Αποτελέσματα Αναζήτησης
INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. Miran Epstein. Chapter Contents. The metaphysical basis of science. The object of scientific inquiry. The epistemic possibility of objects. The nature of a scientific object. The objectives of science. Explanations in general.
Theory of science is a philosophical discipline, but is also located in a context of other disciplines dealing with “science” as their object, and has a long tradi-tion of philosophical theories of knowledge.
The aim of philosophy of science is to understand what scientists did and how they did it, where history of science shows that they performed basic research very well.
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. determine the causal link between a specific factor (such as cigarette smoking) and a disease (such as emphysema or lung cancer): Strength of association: the stronger the association, the less likely the relation-ship is due to chance or a confounding variable.
Structured in two parts, the book first tackles the central concepts of the philosophy of science, such as the problem of induction, falsificationism, and underdetermination, and important figures and movements, such as the logical empiricists, Thomas Kuhn, and Paul Feyerabend.
The Philosophy of Science Introduction What is science? What does it aim to do? These are probably two of the most important general questions that can be asked about science. It is in attempting to formulate answers to these questions that many detailed discussions in this area of philosophy arise.
This chapter introduces the philosophical foundations of the theory of science, locates the theory of science in the context and in distinction to other ‘sciences of science’, reconstructs attempts to determine science and scientificity more closely and to define the concept of ‘truth’.
