Experimental philosophy is a form of philosophical inquiry that makes at least partial use of empirical research — especially opinion polling — in order to address persistent philosophical questions.

I had the opportunity of being acquainted with divers worthy persons, inquisitive natural philosophy, and other parts of human learning ; and particularly of what hath been called the New Philosophy or Experimental Philosophy.

Eileen O ’ Neill offers an overview of Cavendish ’ s natural philosophy and its critical reception in her introduction to Observations upon Experimental Philosophy.

Experimental psychologists use a range of methods and do not confine themselves to a strictly experimental approach, partly because developments in the philosophy of science have had an impact on the exclusive prestige of experimentation.

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B. F. Skinner was influential in defining radical behaviorism, a philosophy codifying the basis of his school of research ( named the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, or EAB.

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The Jacksonian Professorship of Natural Philosophy is one of the senior chairs in Natural and Experimental philosophy at Cambridge University, and was founded in 1782 by a bequest from the Reverend Richard Jackson.

Primarily influenced by John Cage's Experimental Music Composition classes at the New School for Social Research and an emerging interest in eastern philosophy, a number of avant-garde artists in New York were beginning to run parallel and competing happenings at the beginning of the 1960s.

Experimental philosophy is an emerging field of philosophical inquiry that makes use of empirical data — often gathered through surveys which probe the intuitions of ordinary people — in order to inform research on philosophical questions.

While the philosophical movement Experimental Philosophy began around 2000, the use of empirical methods in philosophy far predates the emergence of the recent academic field.

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** ( As of July 2009, The Experimental Philosophy Page and Blog list around 120 different contributors who are actively involved with research in experimental philosophy.

For flying boats, having started initially with Curtiss H boats bought from the United States, a modified version with a new, more seaworthy hull, was designed by RNAS Commander John Porte at the Seaplane Experimental Station at Felixstowe, and these aircraft became known as the Felixstowe F. 1, Felixstowe F. 2, and Felixstowe F. 3, culminating in the Felixstowe F. 5 of 1918.

Experimental research on visual search in animals was initially prompted by field observations published by Luc Tinbergen ( 1960 ).

It is believed that Antrax was in fact initially known as Oronyx Experimental and appears in The Elves of Cintra.

* April: The British Navy formed the " Experimental Submarine Flotilla ", initially based at Portsmouth.

In early 1957 studies began on how the Arrow Mk. 2 might be developed into a " Long Range Arrow " to meet the requirements for the USAF's Long Range Interceptor Experimental ( LRIX ) program.

Built in the late 1920s by Standard Oil Company, the building housed a U. S Experimental Station in the early 1920s that began flying mail for the US Post Office.

With the establishment of the military Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down in 1939, Amesbury began to expand.

By mid-1993 the division at Fort Hood had completed changes of unit names to those associated with the 5th Division, and began participation in the early stages of the Army's Experimental Force, Force XXI.

Experimental use of high-visibility clothing began in 1964 on the Scottish Region.

Lane began acting professionally at the age of six at the La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in New York, where she appeared in a production of Medea.

Experimental station JG2AS began broadcasting on January 10, 1966, providing digitally encoded time signals in the longwave band at 40 kHz.

Experimental broadcasts in the main cities began on 5 May 1975, before nationwide service commenced on 5 January 1976.

His involvement with performance began with the Hendon Experimental Art Club and the Hendon-based magazine And in 1951.

In 1957, F. G. Jensen and Willard F. Searle, Jr began testing methods for manual and automatic buoyancy compensation for the United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit ( NEDU ).

Three years later, the Experimental Studies Program ( reorganized as the Innovative Studies Program in 1975 ) bearing some consanguinity with contemporaneous initiatives at the Tussman Experimental College and the proactive do it yourself dilettantism of Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog began to enroll students, instructors, and local residents in credited and cocurricular courses that encompassed myriad disciplines, including video art ( under Raindance Foundation co-founder and Marshall McLuhan acolyte Paul Ryan ), dance therapy, clowning, camping, and ecodesign.

He released Viola 0. 8 in 1991, and then after graduating began to develop Viola even further while working with " Berkeley's Experimental Computing Facility " as well as at a few start ups.

Experimental theatre is a general term for various movements in Western theatre that began in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his Ubu plays as a rejection of both the age in particular and, in general, the dominant ways of writing and producing plays.

