Concept information
Preferred term
philosophy of science
Definition
- Philosophy of science is reflection on the nature and practices of science. It seeks to understand the nature of science, and what distinguishes scientific from other, nonscientific knowledge. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Philosophy of Science]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- abduction and inference to the best explanation
- causal explanation in philosophy of science
- complexity
- context of discovery versus context of justification
- covering-law model
- critical rationalism
- deduction
- duhem-quine thesis and the social sciences
- economics of scientific knowledge
- econophysics
- emergence
- falsifiability
- Feyerabend's Critique of Rationality in Science
- history of positivism
- hypothetico-deductivism
- Imre Lakatos
- induction and confirmation
- instrumentalism of scientific theories and constructive empiricism
- kuhn and social science
- kuhn on scientific revolutions and incommensurability
- laws of nature
- laws versus teleology
- logical positivism/logical empiricism
- mechanism and mechanistic explanation
- metaphysics and science
- models in science
- naturwissenschaften versus geisteswissenschaften
- neurath's unity of science and the encyclopedia project
- normativism versus realism
- objectivity
- observation and theory-ladenness
- pessimistic induction
- philosophy of experiment
- popper's philosophy of science
- pseudoscience
- recent uses of Bayesianism
- reduction and the unity of science
- relativism in scientific theories
- retrodiction and the epistemology of future studies
- scientific method
- situational logic
- social constructivism
- technological convergence
- theories of explanation
- thought experiments
- value neutrality in science
- verificationism
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/philosophy_of_science
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