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From the Philosophy of Science to the Philosophy of the Sciences

Journal of Philosophical Research, 2015
The philosophy of science took shape as an autonomous discipline in the first decades of the Twentieth Century in connection with the movement known as logical positivism or logical empiricism. According to logical empiricists philosophy of science ought to perform a “rational reconstruction” aimed at exhibiting the logical structure of scientific ...
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Philosophy of Science

2015
This chapter introduces and addresses some basic questions regarding the philosophy of science. For example, what is science, and how can it be differentiated from other social activities? What constitutes a scientific fact, and what characterizes scientific knowledge? What does it mean when one says that smoking causes cancer?
Hofmann, Bjørn, Holm, Søren
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Philosophy of Science and Science of Philosophy

Philosophy of Science, 1935
It is proposed to examine the consequences which ensue if philosophy is deliberately oriented around the methods and results of science. That such reorientation has been more or less unconsciously taking place for centuries is evident; the problem demands particular discussion at this time only because the reorientation has gone so far and with such ...
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The philosophy of science

1990
We live in an age of science; and throughout this century in particular man has made extraordinary progress both in his understanding of the universe and in his use of scientific knowledge to improve the quality of life. All around us we find examples of its benefits: television, aeroplanes, new medicines to conquer disease, computers, synthetic ...
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