Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Philosophy of Science: A Short Introduction
    Philosophy of Science: A Short Introduction
    Philosophy of Science: A Short Introduction
    Ebook53 pages1 hour

    Philosophy of Science: A Short Introduction

    By Domenic Marbaniang

    5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Philosophy of Science gives a brief introduction to the Epistemology (Scientific Knowledge Issues etc), Metaphysics (Reality Issues), and Axiology (Value Issues) of Science. It analyses the foundations of what scientific knowledge and theorization consists in and deals with issues related to the ultimate nature of reality and ethical issues involved in the practice of science.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDomenic Marbaniang
    Release dateJan 16, 2014
    ISBN9781311622907
    Philosophy of Science: A Short Introduction
    Author

    Domenic Marbaniang

    Domenic Marbaniang is Christian writer, musician, and minister.

    Read more from Domenic Marbaniang

    Related to Philosophy of Science

    Related ebooks

    Science & Mathematics For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Yes, Determinists, There Is Free Will

      May 16, 2019

      It’s not just in politics where otherwise smart people consistently talk past one another. People debating whether humans have free will also have this tendency. Neuroscientist and free-will skeptic Sam Harris has dueled philosopher and free-will def

      10 min read

    • Article

      The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis

      Aug 1, 2019

      Here are three versions of the same story: 1. In the fall of 1996, Sally Clark, an English solicitor in Manchester, gave birth to an apparently healthy baby boy who died suddenly when he was 11 weeks old. She was still recovering from the traumatic i

      12 min read

    • Article

      Herbert Spencer’s Principle of Equal Freedom: Is It Well Grounded?

      Sep 1, 2020

      During the mid-to late nineteenth century, Herbert Spencer was the most widely read philosopher in the world. A large part of his appeal was owing to his ambition of providing a complete and comprehensive account of human reality based on scientific

      38 min read

    • Article

      This Essentially Meaningless Conflict

      Sep 22, 2017

      MARILYNNE ROBINSON’S accomplishments are impressive by any standard: she has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the National Humanities Medal, among other honors. But perhaps a better measure o

      8 min read

    • Article

      Can Science Hold All The Answers?

      Oct 27, 2022

      MEASURABILITY, REPRODUCIBILITY, independent verification, accurate predictions — these are the criteria that have elevated scientific experimentation to the arbiter of truth in modern society. Besides the long and impressive history of accomplishment

      6 min read

    • Article

      We Have to Talk About Doubt: How to tell the difference between scientific and conspiratorial skepticism.

      Sep 1, 2021

      What is the role of reasonable doubt in advancing science? And how should we contrast scientific doubt with the cavilling doubt of conspiracy theories which play little part in advancing understanding? Over the last year we have seen the scientific m

      5 min read

    • Article

      What Is Pseudoscience?

      May 8, 2017

      What Is Pseudoscience?
      3 min read

    • Article

      Electrons May Very Well Be Conscious

      Dec 30, 2020

      Happy Holidays. This week we are reprinting our top stories of 2020. This article first appeared online in our Facts So Romantic blog in May, 2020. In May, the cover of New Scientist ran the headline, “Is the Universe Conscious?” Mathematician and ph

      5 min read

    • Article

      Why Science Needs Metaphysics: Science can’t tell us whether science explains everything.

      Oct 1, 2015

      Technology cannot keep pace with theoretical predictions about subatomic reality coming from physics. The same applies to our ability to observe the far reaches of the universe. Theory outstrips data and can become more extravagant with the claims it

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Trouble With Scientists: How one psychologist is tackling human biases in science.

      May 14, 2015

      Sometimes it seems surprising that science functions at all. In 2005, medical science was shaken by a paper with the provocative title “Why most published research findings are false.”1 Written by John Ioannidis, a professor of medicine at Stanford U

      12 min read

    • Article

      The Trouble With Scientists

      Nov 2, 2017

      Sometimes it seems surprising that science functions at all. In 2005, medical science was shaken by a paper with the provocative title “Why most published research findings are false.”1 Written by John Ioannidis, a professor of medicine at Stanford U

      12 min read

    • Article

      A Clash of Perspectives on Panpsychism

      Feb 27, 2020

      In recent years the concept of panpsychism, “which entertains the possibility that all matter is imbued with consciousness,” writes Annaka Harris, has been firing up cognitive scientists who plumb the nature of consciousness. Some entertain the possi

