| 1. | "
To begin, Rejai and Phillips have a stated preference for empirical
inquiry over philosophical analysis, dismissing offhand the
"speculative" (11) and "non-scientific" (18)
theories of Freud, Erikson, and Lasswell: "Although intuitively
attractive, [they] lack scientific foundation" (58)."
| Source: | Burks, Valerie. "Leaders and Leadership: An Appraisal of Theory andResearch" Perspectives on Political Science 27.3 June 22 1998: 188-189
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| 2. | "
Moreover, one of Hume's aims was to make the study of ethics more
empirical and less speculative, and his disdain for abstract
philosophical theorizing is a thread woven through many of his writings."
| Source: | Churchill, Larry R. "Are We Professionals? A Critical Look at the Social Role of Bioethicists" Daedalus 128.4 Sept. 22 1999: 253
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| 3. | " Evolutionary biology
was initially considered a pseudo-science, since progress was associated
with speculative metaphysics, it functioned as a substitute religion, it
had no empirical basis, and failed to produce economic benefits and
attract grants."
| Source: | van der Meer, Jitse M. "Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in EvolutionaryBiology" Journal of Interdisciplinary History Sept. 1 1999: 203
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| 4. | " In the Middle
Ages, Music was altogether a mathematical--and therefore
rational--discipline, as well as a speculative and philosophical science
attempting to find Divinity."
| Source: | BRUNO, PASCAL. "DONNERSTAG AUS LICHT: A NEW MYTH, OR SIMPLY AN UPDATING OF A KNOWLEDGE?" Perspectives of New Music 37.1 Jan. 1 1999: 133
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| 5. | " After discussing Hegel and Kant,
Kirkman concludes that speculative philosophy is a poor guide for
environmental thinking about nature."
| Source: | Dutton, Denis. "Skeptical Environmentalism: The Limits of Philosophy and Science" Wilson Quarterly 26.4 Sept. 22 2002: 126-128
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| 6. | "... on animals to humans; interpreting
correlation as causation; prematurely claiming as fact conjectures and
hypotheses; and, most of all, drawing unwarranted conclusions about
teaching practice from this empirical yet speculative research."
| Source: | Hruby, George G. "Teaching with the Brain in Mind" Roeper Review 21.4 May 1 1999: 326
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| 7. | " Because this has not yet been
demonstrated empirically, our prescriptions must be viewed as
speculative."
| Source: | SCHLESINGER, MARK,LAU, RICHARD R. "The Meaning and Measure of Policy Metaphors" American Political Science Review 94.3 Sept. 1 2000: 611
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| 8. | "
It is worth noting here that the institutionalist commitment to
empirical scientific method was contrasted not only with the
metaphysical and untestable nature of much orthodox theory, but also
with the overly speculative nature of much of Veblen's work."
| Source: | Rutherford, Malcolm. "Institutionalism Between the Wars" Journal of Economic Issues 34.2 June 1 2000: 291
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| 9. | " Linkages of the field of study, attention,
studying, and life satisfaction, while being speculative in previous
discussion (Rogers, 1991), acquire empirical support in the present
study."
| Source: | CHEUNG, CHAU-KIU. "STUDYING AS A SOURCE OF LIFE SATISFACTION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS" College Student Journal 34.1 Mar. 1 2000: 79
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| 10. | "
Empirical work attempted to determine whether there was evidence for a
demand-side link through speculative and precautionary motives for
holding assets (Mizen and Pentecost [1994])."
| Source: | MILNER, CHRIS,MIZEN, PAUL,PENTECOST, ERIC. "A CROSS-COUNTRY PANEL ANALYSIS OF CURRENCY SUBSTITUTION AND TRADE" Economic Inquiry 38.2 Apr. 1 2000: 206
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| 11. | "
Despite the volume, depth, and detail, of the quantitative
analysis, the authors fail to provide a convincing empirical foundation
for several of the more speculative conclusions they reach about
political behavior."
| Source: | Cook, Brian J. "Calculating Risks?: The Spatial and Political Dimensions ofHazardous Waste Policy" American Political Science Review 94.3 Sept. 1 2000: 721
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| 12. | " He is largely successful, although his accomplishment is
mostly in the theoretical and speculative rather than the empirical
realm."
| Source: | Neiman, Max. "Just Institutions Matter: The Moral and Political Logic of theUniversal Welfare State" American Political Science Review 94.3 Sept. 1 2000: 729
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| 13. | " Concealed from philosophy and speculative
reason, the absolute, noumenal constitution of the thing in itself
(which includes the individual's own identity) lies beyond the
limit of human knowledge."
| Source: | MILNES, TIM. "Seeing in the Dark: Hazlitt's Immanent Idealism" Studies in Romanticism 39.1 Mar. 22 2000: 3
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| 14. | "
See Louis Groarke, "Following in the Footsteps of Aristotle: The
Chicago School, the Glue-Stick, and the Razor," Journal of
Speculative Philosophy IV (Summer 1992): 190-205.
