Science

Science#

History & Philosophy

Resources#

[H] UPitt’s Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Texts#

1997 Bloor, David. “Remember the Strong Program?”.

1976 [W] Chalmers, Alan. What Is This Thing Called Science?. University of Queensland Press.

1906 Duhem, Pierre. The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory. Princeton University Press.

1969 Duhem, Pierre. To Save the Phenomena, an Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo. University of Chicago Press.

1975 Feyerabend, Paul. “How to Defend Society Against Science”.

2003 Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. University of Chicago Press.

1973 Hempel, Carl. “Rudolf Carnap, Logical Empiricist”. Synthese. JSTOR.

1962 [W] Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 2nd Ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1970, 2nd edition, with postscript).

1976 [W] Lakatos, Imre. Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery. Cambridge University Press.

1970 Lakatos, Imre. editor with A. Musgrave: Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1987 [W] Latour, Bruno. Science in Action. Harvard University Press.

1963 Popper, Karl. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. London: Routledge.

1959 [W] Popper, Karl. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. translation by the author of Logik der Forschung (1935). London: Hutchinson. Republished 2002, London & New York: Routledge Classics.

Figures#

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1910-1989 (78) Ayer, A. J.

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1561-1626 (65) Bacon, Francis

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1942----- (83) Bloor, David

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1891-1970 (79) Carnap, Rudolf

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1874-1945 (70) Cassirer, Ernst

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1939----- (86) Chalmers, Alan

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1798-1857 (59) Comte, Auguste

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1861-1916 (55) Duhem, Pierre

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1879-1955 (76) Einstein, Albert

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1924-1994 (70) Feyerabend, Paul

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1918-1988 (69) Feynman, Richard

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1965----- (60) Godfrey-Smith, Peter

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1936-2023 (87) Hacking, Ian

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1905-1997 (92) Hempel, Carl

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1947----- (79) Kitcher, Philip

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1922-1996 (73) Kuhn, Thomas

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1922-1974 (51) Lakatos, Imre

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1947-2022 (75) Latour, Bruno

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1838-1916 (78) Mach, Ernst

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1854-1912 (58) Poincaré, Henri

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1902-1994 (92) Popper, Karl

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1926-2016 (89) Putnam, Hilary

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1908-2000 (92) Quine, Willard Van Orman

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1891-1953 (61) Reichenbach, Hans

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1882-1936 (54) Schlick, Moritz

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1941----- (85) Van Fraassen, Bas

Terms#

  • [ SEP ] Confirmation

  • [ SEP ] Einstein’s Philosophy of Science [ notes ]

  • [ SEP ] Laws of Nature

  • [ SEP ] Scientific Explanation

  • [ SEP ] Scientific Method

  • [ SEP ] Scientific Observation

  • [ SEP ] Scientific Progress

  • [ SEP ] Scientific Realism

  • [ SEP ] Scientific Theory

  • [ SEP ] Vienna Circle

  • [ w ] Abduction

  • [ w ] Baconian Method

  • [ w ] Berlin Circle

  • [ w ] Commensurability

  • [ w ] Deductive-Nomological Model

  • [ w ] Demarcation Problem

  • [ w ] Duhem-Quine Thesis

  • [ w ] Experiment

  • [ w ] Falsifiability

  • [ w ] History and Philosophy of Science

  • [ w ] History of Science

  • [ w ] History of Science and Technology

  • [ w ] Hypothesis

  • [ w ] Inductivism

  • [ w ] Logical Empiricism

  • [ w ] Logical Positivism

  • [ w ] Normal Science

  • [ w ] Paradigm

  • [ w ] Paradigm Shift

  • [ w ] Philosophy of Science

  • [ w ] Positivism

  • [ w ] Problem of Induction

  • [ w ] Reductionism

  • [ w ] Science

  • [ w ] Scientific Community

  • [ w ] Scientific Explanation

  • [ w ] Scientific Method

  • [ w ] Scientific Method, history

  • [ w ] Scientific Revolution

  • [ w ] Scientific Theory

  • [ w ] Testability

  • [ w ] Theory of Everything

  • [ w ] Tree of Knowledge

  • [ w ] Unity of Science

  • [ w ] Verificationism

  • [ w ] Vienna Circle

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