Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions are...
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the philosophy of science, structuralism (also known as scientific structuralism or as the structuralistic theory-concept) asserts that all aspects of reality...
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many of the institutional and professional features of science began to take shape, along with the changing of "natural philosophy" to "natural science"....
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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...
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In philosophy of science, idealization is the process by which scientific models assume facts about the phenomenon being modeled that are strictly false...
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Commensurability is a concept in the philosophy of science whereby scientific theories are said to be "commensurable" if scientists can discuss the theories...
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Philosophy in this sense means how social science integrates with other related scientific disciplines, which implies a rigorous, systematic endeavor...
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aesthetics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of history,...
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The philosophy of computer science is concerned with the philosophical questions that arise within the study of computer science. There is still no common...
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history and philosophy of science (HPS) is an academic discipline that encompasses the philosophy of science and the history of science. Although many...
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