A school of thought refers to a collection of people who share similar opinions or a similar point of view in philosophy, in their academic discipline, in their beliefs, in a social movement, in a cultural movement or in an artistic movement. Also, there are several schools of economic thought. The same discipline, the same religion or the same movement can maintain several competing schools of thought.
Schools of thought are often named after the initiator of them. They can also be named according to where they were founded: the Ionian school of philosophy, which is said to have originated in Ionia in ancient Greece, the Chicago school of architecture, which originated in Chicago in the United States, the Prague School, named after the Prague Linguistics Circle or the Toronto School founded in Toronto by Harold Innis.
Epistemology of experimental gravity – Scientific rationality
The evolution of gravitational tests from an epistemological perspective framed in the concept of rational reconstruction of Imre Lakatos, based on his methodology of research programmes. Unlike other works on the same subject, the evaluated period is very extensive, starting … Read More
The distinction between falsification and refutation in the demarcation problem of Karl Popper
Despite the criticism of Karl Popper’s falsifiability theory for the demarcation between science and non-science, mainly pseudo-science, this criterion is still very useful, and perfectly valid after it was perfected by Popper and his followers. Moreover, even in his original … Read More
The singularities as ontological limits of the general relativity
Author: Nicolae Sfetcu ESSAYS Collection The singularities from the general relativity resulting by solving Einstein’s equations were and still are the subject of many scientific debates: Are there singularities in spacetime, or not? Big Bang was an initial singularity? If … Read More
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