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  2. Philosophy of science - Wikipedia

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    Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions are the difference between science and non-science , the reliability of scientific theories, and the ultimate purpose and meaning of science as a human endeavour.

  3. History and philosophy of science - Wikipedia

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    The history and philosophy of science (HPS) is an academic discipline that encompasses the philosophy of science and the history of science. Although many scholars in the field are trained primarily as either historians or as philosophers, there are degree-granting departments of HPS at several prominent universities.

  4. Paul Feyerabend - Wikipedia

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    The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 33(4): 397–409. Couvalis, George. 1988. "Feyerabend and Laymon on Brownian Motion." Philosophy of Science, 415–421. Thomason, Neil. 1994. "The Power of ARCHED Hypotheses: Feyerabend's Galileo as a Closet Rationalist." The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 45(1), 255–264.

  5. Category:Philosophy of science - Wikipedia

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    Idealization (philosophy of science) Impact evaluation; Inquiry; International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science; International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology; International Union of History and Philosophy of Science; Intersubjective verifiability; Introduction to M-theory; Islamic bioethics

  6. Constructivism (philosophy of science) - Wikipedia

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    Constructivism is a view in the philosophy of science that maintains that scientific knowledge is constructed by the scientific community, which seeks to measure and construct models of the natural world.

  7. Scientism - Wikipedia

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    Scientism is the belief that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality. [1] [2]While the term was defined originally to mean "methods and attitudes typical of or attributed to natural scientists", some scholars, as well as political and religious leaders, have also adopted it as a pejorative term with the meaning "an exaggerated ...

  8. Inductionism - Wikipedia

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    Inductionism is the scientific philosophy where laws are "induced" from sets of data.As an example, one might measure the strength of electrical forces at varying distances from charges and induce the inverse square law of electrostatics.

  9. Science - Wikipedia

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    Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. [1] [2] Modern science is typically divided into two or three major branches: [3] the natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, and biology), which study the physical world; and the behavioural sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology ...