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Philosophy of Science Association
Overview
The Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) is an international academic organization founded in 1933 that promotes research, teaching, and free discussion of issues in the philosophy of science from diverse standpoints. The PSA engages in activities such as the publishing of periodicals, essays and monographs in the field of the philosophy of science; holding biennial conferences; awarding of prizes for distinguished work in the field; supporting early-career scholars; and sponsoring in public engagement events.
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Philosophy afterwards endeavoured to account for them from more familiar causes, or from such as mankind were better acquainted with, than the agency of the gods. As those great phenomena are the first objects of human curiosity, so the science which pretends to explain them must naturally have been the first branch of philosophy that was cultivated. The first philosophers, accordingly, of whom history has preserved…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Close in meaning to Philosophy of Science Association; the term itself is not named.
Similarly, the study of the human mind, which was a part of philosophy, has now been separated from philosophy and has become the science of psychology. Thus, to a great extent, the uncertainty of philosophy is more apparent than real: those questions which are already capable of definite answers are placed in the sciences, while those only to which, at present, no definite answer can be given, remain to form the…
Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
States what Philosophy of Science Association is.
Philosophy starts from some deep and wide way of responding to the difficulties life presents, but it grows only when material is at hand for making this practical response conscious, articulate and communicable. Accompanying the economic, political and ecclesiastical changes which were alluded to in an earlier lecture, was a scientific revolution enormous in scope and leaving unchanged almost no detail of belief…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
Close in meaning to Philosophy of Science Association; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Philosophy of Science Association
- Bas van Fraassen
- Jaakko Hintikka
- Wesley C. Salmon
- Thomas Kuhn
- Elliott Sober
- Adolf Grünbaum
- David Hull (philosopher)
- Curt John Ducasse
- Ernan McMullin
- Mary Hesse
- Alison Wylie
- Israel Scheffler
- Hasok Chang
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Part of Elliott Sober.
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