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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 based on non–trivial refutable concepts that can be verified or rejected on the base of observation and experimentation [e]
Subtopics
- Abduction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Confirmation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]: Other things being equal—when several theories explain the same facts equally well, it is rational to prefer the most parsimonious of the theories. [e]
- Problem of Induction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Reductionism [r]: The attempt to replace high-level explanations of phenomena by more basic explanations, often in terms of interacting subsystems or parts. [e]
- Scientific explanation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scientific method [r]: The concept of systematic inquiry based on hypotheses and their testing in light of empirical evidence. [e]
- Scientific realism [r]: Philosophical position that posits that the entities proposed by science are real (as opposed to an epistemic abstraction). [e]
- 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]: Add brief definition or description
- Gaston Bachelard [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Francis Bacon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Daniel C. 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]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Kuhn [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]: Add brief definition or description
- Michael Ruse [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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
- Engineering [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Epistemology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Evidence-based medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]: Add brief definition or description
- Science studies [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Science Wars [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scientific method [r]: The concept of 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]: Add brief definition or description
- Thought experiment [r]: Add brief definition or description