List of philosophers of science

Short description: Wikipedia list article

This is a chronological list of philosophers of science. For an alphabetical name-list, see Category:Philosophers of science.

## Contents

* 1 Before the 16th century
* 2 16th century
* 3 17th century
* 4 18th century
* 5 19th century
* 6 1900–1930
* 7 1930–1960
* 8 1960–1980
* 9 1980–present

## Before the 16th century

* Socrates
* Democritus
* Plato
* Aristotle
* Empedocles
* Al-Ghazali
* Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen)
* Robert Grosseteste
* Roger Bacon
* Albert the Great
* Thomas Aquinas

## 16th century

* Sir Francis Bacon

## 17th century

* Galileo Galilei
* René Descartes
* Pierre Gassendi
* Gottfried Leibniz

## 18th century

* George Berkeley
* Immanuel Kant
* David Hume

## 19th century

* Auguste Comte
* John Stuart Mill
* William Whewell
* George Henry Lewes
* William Stanley Jevons
* Ernst Mach
* Charles Sanders Peirce
* Edmund Husserl
* Frederich Engels

## 1900–1930

* Nicola Tesla
* Henri Poincaré
* Pierre Duhem
* Niels Bohr
* Albert Einstein
* Bertrand Russell
* Frank P. Ramsey
* Moritz Schlick
* John Dewey
* Alfred North Whitehead

## 1930–1960

* Alfred Ayer
* Mario Bunge
* Hans Reichenbach
* Georges Canguilhem
* Noam Chomsky
* Kenneth Craik
* Alexandre Koyré
* Sir Karl Popper
* Rudolf Carnap
* Michael Polanyi
* Otto Neurath
* Carl Gustav Hempel
* Paul Oppenheim
* Gaston Bachelard
* R. B. Braithwaite
* Werner Heisenberg
* Taketani Mitsuo
* Stephen Toulmin

## 1960–1980

* David Bloor
* Paul Feyerabend
* Mary Hesse
* Thomas Kuhn
* Imre Lakatos
* Ernest Nagel
* Hilary Putnam
* W.V. Quine
* Michael Ruse
* Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

## 1980–present

* Peter Achinstein
* David Albert
* Jeffrey A. Barrett
* Roy Bhaskar
* Maarten Boudry
* Richard Boyd
* Arturo Carsetti
* Nancy Cartwright
* David Castle
* Anjan Chakravartty
* Alan Chalmers
* Hasok Chang
* Patricia Churchland
* Paul Churchland
* Daniel Dennett
* John Dupré
* John Earman
* Bas van Fraassen
* Ronald Giere
* Peter Godfrey-Smith
* Rebecca Goldstein
* Adolf Grünbaum
* Susan Haack
* Ian Hacking
* Donna Haraway
* Sandra Harding
* Michał Heller
* Jaakko Hintikka
* Paul Hoyningen-Huene
* Philip Kitcher
* Ursula Klein
* Larry Laudan
* John Lennox
* Isaac Levi
* Peter Lipton
* Helen Longino
* Elisabeth Lloyd
* Tim Maudlin
* Ernan McMullin
* Peter Medawar
* Sandra Mitchell
* John E. Murdoch
* Nancey Murphy
* Basarab Nicolescu
* Massimo Pigliucci
* John Polkinghorne
* Stathis Psillos
* Alexander Rosenberg
* Oliver Sacks
* Wesley C. Salmon
* Eric Scerri
* Kristin Shrader-Frechette
* Lawrence Sklar
* Brian Skyrms
* Quentin Smith
* Elliott Sober
* Wolfgang Stegmüller
* Kim Sterelny
* David Stove
* Patrick Suppes
* Claudine Tiercelin
* Roberto Torretti
* Gerard Verschuuren
* John Worrall

* v
* t
* e

Philosophy of science

| Concepts|

* Analysis
* Analytic–synthetic distinction
* A priori and a posteriori
* Causality
* Commensurability
* Consilience
* Construct
* Creative synthesis
* Demarcation problem
* Empirical evidence
* Explanatory power
* Fact
* Falsifiability
* Feminist method
* Functional contextualism

* Ignoramus et ignorabimus
* Inductive reasoning
* Intertheoretic reduction
* Inquiry
* Nature
* Objectivity
* Observation
* Paradigm
* Problem of induction
* Scientific law
* Scientific method
* Scientific revolution
* Scientific theory
* Testability
* Theory choice
* Theory-ladenness
* Underdetermination
* Unity of science

|

Metatheory
of science|

* Coherentism
* Confirmation holism
* Constructive empiricism
* Constructive realism
* Constructivist epistemology
* Contextualism
* Conventionalism
* Deductive-nomological model
* Hypothetico-deductive model
* Inductionism
* Epistemological anarchism
* Evolutionism
* Fallibilism
* Foundationalism
* Instrumentalism
* Pragmatism
* Model-dependent realism
* Naturalism
* Physicalism
* Positivism / Reductionism / Determinism
* Rationalism / Empiricism
* Received view / Semantic view of theories
* Scientific realism / Anti-realism
* Scientific essentialism
* Scientific formalism
* Scientific skepticism
* Scientism
* Structuralism
* Uniformitarianism
* Vitalism

Philosophy of|

* Physics
* thermal and statistical
* Motion
* Chemistry
* Biology
* Environment
* Geography
* Social science
* Technology
* Engineering
* Artificial intelligence
* Computer science
* Information
* Mind
* Psychiatry
* Psychology
* Perception
* Space and time

Related topics|

* Alchemy
* Criticism of science
* Epistemology
* Faith and rationality
* History and philosophy of science
* History of science
* History of evolutionary thought
* Logic
* Metaphysics
* Pseudoscience
* Relationship between religion and science
* Rhetoric of science
* Science studies
* Sociology of scientific knowledge
* Sociology of scientific ignorance

Philosophers of science by era

| Ancient|

* Plato
* Aristotle
* Stoicism
* Epicureans

|

Medieval|

* Averroes
* Avicenna
* Roger Bacon
* William of Ockham
* Hugh of Saint Victor
* Dominicus Gundissalinus
* Robert Kilwardby

Early modern|

* Francis Bacon
* Thomas Hobbes
* René Descartes
* Galileo Galilei
* Pierre Gassendi
* Isaac Newton
* David Hume

Late modern|

* Immanuel Kant
* Friedrich Schelling
* William Whewell
* Auguste Comte
* John Stuart Mill
* Herbert Spencer
* Wilhelm Wundt
* Charles Sanders Peirce
* Wilhelm Windelband
* Henri Poincaré
* Pierre Duhem
* Rudolf Steiner
* Karl Pearson

Contemporary|

* Alfred North Whitehead
* Bertrand Russell
* Albert Einstein
* Otto Neurath
* C. D. Broad
* Michael Polanyi
* Hans Reichenbach
* Rudolf Carnap
* Karl Popper
* Carl Gustav Hempel
* W. V. O. Quine
* Thomas Kuhn
* Imre Lakatos
* Paul Feyerabend
* Jürgen Habermas
* Ian Hacking
* Bas van Fraassen
* Larry Laudan
* Daniel Dennett

* Category
*   *

This article does not cite any external source. HandWiki requires at least one external source. See citing external sources. Please help improve this article. Unsourced material may be removed in future.
Find sources: "List of philosophers of science" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

|

0.00

(0 votes)

Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of philosophers of science. Read more

|

Retrieved from "https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Biography:List_of_philosophers_of_science&oldid=252198"
*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template