General Knowledge: Science

General courses on Science

Science is a powerful tool for understanding the world and the universe around us. It has been used to explain phenomena and develop technology that has changed the course of human history. From advances in medicine to the invention of the internet, science has been instrumental in helping us understand and manipulate our environment. But what exactly is science?

• Definitions Science
• Science Fact Sheet
• Science Quotes
• Categories of science

News/policy course on Science :

News/Policy Courses

• Shale gas: advantages and dangers, the summary
  Why is there so much talk about shale gas? Praised by ...

Philosophy Course on Science

• Rabelais – “Science without conscience” (explanations)
  ” Science without conscience is the ruin of the soul ” ...
• What does “demonstrate” mean?
  The word demonstrate has a long history, and was already used ...
• Definitions of Science
  The notion of “science” in the feminine singular is, by its ...
• Aristotle – No scientific knowledge through perception
  In the Second Analytics (4th century BC), grouped in the the ...
• Desproges – Scientific rigor
  If you are interested in science, you will be interested in ...
• Is philosophy compatible with science?
  One of the recurrent questions of philosophy is its relation with ...
• Science Sheet
  This fact sheet will provide you with some insights into Science, ...
• The virtual image, progress of science? (IEP 2013)
  What about new technologies such as television? This ...
• Use of spider silk by man
  One of the greatest challenges of science is to provide solutions ...
• Shapes and mathematics in nature – Science IEP
  “How is it possible that mathematics, which is nevertheless a product ...

• Science – François Rabelais
• Scientific rigor – Pierre Desproges
• Is philosophy compatible with science?
• Science and technique philosophy
• The science of Auguste Comte : positivism
• Science according to Origen
• Science in God
• The virtual image, progress of science?
• The virtual, Gilles Deleuze
• Epistemology : video on scientific revolutions
• Silk, example of genetic transformations
• What does “demonstrate” mean ?
• The cause of the cause
• Where do the sciences come from according to Saint Augustine
• The science par excellence according to Aristotle
• Science does not concern the accident, but the always
• Finesse and geometry – Pascal
• Vanity of sciences – Blaise Pascal
• Science endangered by imagination – Pascal
• Karl Popper has changed the way we think about science
• 5 crucial theses of Karl Popper on science
• Change of paradigm
• Forms and mathematics in nature
• Is science limited to stating facts?
• Cicero, On Divination

Sociology Course on Science

• Tocqueville – Analysis of the link between democracy and the study of science
  Alexis de Tocqueville in the second volume of Democracy in America ...
• Science and sociology
  Is sociology a science? What are the problems of this presumed ...

Science Topics and Answer Key

• Rabelais – “Science without conscience” (explanations)
  ” Science without conscience is the ruin of the soul ” ...
• What does “demonstrate” mean?
  The word demonstrate has a long history, and was already used ...
• Definitions of Science
  The notion of “science” in the feminine singular is, by its ...
• Tocqueville – Analysis of the link between democracy and the study of science
  Alexis de Tocqueville in the second volume of Democracy in America ...
• Aristotle – No scientific knowledge through perception
  In the Second Analytics (4th century BC), grouped in the the ...
• Desproges – Scientific rigor
  If you are interested in science, you will be interested in ...
• Is philosophy compatible with science?
  One of the recurrent questions of philosophy is its relation with ...
• The method for the Sciences Po exams
  Some of the best methodology articles are gathered here. Our selection ...
• Science Sheet
  This fact sheet will provide you with some insights into Science, ...
• The virtual image, progress of science? (IEP 2013)
  What about new technologies such as television? This ...

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