(38.) Diane Kelder, Aspects of 'Official' Painting and
Philosophic..."
| Source: | Groarke, Louis. "The Deceitful Artwork: Beautiful Falsehood or False Beauty?" Humanitas 12.2 Sept. 22 1999: 64
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| 15. | " Only by overcoming the external, objective, and sensuous form,
reconciling it with universal, internal, and spiritual consciousness,
can speculative philosophy attain to a truly religious perspective."
| Source: | GUARINO, THOMAS. "INDISCRETION: FINITUDE AND THE NAMING OF GOD" Theological Studies 61.2 June 1 2000: 373
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| 16. | " Adopting the
perspective of a reader responding to ongoing intellectual debates, the
Philosophical Letters addresses questions of speculative moral
philosophy in the works of Hobbes, Descartes, and others, while the
Observations considers the new experimental philosophy advocated by
Hooke, Boyle, and the Royal Society."
| Source: | SPILLER, ELIZABETH A. "Reading through Galileo's Telescope. Margaret Cavendish and the Experience of Reading [*]" Renaissance Quarterly 53.1 Mar. 22 2000: 192
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| 17. | " While such a judgement is
no doubt abstract and speculative, it seems to me that it need not be
relegated to the realm of mere philosophical intuition."
| Source: | MANSON, NEIL A. "Anthropocentirism and the design argument" Religious Studies 36.2 June 1 2000: 163
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| 18. | " Further, the
PES committee described three interconnected phases of philosophical
thinking: the descriptive/analytical task, the critical/evaluative task,
and the speculative task."
| Source: | Counelis, James Steve. "Generic Research Designs in the Study of Education: A Systemic Typology" Systems Research and Behavioral Science 17.1 Jan. 1 2000: 51
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| 19. | "... the Sunni revival was its attack against
the philosophers and against "speculative philosophy," as
already noted before in her coupling of Ghazali and Ibn Khaldan."
| Source: | SALIBA, GEORGE. "ARTISANS AND MATHEMATICIANS IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM" Journal of the American Oriental Society 119.4 Oct. 1 1999: 637
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| 20. | " The focus here is on
the division of academic theology into a speculative and a moral branch,
tasks that were formerly subsumed under philosophy and poetry."
| Source: | OTTEN, WILLEMIEN. "HERETICS AND SCHOLARS IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES, 1000-1200" Theological Studies 60.3 Sept. 1 1999: 546
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| 21. | " Rather, amid some of
the familiar protestations to the contrary, he openly ventures into the
more speculative domains of philosophy, the humanistic tradition, and
even a metaphysics of sorts."
| Source: | Bell, Mark,Iverson, Corinne. "REALITY, TRANSFERENCE AND THE CLASSROOM: CES ENFANTS DE MA VIE BY GABRIELLE ROY" Romanic Review 89.4 Nov. 1 1998: 621
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| 22. | "
The rest of Speaking of Beauty is interesting but more abstract,
speculative, and argumentative than his discussion of the James story,
indicating that Donoghue is better as a practical than as a
philosophical critic."
| Source: | Pratt, William. "Denis Donoghue. Speaking of Beauty" World Literature Today 78.1 Jan. 1 2004: 78-80
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| 23. | "
ISSN 1532-8090. "Publishes quantitative, qualitative,
philosophical, historical, speculative, and bibliographic articles that
are peer reviewed and contribute to an understanding of any focus and
level of music education" (from Web page's "Purpose &
Copyright" statement).
"
| Source: | . "Research and Issues in Music Education" Notes 61.1 Sept. 1 2004: 183-184
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| 24. | "... As I noted in passing above, the mixture of logic and speculative
reason with moral and religious transformation that is commonplace in
Eastern philosophies is not the case in the West."
| Source: | Heisig, James W. "NON-I AND THOU: NISHIDA, BUBER, AND THE MORAL CONSEQUENCES OF SELF-ACTUALIZATION" Philosophy East and West 50.2 Apr. 1 2000: 179
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| 25. | " These three categories nearly
exhaust the theoretical as well as empirical literature of normal
science -- indeed they offer a concise definition of the process of
normal science itself."
| Source: | ROBERTS, LISA J. "THOMAS KUHN'S THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS" ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 57.1 Mar. 22 2000: 59
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