After an early residency at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club in New York, the company began performing at Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, and other venues in New York and elsewhere.

Experimental broadcasts began in September 1956 from the Feira Popular ( an entertainment park ) studios in Lisbon.

In 1967 while still a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, he began collaborating with director Jozef Patkowski and the Experimental Studio on sound performances.

Returning to Vassar, she began to institute many of her new-found ideas with the Vassar Experimental Theatre, which she created.

Experimental flights in WJ992 began late in 1957, leading to automatic landings with auto-throttle in March 1958.

At the age of 17, he began studying in the Experimental Animation Program at the California Institute of the Arts for four years, earning a BFA degree.

During the 19th century the name began to be used for a larger area in the vicinity of the house, and the Royal Swedish Academy for Agriculture established its Experimental field there.

An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction, ( 1798 ), Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society p. 102 is a scientific paper by Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford that provided a substantial challenge to established theories of heat and began the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics.

Experimental DVB-T broadcasts began in 2001 using the MPEG-2 standard.

This design-based analysis was discussed and developed by Francis J. Anscombe at Rothamsted Experimental Station and by Oscar Kempthorne at Iowa State University.

Experimental measurements of the speed of sound in air were carried out successfully between 1630 and 1680 by a number of investigators, prominently Mersenne.

* " Absalom " is an album by the Experimental / Progressive band " Stick Men " featuring Tony Levin, Markus Reuter and Pat Mastelotto.

Experimental cancer treatments are medical therapies intended or claimed to treat cancer ( see also tumor ) by improving on, supplementing or replacing conventional methods ( surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and immunotherapy ).

RTGs had been used for years in planetary exploration without mishap: the Lincoln Experimental Satellites 8 / 9, launched by the U. S. Department of Defense, had 7 % more plutonium on board than Galileo, and the two Voyager spacecraft each carried 80 % as much plutonium as Galileo did.

* Genosha recordings: Experimental hardcore / gabber / darkcore label run by The Outside Agency.

ELinks (" Experimental / Enhanced Links ") is a fork of Links led by Petr Baudiš.

Experimental studies dating from the 1990s have shown that circadian rhythms are generated by a " genetic clock " consisting of a special set of genes whose expression level rises and falls over the course of the day.

Forests of Puerto Rico are well represented by the flora of the Luquillo Experimental Forest ( LEF ), a Long Term Ecological Research Network site managed by the United States Forest Service and University of Puerto Rico.

Experimental subjects challenged by acute pain and patients in chronic pain experience impairments in attention control, working memory, mental flexibility, problem solving, and information processing speed.

write in the Journal of Experimental Medicine that research shows that transplanted cells that contain their new host's nuclear DNA could still be rejected by the invidual's immune system due to foreign mitochondrial DNA.

The next major advance can be seen in the Birch gun developed by the British for their motorised warfare experimental brigade ( the Experimental Mechanized Force ) after the end of the War.

Experimental research of tokamak systems started in 1956 in Kurchatov Institute, Moscow by a group of Soviet scientists led by Lev Artsimovich.

* A History of Experimental Film and Video by AL Rees ( British Film Institute, 1999 ).

Von Braun's thesis, Construction, Theoretical, and Experimental Solution to the Problem of the Liquid Propellant Rocket ( dated 16 April 1934 ), was kept classified by the German army and was not published until 1960.

Milan also hosts three important botanical gardens: the Milan University Experimental Botanical Garden ( a small botanical garden operated by the Istituto di Scienze Botaniche ), the Brera Botanical Garden ( another botanical garden, founded in 1774 by Fulgenzio Witman, an abbot under the orders of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, and restored in 1998 after several years of abandonment ) and the Cascina Rosa Botanical Garden.

* Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science ( online book ) by Charles Bazerman

EPCOT is an acronym of Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, which was the name originally given by Walt Disney to a conceptual Utopian city of the future that he had wanted to build on the site that is now Walt Disney World.

The name Epcot derives from the acronym EPCOT ( Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow ), a utopian city of the future planned by Walt Disney ( sometimes using the word " City " instead of " Community " when expanding the acronym ).

Operations of Experimental Forests and Ranges are directed by local research teams for the individual sites, by Research Stations for the regions in which they are located, and at the level of the Forest Service.