Index of philosophy of science articles explained

An index list of articles about the philosophy of science.

Index list

• A-series and B-series
• A New Model of the Universe
• Abductive reasoning
• Abner Shimony
• Abstinence
• Adolf Grünbaum
• Alan Turing
• Albert Einstein
• Alexandre Koyré
• Alfred Jules Ayer
• Alfred North Whitehead
• Alfred Wilm
• Alison Wylie
• Altruism
• André-Marie Ampère
• Andreas Speiser
• Androcentrism
• Anthropic principle
• Anti-Supernaturalism
• Antiscience
• Anton Kržan
• Approximation
• Archimedes
• Aristotelian physics
• Arthur Fine
• