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1. plato.stanford.edu › entries › einstein-philscienceEinstein’s Philosophy of Science - Stanford Encyclopedia of ...

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   Feb 11, 2004 · Einstein’s own philosophy of science is an original synthesis of elements drawn from sources as diverse as neo-Kantianism, conventionalism, and logical empiricism, its distinctive feature being its novel blending of realism with a holist, underdeterminationist form of conventionalism.

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   • Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

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2. undsci.berkeley.edu › the-philosophy-of-scienceThe philosophy of science - Understanding Science

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   The philosophy of science is a field that deals with what science is, how it works, and the logic through which we build scientific knowledge. In this website, we present a rough synthesis of some new and some old ideas from the philosophy of science.

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   Mar 5, 2015 · The structure of scientific theories is a rich topic. Theorizing and modeling are core activities across the sciences, whether old (e.g., relativity theory, evolutionary theory) or new (e.g., climate modeling, cognitive science, and systems biology).

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   Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions are the difference between science and non-science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the ultimate purpose and meaning of science as a human endeavour.

5. www.britannica.com › topic › philosophy-of-sciencePhilosophy of science - Explanations, Laws, Theories

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   Explanations, laws, and theories. The logical-empiricist project of contrasting the virtues of science with the defects of other human ventures was only partly carried out by attempting to understand the logic of scientific justification. In addition, empiricists hoped to analyze the forms of scientific knowledge.

6. plato.stanford.edu › entries › kant-scienceKant’s Philosophy of Science - Stanford Encyclopedia of ...

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   Oct 21, 2003 · Historians of philosophy of science investigate, among other things, Kant’s work in the conceptual foundations of physics — in particular, his matter theory, his theory of motion, and his account of the basic laws of mechanics.

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   What is philosophy of Science?

   • Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions are the difference between science and non-science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the ultimate purpose and meaning of science as a human endeavour.

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   What is verificationism in science?

   • Verificationism, a traditional empiricist con-ception, maintains that a scientific explanation should entail predictions that are compatible with the explanation. Thus if successful, these will validate, which is to say confirm, its veracity.

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   What is a syntactic view of Philosophy?

   • According to the Syntactic View, which emerged mainly out of work of the Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism (see Coffa 1991; Friedman 1999; Creath 2014; Uebel 2014), philosophy most generally practiced is, and should be, the study of the logic of natural science, or Wissenschaftslogik (Carnap 1937, 1966; Hempel 1966).

   The Structure of Scientific Theories - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Do philoso-PheRS agree that science aims to produce'scientific' explanations?

   • Instead, philoso-phers fluctuate between the view that science has an inherent and immutable objective and the view that it ought to have a certain objective. In general, however, both approaches agree that science aims, or ought to aim, to produce ‘scientific’ explanations.

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   This chapter attempts to explain what science is by discussing competing answers from philoso- phers of science to six different questions. v The first question deals with the foundations of science, namely, the nature of its underlying premises.