Author Archives: Nicolae Sfetcu

Scientism is a nineteenth century vision of the world in which experimental science takes precedence over older forms of reference – religious revelation, superstitions, tradition, and customs – to interpret the world. In the words of Ernest Renan (1823-1892) scientism … Read More

Google has recently launched a new search engine, using a large system of public government databases, public sources, digital libraries, and personal websites, primarily aimed to help journalists and researchers in their work. The new search engine, with the name … Read More

(Newton’s reflector, the first reflecting telescope) The history of science is the study of the evolution of scientific knowledge. Science, as a body of knowledge but also as a way of approaching and understanding the world, has developed gradually over … Read More

(Liberty Enlightening the World, known as the Statue of Liberty, was donated to the US by France and is an artistic personification of liberty. ) Generally speaking, freedom, or liberty is a concept that designates the possibility of action or … Read More

A thermal transfer, more commonly called heat, is one of the modes of heat energy exchange between two systems. This is a fundamental notion of thermodynamics. Unlike work, heat is a disorderly microscopic energy transfer. There are three types of … Read More

In philosophy, naturalism is the conception that everything that exists – objects and events – can be explained by natural causes or principles. Extending all forms of transcendence, naturalism conceives of philosophical activity as an extension of scientific activity. Naturalism … Read More

As a result of the controversies over alternative medicine, the medical school through his dean suspended its university diploma of homeopathy for the beginning academic year in expectation of the position of the Haute Autorité de Santé (High Authority of … Read More

Origins of the theory Francis Bacon’s model According to the English philosopher Francis Bacon, it is the observations and experiences that give us access to the real, and the theory follows from generalized induction. For Bacon, the construction of theories … Read More

(An image generated using an evolutionary algorithm) Evolutionary art is a form of generative art in which works of art from the visual arts, music and performing arts are created using evolutionary algorithms. Evolutionary algorithms are methods for solving optimization problems using the principles of natural evolution. By conceiving of artistic processes as an optimization, can be … Read More

In physics, matter is what makes up any body having a tangible reality. The four most common states are the solid state, the liquid state, the gaseous state and the plasma state. Matter occupies space and has a mass. Thus, … Read More

Idealism is any philosophical theory which considers that the ultimate nature of reality rests on the mind, on abstract forms, or on mental representations. From the point of view of the philosophy of knowledge, idealism (reality is abstract and concrete, … Read More

(A typical tape measure with both metric and imperial units and two US pennies for comparison) Physical measurement is the action of determining the value or values ​​of a quantity (length, capacity, etc.) by comparison with a constant quantity of … Read More