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Parent topics
- 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]
- Philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. [e]
- Reality [r]: Various concepts in philosophy and science presenting diverse views of what categories of entities, if any, do or do not qualify as existing absolutely, self-sufficiently and objectively irrespective of human presence. [e]
- Model-dependent realism [r]: A philosophical position that all we can know about reality consists of networks of world pictures that explain observations by connecting them by rules to concepts defined in models. [e]
Subtopics
- Discourse on Method [r]: Philosophical and mathematical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637, best known as the source of the famous quotation 'Je pense, donc je suis' ('I think, therefore I am'). [e]
- History of scientific method [r]: Development and elaboration of rules for scientific reasoning and investigation. [e]
- Scientific misconduct [r]: Violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behaviour in professional scientific research. [e]
- Pseudoscience [r]: Any theory, or system of theories, that is deceptively claimed to be scientific. [e]
- Reductionism [r]: The attempt to replace high-level explanations of phenomena by more basic explanations, often in terms of interacting subsystems or parts. [e]
Philosophers
- Aristotle [r]: (384-322 BCE) Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, and one of the most influential figures in the western world between 350 BCE and the sixteenth century. [e]
- Galileo Galilei [r]: (1564-1642) Italian scientist, a pioneer in combining mathematical theory with systematic experiment in science, who came into conflict with the Church. [e]
- René Descartes [r]: French 17th-century philosopher, mathematician and scientist, author of the Discourse on Method. [e]
- Francis Bacon [r]: (1561-1626) English Renaissance essayist and philosopher who argued that science should proceed empirically, by induction. [e]
- Roger Bacon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Hume [r]: (1711—1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. [e]
Twentieth Century Philosophers
- Thomas Kuhn [r]: (1921–1996) American philosopher who revolutionized philosophy of science by describing science as being driven by paradigm-defining revolutions rather than steady progress. [e]
- Karl Popper [r]: (1902–1994) One of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century. [e]
- Paul Feyerabend [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Imre Lakatos [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hypothesis [r]: A causal relationship thought possible. [e]
- Theory [r]: An abstract description of causal relationships. [e]
- Proof [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Laboratory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Experiment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Simulation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Data [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Evidence [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Evidence-based medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Evidence-based decision-making [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Academic journal [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scientific journal [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Research peer review [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Science 2.0 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Knowledge [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fact [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Belief [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Truth [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Axiom [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Observation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Deduction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Induction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paradigm [r]: Add brief definition or description
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