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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Philosophy of science.

See also changes related to Philosophy of science, or pages that link to Philosophy of science or to this page or whose text contains "Philosophy of science".

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## Contents

* 1 Parent topics
* 2 Subtopics
* 2.1 Subfields
* 2.2 Philosophers of science
* 3 Other related topics
* 4 Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

## Parent topics[edit]

* Philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. [e]
* Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge based on non–trivial refutable concepts that can be verified or rejected on the base of observation and experimentation [e]

## Subtopics[edit]

* Abduction [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Confirmation [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Demarcation problem [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Experimental science [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Falsificationism [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Laws of nature [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Occam's razor [r]: Other things being equal—when several theories explain the same facts equally well, it is rational to prefer the most parsimonious of the theories. [e]
* Problem of Induction [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Reductionism [r]: The attempt to replace high-level explanations of phenomena by more basic explanations, often in terms of interacting subsystems or parts. [e]
* Scientific explanation [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Scientific method [r]: The concept of systematic inquiry based on hypotheses and their testing in light of empirical evidence. [e]
* Scientific realism [r]: Philosophical position that posits that the entities proposed by science are real (as opposed to an epistemic abstraction). [e]
* Theoretical science [r]: Add brief definition or description

### Subfields[edit]

* Philosophy of biology [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Philosophy of chemistry [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Philosophy of economics [r]: an account of the logical processes by which the intellectual discipline of economics has been constructed. [e]
* Philosophy of mathematics [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Philosophy of physics [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Philosophy of psychology [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Philosophy of social science [r]: Add brief definition or description

### Philosophers of science[edit]

* Aristotle [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Gaston Bachelard [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Francis Bacon [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Daniel C. Dennett [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Pierre Duhem [r]: Add brief definition or description
* John Dupré [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Paul Feyerabend [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Ian Hacking [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Thomas Hobbes [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Thomas Kuhn [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Imre Lakatos [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Larry Laudan [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Ernest Nagel [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Karl Popper [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Michael Ruse [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Elliott Sober [r]: Add brief definition or description
* David Stove [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Bas van Fraassen [r]: Add brief definition or description

## Other related topics[edit]

* Engineering [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Epistemology [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Evidence-based medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
* History of Science [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Inductivism [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Philosophy of Social Science [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Postmodernism and science [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Pseudoscience [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Science studies [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Science Wars [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Scientific method [r]: The concept of systematic inquiry based on hypotheses and their testing in light of empirical evidence. [e]
* Sociology of science [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Statistical significance [r]: Add brief definition or description
* Thought experiment [r]: Add brief definition or description

## Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)[edit]