Janet Stemwedel at Adventures in Science and Ethics has asked scientists what they (as opposed to philosophers) mean by "theory". I intend to write how philosophers have use the term sometime soon, when this grant application is done and a paper revised, but if you are a scientist, go visit her and comment.
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The younger Free-Ride offspring's soccer team has been playing in a regional tournament this weekend, and we're girding our loins and guarding our shins to go out and play a second day of tournament games.
From the new experimental philosophy reader, edited by Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols:
Philosophers are still grumbling about Lawrence Krauss, who openly dissed philosophy (word to the philosophers reading this: he
Back in the 1600s, when neurology was born, it wasn't scientists who were looking at brains. The word scientist didn't exist. Instead, those visionary folks would have called themselves natural philosophers.
when this grant application is done
Running out of pencils, huh?
and books... gotta buy books. They don't grow on trees, you know.
Well, strictly speaking books are trees, aren't they? (or at least produced by pulping trees).