Concept
Philosophy of science
Overview
branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science
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I. Science, that is, Knowledge of Consequences; which is called also PHILOSOPHY A. Consequences from Accidents of Bodies Naturall; which is called NATURALL PHILOSOPHY 1. Consequences from the Accidents common to all Bodies Naturall; which are Quantity, and Motion. a. Consequences from Quantity, and Motion Indeterminate; which, being the Principles or first foundation of Philosophy, is called Philosophia Prima b…
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
States what Philosophy of science is.
It is suggestive that European philosophy originated (among the Athenians) under the direct pressure of educational questions. The earlier history of philosophy, developed by the Greeks in Asia Minor and Italy, so far as its range of topics is concerned, is mainly a chapter in the history of science rather than of philosophy as that word is understood to-day. It had nature for its subject, and speculated as to how…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
States what Philosophy of science is.
On the contrary, by this methodology is understood the mode in which we can give the laws of pure practical reason access to the human mind and influence on its maxims, that is, by which we can make the objectively practical reason subjectively practical also.
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason
States what Philosophy of science is; the author is tied to Philosophy of science in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Philosophy of science
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Richard Avenarius
- Avicenna
- Nelson Goodman
- Ernest Nagel
- David Stove
- Georg Henrik von Wright
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Auguste Comte
- Carl Gustav Hempel
- Bas van Fraassen
- Norwood Russell Hanson
- Michael Ruse
- Hartry Field
- Stephen Toulmin
- Hans Reichenbach
- John Stuart Mill
- Giambattista Vico
- Karl Popper
- Jaakko Hintikka
- Friedrich Waismann
- Herbert Feigl
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Simone Weil
Related ideas
- Evidence-based medicine
- Empiricism
- Celestial mechanics
- Analogy
- Cognition
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- History
- Falsifiability
- Oxyrhynchus Papyri
- Francis Bacon
- Analysis
- Artificial intelligence
- Neo-Kantianism
- General relativity
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Philosophy of physics
- Genetic engineering
- Harvard University Press
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
- Auguste Comte
- Technocracy
- Philosophy
- Carl Gustav Hempel
- Placebo
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Atmosphere
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
- Correlation does not imply causation
- Creation science
- Cultural anthropology
- Hydrosphere
- Instrumental and value rationality
- Loeb Classical Library
- Martin Gardner
- Modern synthesis (20th century)
- Philip Kitcher
- Placebo
- Social research
- Statistical hypothesis test
- Structure and agency
- Technocracy
- The Order of Things
- Triangle
- World history (field)
- Fringe science
- Normal science
- Science wars
- P-value
- Earth science