The Empiricist Impulse: Doers and Thinkers in Sixteenth-Century Spain by Portuondo María M.

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PHILOSOPHY AND SPECIAL SCIENCES by Eugenijus Meškauskas

“…However this problem has rich prehistory related to the differences between conceptions of nature manifesting itself already in the ancient philosophy. In the empiricist tradition philosophy is considered as the methodological factor external with respect to natural science. …”
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Les paradigmes de recherche sur les difficultés dans le travail enseignant by Audrey Murillo, Javier Nuñez Moscoso

“…From a review of French, English and Spanish-speaking works, we highlight five types of paradigms: the psychological, sociological / anthropological, didactic paradigm, work and activity theories, and empiricist. We describe the theoretical and methodological characteristics of these paradigms, as well as the specificities of the studied objects.…”
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Blasphemers or Profaners? Shaping Deviance in the French and British Traditions by David Nash

“…In particular a comparison of approaches emanating from English and French traditions is especially illuminating. The empiricist Whig progressive model which emphasises the development of tolerance in the nineteenth century can be contrasted with models emanating from France which emphasise the creation of modern surveillance and the destruction of the subject and his individual response. …”
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Habits of Mind A Brand New Condillac by Jeremy Dunham

“…According to the received view, the French empiricist Étienne Bonnot de Condillac’s (1714–1780) answer to this was a firm “No”. …”
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The Pyramid and the Mosaic. Otto Neurath’s encyclopedism as a critical model by Andrea Alberto Dutto

“…Instead of searching for an ideal language, he asserted the possibility of a ‘universal empiricist slang’, including both everyday and scientific language. …”
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The Coronation of the Virgin: Alice Meynell’s Typological Critique of Modern Bodies by Ashley Faulkner

“…Drawing on Meynell’s unpublished letters at Boston College’s Burns Library, her little-known late works, and Merry England, one of the publications which Meynell co-edited with her husband, I show that her use and defense of religious rhetoric was part of a strategic response to the emerging empiricist narratives of human being. Censured in print by education experts, Meynell models for us a distinctive cultural criticism which engages religious thought and the humanities to show up the limits of empiricism.…”
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Transversal Movements between Gender and Environment: Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education by Kajsa Widegren

“…In the courses taught in other disciplines, gender was merely a perspective on the core concepts of, for example, developmental studies and relied more on empiricist notions of gender as a preconceived category.…”
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MOKSLO VERTYBINIO NEUTRALUMO PROBLEMA XX A. FILOSOFIJOJE (M. WEBERIS, ANALITINĖ MOKSLO FILOSOFIJA IR METAETIKA, KRITINĖ TEORIJA) by Zenonas Norkus

“…One of these difficulties is dependence of choice of significance level in statistical inference on practical considerations concerning consequences of the type I vs. type II error (this is a problem for logical empiricist philosophy of science). Another one is relevant for assessment of critical rationalism: is dichotomy of decisions and facts compatible with thesis of conventionality of "basic statements", i.e. their dependence on decisions? …”
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Providing a paradigmatic model of return on investment in the training of employees in the petrochemical industry by Mehdi Farahani, Seyyed Ali Akbar Ahmadi, Mohammad Tamimi

“…This research was based on an empiricist philosophy, fundamental from the goal point of view, and with a deductive-inductive approach with a mixed research method. …”
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Poor hypotheses and research waste in biology: learning from a theory crisis in psychology by Shinichi Nakagawa, David W. Armitage, Tom Froese, Yefeng Yang, Malgorzata Lagisz

“…However, biologists have long discussed communication failures between theoreticians and empiricists. We argue such failure is one aspect of a theory crisis because misapplied and misunderstood theories lead to poor hypotheses and research waste. …”
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