: From its systematic birth in the 17th century, modern science became a source of perplexities. Kepler and Galileo were convinced that nature is like a book written in mathematical language. But the consolidation of the new physics rightly led to doubts that it was possible to understand it adequately in this way...
Author: Mariano Artigas
Mariano Artigas (1938-2006) in memoriam
summary: Obituary article on Mariano Artigas covering his academic training, ordination and the beginning of his priestly work, his time as a teacher in Pamplona and his intellectual contribution.
Author: Santiago Collado González
Mechanics, science and principles. An interpretation from Polo
summary: Article on the Newtonian interpretation of the world and its insufficiency for a complete cosmovision, following philosophical approaches by Leonardo Polo.
Author: Santiago Collado González
summary: Article on the origin and contents of neuroethics: scientific meetings core topic and positions of Adina L. Roskies, Judy Illes, Martha Farah, Thomas Fuchs, Walter Glannon, Jonathan Moreno and Neil Levy.
Author: Sergio Sánchez-Migallón Granados and José Manuel Giménez Amaya
Nicolas Oresme, Grand Master of the high school of Navarre, and the origin of modern science
summary: The College of Navarre in its first hundred years, the foundation of the College of Navarre, the College of Navarre and the University of Paris, the political, ecclesiastical and intellectual environment, the beginnings: Jean de Jandun, the time of Oresme, a new era: d'Ailly, Gerson, Clamanges, overall assessment. Oresme and the physical school of Paris, science in the 14th century...
Author: Mariano Artigas
summary: The Bicep2 telescope discovered the first gravitational waves. Their presence would echo the inflationary process that occurred moments after the big bang, a theory it supports. The inflationary model and its compatibility with creation is briefly explained.
Author: Javier Sánchez Cañizares
summary: A work in which, after three technical chapters by Daniel Turbón, Mariano Artigas explains the issues in relation to faith and religion.
Author: Mariano Artigas and Daniel Turbón
summary: Desire to be understood, to guess or to abduct, the inferred nature of knowledge, inference and truth.
Author: Juan Pablo Serra
summary: Review of Penrose's work 'The Road to Reality', with reflections on the mathematical and philosophical vision it provides.
Author: Javier Sánchez Cañizares
summary: Description of the scientific method and the subject of truth it arrives at, which is compatible with a gnoseological realism and with the acceptance of an authentic scientific truth.
Author: Mariano Artigas
Rescher and Gadamer: two complementary views on the limits of science
summary: Analysis of Rescher's and Gadamer's views on the limits of science: the former studies the internal limits and the latter the external ones.
Author: Alfredo Marcos. University of Valladolid (Spain)
Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science
Author: Michael Ruse
Society, Science and Faith: A Physicist's Perspective
summary: To say that today there is a crisis of faith and that the scientific and technical development influences this crisis is nothing new. knowledge If, as the First Vatican Council affirms, "reason and faith are two sources of Truth, one revealed and the other derived from observation", we should not find opposition between them. However, in fact, the controversy does exist....
Author: Héctor L. Mancini
The Mind of the Universe
The Presuppositions and Implications of Science as a Bridge between Science and Religion
summary: The impact of secular humanism on our understanding of human affairs, and the desacralization of contemporary culture can be considered as two sides of the same coin. Apparently they are closely related to the progress of empirical science. I am going to consider these topics under the perspective of the impact of scientific progress on them....
Author: Mariano Artigas
The Mind of the Universe
Understanding Science and Religion
summary: The paper examines the work of "disenchantment" of the world by modern science and the need to "re-enchant" the world, within a context of rationality. The bridges to achieve this result lie in the self-organisation of the subject as a reflection of the divine action that imprints a teleology on reality...
Author: Mariano Artigas
Three levels of interaction between science and philosophy
summary: The epistemological level, the ontological level, the anthropological level.
Author: Mariano Artigas
Tradition and finding in Michael Polanyi's epistemology
summary: Book chapter summarising Michael Polanyi's view on the role of tradition in the progress of scientific theses.
Author: Francisco Gallardo
Is statistical demonstration scientific?
summary: Scientific research, among many other things, is deductive and inductive. Deduction is used in all disciplines. Its demonstrations, irrefutable, usually end with a q.e.d. On the other hand, in the so-called experimental sciences, induction is increasingly essential. Modern statistics has come to give mathematical consistency...
Author: Jesús López Fidalgo