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Parent topics
- Philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. [e]
- Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge about the physical world derived from the activities of observation and experimentation. [e]
Subtopics
- Demarcation problem [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Experimental science [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Falsificationism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Laws of nature [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Occam's Razor [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Problem of Induction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Reductionism [r]: The attempt to explain phenomena by basic laws of physics and chemistry. [e]
- Scientific explanation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scientific method [r]: Systematic inquiry based on hypotheses and their testing in light of empirical evidence. [e]
- Scientific realism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Theoretical science [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Verificationism [r]: Principles and criteria for meaningfulness that requires a non-analytic, meaningful sentence to be empirically verifiable. [e]
Subfields
- Philosophy of biology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philosophy of chemistry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philosophy of economics [r]: an account of the logical processes by which the intellectual discipline of economics has been constructed. [e]
- Philosophy of mathematics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philosophy of physics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philosophy of psychology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philosophy of social science [r]: Add brief definition or description
Philosophers of science
- Aristotle [r]: (384-322 BCE) Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, and one of the most influential figures in the western world between 350 BCE and the sixteenth century. [e]
- Gaston Bachelard [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Francis Bacon [r]: (1561-1626) English Renaissance essayist and philosopher who argued that science should proceed empirically, by induction. [e]
- Daniel Dennett [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pierre Duhem [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Dupré [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paul Feyerabend [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ian Hacking [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Hobbes [r]: English political philosopher of the 17th century. [e]
- Thomas Kuhn [r]: (1921–1996) American philosopher who revolutionized philosophy of science by describing science as being driven by paradigm-defining revolutions rather than steady progress. [e]
- Imre Lakatos [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Larry Laudan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ernest Nagel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Karl Popper [r]: (July 28 1902 – September 17 1994), One of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century. [e]
- Michael Ruse [r]: (1940–) Philosopher of science with a primary interest in evolution. [e]
- Elliott Sober [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Stove [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bas van Fraassen [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Engineering [r]: The profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to economically use the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind. [e]
- Epistemology [r]: Philosophical discipline dealing with the nature of knowledge and justification of beliefs. [e]
- Evidence-based medicine [r]: The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. [e]
- History of Science [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Inductivism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philosophy of Social Science [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Postmodernism and science [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pseudoscience [r]: Any theory that supporters claim to be scientific but which the scientific community deems fallacious [e]
- Science studies [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Science Wars [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scientific method [r]: Systematic inquiry based on hypotheses and their testing in light of empirical evidence. [e]
- Sociology of science [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Statistical significance [r]: The probability of a false rejection of the null hypothesis in a statistical test. [e]
- Thought experiment [r]: Add brief definition or description
