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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?
Holm, Søren, Hofmann, Bjørn
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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?
Holm, Søren, Hofmann, Bjørn
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From the Philosophy of Science to the Philosophy of the Sciences
Journal of Philosophical Research, 2015The 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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The Journal of Philosophy, 1930 THE suggestion by Prof. F. G. Donnan (NATURE, June 7, 1930) that an international conference of scientists and philosophers, and perhaps others, might help toward clarifying the present confused state of men's thinking on most of the major problems of Nature and human life, has received considerable notice—in America, at least.
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Philosophy of Science and Science of Philosophy
Philosophy of Science, 1935It 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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Soviet Studies in Philosophy, 1962 In the sense in which astronomy or botany are sciences, philosophy is not a science. Philosophers have theories, but their theories do not enable them to make predictions; they can not be empirically confirmed or refuted in the way that scientific theories can. But, it will be objected, this is not true of all the sciences. Palaeontologists do not make
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Philosophy of the Sciences [PDF]
Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1935 Michael Baur, Leonard H. Otting
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, 1972 Science as knowledge referring to data and structuring them in interrelations is, according to Kant, a system. At the same time, science exhibits the characteristic feature of reason as the legislative faculty. These two aspects appear to be interrelated because science is grounded in reason. Reason is a system, though its employment is pure.
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Quine's philosophy of science [PDF]
Synthese, 1968 A fairly definite philosophy of science can be extracted from Quine’s Word and Object (henceforth referred to as WO). Earlier versions of his philosophy of science, for example in his From a Logical Point of View, contain phenomenalist and instrumentalist tendencies of thought, but in WO these have almost entirely disappeared in favour of an explicitly
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Philosophy, 1926
In various ways literature and the arts, science, religion and politics, come home to the ordinary man and are real for him. It is easy to see how they affect his life. Philosophy seems a thing more remote. Has it, too, had its influence on mankind? Can it point, directly or indirectly, to services rendered, work done, in the service of civilization?.
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In various ways literature and the arts, science, religion and politics, come home to the ordinary man and are real for him. It is easy to see how they affect his life. Philosophy seems a thing more remote. Has it, too, had its influence on mankind? Can it point, directly or indirectly, to services rendered, work done, in the service of civilization?.
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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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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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