      7 min read

    • Article

      A Perception Of Something

      Nov 7, 2020

      A Perception Of Something
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Science of Early Buddhism

      Feb 6, 2018

      The Science of Early Buddhism
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Holiness in Reality

      Sep 1, 2023

      For Julian Huxley, science was spiritual. The biologist, brother of the novelist Aldous Huxley and grandson of “Darwin’s Bulldog” Thomas Henry Huxley, thought evolutionary ideas hinted at humanity’s destiny: to safeguard the future of life on Earth a

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Worth of Wild Ideas

      Sep 27, 2023

      Earlier this month, the consciousness science community erupted into chaos. An open letter, signed by 124 researchers—some specializing in consciousness and others not—made the provocative claim that one of the most widely discussed theories in the f

      7 min read

    • Article

      Certainly Not!: Good science requires cultivating doubt and finding pleasure in mystery.

      Jun 27, 2013

      Physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi grew up in an immigrant family in New York City in the early 20th century. When he came home from school his mother would not ask him what he learned that day, as his friends’ mothers did. She would ask him, “Did you ask a

      8 min read

    • Article

      Why Science Should Stay Clear of Metaphysics: Meet the philosopher who revived anti-realism.

      Sep 8, 2016

      Philosophers of science are not known for agreeing with each other—contrariness is part of the job description. But for thousands of years, from Aristotle to Thomas Kuhn, those who study what science is have roughly categorized themselves into two ba

      11 min read

    • Article

      Finding the Neural Correlates of Consciousness Is Still a Good Bet

      Jul 5, 2023

      In 1870, Alfred Russell Wallace wagered £500—a huge sum in those days—that he could prove the flat-Earther John Hampden wrong. Wallace duly did so, but the aggrieved Hampden never paid up. Since then, a lively history of scientific wagers has ensued

      5 min read

    • Article

      Mind Or Brain?

      Jan 23, 2024

      THAT LITTLE VOICE that’s narrating your experience as you read this—is it in your mind or in your brain? At first glance, this might seem like a stupid semantic question. But it cuts to the heart of a weighty dilemma for modern science that also has

      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Philosophy of Science

    5/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Philosophy of Science - Domenic Marbaniang

      PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

      A Short Introduction

      Copyright 2007, 2011, 2014 Domenic Marbaniang

      Published by Domenic Marbaniang at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      EPISTEMOLOGY OF SCIENCE

      SCIENTIFIC METAPHYSICS

      AXIOLOGY OF SCIENCE

      CONCLUSION

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      INTRODUCTION

      Philosophy of science is a study of the general nature of scientific practice, explanations, theories, and the relation of scientific knowledge to philosophical issues.[1]  It is that branch of philosophy that is centered on a critical examination of the sciences: their methods and their results.[2]

      While philosophy is concerned with ultimate and fundamental issues, science is concerned with the identification and collection of information, plus the essential methods or procedures by which information is gained.[3] Philosophy of science is a study of the nature and implications of what constitutes the activity and findings of science.

      For purposes of this introductory guide, the issues of philosophy of science may be seen as divisible into three subject-groups: the epistemology of science, scientific metaphysics, and axiology of science.

      Epistemology of science concerns the study of the nature and scope of scientific methodology and scientific knowledge. This branch of the philosophy of science studies the justifiability of the methods which science employs in scientific research. It also studies the nature of the scientific knowledge as reflected in scientific theories, laws, and explanations.

      Scientific metaphysics concerns the study of the implications and relation of scientific results to the metaphysical problem of the nature of reality. In the process, it also explores the metaphysical presuppositions of certain cosmological and ontological theories of science like the theories of evolution, of relativity, and of quantum science.

      Axiology of science explores the relationship between scientific knowledge and human values. Issues like human rights, equality, justice, good and evil, and politics have inseparable connections with cosmological, anthropological, and theological theories. Axiology of science studies the theories of values with respect to their relation to such theories.

      In the following pages, a survey of the various branches of the philosophy of science will be given.

      1. EPISTEMOLOGY OF SCIENCE

      Epistemology of science is that branch of philosophy of science that concerns the study of the nature and scope of scientific methodology, scientific knowledge, and scientific language.

      1.1. Scientific Methodology

      It is evident that science has existed since time immemorial. History bears record of great scientific accomplishments that humans have achieved in past three millenia. However, the modern generation has witnessed a greater rapidity of scientific

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1