Philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. The central questions concern what counts as science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the purpose of science. This discipline overlaps with metaphysics, ontology and epistemology, for example, when it explores the relationship between science and truth. There is no consensus on many central problems in philosophy of science, including whether science can reveal the truth about unobservable things and whether scientific reasoning can be justified at all. In addition to these general questions about science as a whole, philosophers of science consider problems that apply to particular sciences such as biology or physics. Some philosophers of science also use contemporary results in science to reach conclusions about philosophy.
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Pages in category "Philosophy of science"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 206 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).
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- Carnap Papers
- Cartesian anxiety
- Cartesian doubt
- Causality
- Causation in Sciences Project
- Center for Philosophy of Science
- The central science
- Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds
- Ceteris paribus
- Classical limit
- Classification of the sciences (Peirce)
- Closed circle
- Cognitive closure (philosophy)
- Commensurability (philosophy of science)
- Computational epistemology
- Condition of possibility
- Conflict of interest
- Consilience
- Cooking (science)
- Coordinative definition
- Copernican principle
- Corroborating evidence
- Criticism of science
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- Parable of the Sunfish
- Paradigm shift
- Paradigm Shift: How Expert Opinions Keep Changing on Life, the Universe and Everything
- Pessimistic induction
- Philosophy of artificial intelligence
- Philosophy of chemistry
- Philosophy of computer science
- Philosophy of motion
- Scientific community metaphor
- Philosophy of Science Association
- Philosophy of space and time
- Physical law
- Philosophy of physics
- Physics (Aristotle)
- Physics envy
- Planck's principle
- Positivism
- Post-normal science
- Postmodern philosophy
- Pragmatism
- Predictive power
- Preformationism
- Problem of induction
- Pseudoskepticism
- Psychology of science
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- Oliva Sabuco
- Science of morality
- Scientific community
- Scientific consensus
- Scientific controversy
- Scientific law
- Scientific method
- Scientific temper
- Serendipity
- Simple (philosophy)
- Situational analysis
- Philosophy of social science
- Social epistemology
- Sociology of the history of science
- Special sciences
- Stage theory
- Philosophy of statistics
- Statistical inference
- Science studies
- Subjectivity
- Systems philosophy