Philosophy of Science Task Force of WikiProject Philosophy

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Scope

The scope of the Philosophy of science task force is articles about Philosophy of science, concepts in philosophy of science, history of philosophy of science, and biographical articles about philosophers of science. Our goal is to find and identify all the substantive topics in Philosophy of science and expand the Wikipedia presence of those topics. The project is a descendant of WikiProject Philosophy.

Category tree

[−] Philosophy of science [+] Anti-psychiatry [+] Causality [+] Empiricism [+] History of science [+] Inductive reasoning [+] Philosophy of science literature [+] Logical positivism [+] Metatheory of science [+] Ontology [+] Philosophers of science [+] Philosophy of biology [+] Philosophy of physics [+] Philosophy of science events [+] Philosophy of technology [+] Philosophy of time [+] Positivism [+] Roman Catholicism and science [+] Scientific revolution [+] Scientific theories [+] Skepticism [+] Sociology of scientific knowledge [+] Systems theory [+] Types of scientific fallacy [+] Validity (statistics) [+] Vienna Circle [+] Vitalism

Philosophy of science task force assessment statistics Philosophy of science articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 3 3 A 1 1 GA 1 1 2 B 1 13 14 5 33 C 8 11 4 2 25 Start 1 13 41 32 33 120 Stub 4 24 50 32 110 List 1 1 Assessed 2 43 91 92 67 295 Unassessed 4 31 35 Total 2 43 91 96 98 330 worklist • log • category

Participants

Philosophy of science task force

• 3fingeredPete (talk · contribs)
• Alexander Gieg (talk · contribs)
• Gregbard (talk · contribs)
• JEN9841 (talk · contribs)
• Moritheil (talk · contribs)
• Platonic Guardian (talk · contribs)
• Sagan666 (talk · contribs)

Recognized content

Featured articles

• Galileo Galilei

Good articles

• Universe

Did You Know (DYK)s

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Former good articles

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team selections

• Galileo Galilei

Templates

v • d • e Philosophy of science Related Epistemology · History and philosophy of science · History of science · History of evolutionary thought · Philosophy of biology · Philosophy of chemistry · Philosophy of physics · Philosophy of mind · Philosophy of artificial intelligence · Philosophy of information · Philosophy of perception · Philosophy of space and time · Philosophy of thermal and statistical physics · Philosophy of social sciences · Philosophy of environment · Philosophy of psychology · Philosophy of technology · Philosophy of computer science · Pseudoscience · Relationship between religion and science · Rhetoric of science · Sociology of scientific knowledge Concepts Analysis • Analytic-synthetic distinction • A priori and a posteriori • Artificial intelligence • Causality • Commensurability • Construct • Demarcation problem • Explanatory power • Fact • Falsifiability • Ignoramus et ignorabimus • Inductive reasoning • Ingenuity • Inquiry • Models of scientific inquiry • Nature • Objectivity • Observation • Paradigm • Problem of induction • Scientific explanation • Scientific law • Scientific method • Scientific revolution • Scientific theory • Testability • Theory choice • Metatheory of science Confirmation holism • Coherentism • Contextualism • Conventionalism • Deductive-nomological model • Determinism · Empiricism · Fallibilism · Foundationalism · Hypothetico-deductive model • Infinitism · Instrumentalism · Positivism • Pragmatism • Rationalism • Received view of theories • Reductionism • Semantic view of theories • Scientific realism • Scientism · Scientific anti-realism · Skepticism • Uniformitarianism • Vitalism Philosophers Albert Einstein • Alfred North Whitehead • Aristotle • Auguste Comte • Averroes • Berlin Circle • Carl Gustav Hempel • C. D. Broad • Charles Sanders Peirce • Dominicus Gundissalinus • Daniel Dennett • Epicurians • Francis Bacon • Friedrich Schelling • Galileo Galilei • Henri Poincaré • Herbert Spencer • Hugh of Saint Victor • Immanuel Kant • Imre Lakatos • Isaac Newton • John Dewey • John Stuart Mill • Jürgen Habermas • Karl Pearson • Karl Popper • Karl Theodor Jaspers • Otto Neurath • Paul Haeberlin • Paul Karl Feyerabend • Pierre Duhem • Pierre Gassendi • Plato • R.B. Braithwaite • René Descartes • Robert Kilwardby • Roger Bacon • Rudolf Carnap • Stephen Toulmin • Stoics • Thomas Hobbes • Thomas Samuel Kuhn • Vienna Circle • W.V.O. Quine • Wilhelm Windelband • Wilhelm Wundt • William of Ockham • William Whewell • more... Portal · Category · Task Force · Discussion · Changes

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