Philosophy of Science: Baconian and Cartesian Approaches
Overview
The Renaissance and Scientific Revolution encompassed the transformation of art, science, medicine, and philosophy, as well as the soc...
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Scientific Ethics
The term scientific ethics may refer to the ethics of doing science (Is one free to inject unwilling subjects with a pathogen so as to gain valuable scientific insights? or What role...
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Common Cause Principle
No correlation without causation. This is the most compact formulation of Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle (RCCP). More explicitly RCCP is the claim that if two event...
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Philosophy of Medicine
The subject matter unique to philosophy of medicine—as opposed to those issues that are best seen under the heading of philosophy of biology—is clinical medicine a...
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Philosophy of Science, History Of
Philosophy of science emerged as a distinctive part of philosophy in the twentieth century. Its defining moment was the meeting (and clash) of two courses of events: ...
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Philosophy of Science, Problems Of
The scope of the philosophy of science is sufficiently broad to encompass, at one extreme, conceptual problems so intimately connected with science itself that their...
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Science and Pseudoscience
Since the rise of modern science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, attempts to adjudicate the difference between science and pseudoscience have always been more tha...
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Verifiability Principle [addendum]
The doctrines associated with the slogan that meaning is the mode of verification continued to develop in the last four decades of the twentieth century. While the e...
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Philosophy of Science: Baconian and Cartesian Approaches
Scientific Ethics
Common Cause Principle