This thoroughly updated second edition guides readers through the central concepts and debates in the philosophy of science. Using concrete examples from the history of science, Kent W. Staley ...

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Explore general questions about the nature of science as well as specific foundational issues related to the individual sciences in this rigorous programme. With a deep and rigorous programme of ...

In the research field of the history and philosophy of physics, Professor Emeritus Allan Franklin studies the long-term impacts of physics discoveries on the scientific community and the greater ...

This course is designed to introduce students to fundamental questions in philosophy of science. We will cover both descriptive issues such as how scientific theories become "facts," and normative ...

The Doctor of Philosophy program offered by the Mallinson Institute for Science Education at Western Michigan University is for those with a science or science education background who wish to pursue ...

The Department also excels in philosophy of science, bioethics, and early modern philosophy. The Department is distinguished by its high-quality teaching, robust faculty-student interaction within a ...

An investigation of fact and theory, explanation and discovery, and of modern attempts to improve on naïve empiricist accounts of science. The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the ...

The Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science (CHPS) at the University of Colorado, Boulder seeks to bring together scholars from the sciences and the humanities in order to promote ...