Data Quote by Ernest Sosa

It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically informed. This…

— Hilary Kornblith

The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that we can…

— Hilary Kornblith

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

— Hans Reichenbach

“Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often) seek data…

— Daniel Kahneman

Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and other philosophical…

— Ernest Sosa

There is no need for the scientist to go into whether an observation was made, nor into the who, what, when, or where. The…

— Ernest Sosa

“Philosophy, like science, is only a collection of hypotheses, introduced for the usefulness of the ensemble, or for economy of thought.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because…

— Charles D. Broad

Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do…

— P.D. Ouspensky

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical…

— Asa Gray

“The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree…

— David C. Lindberg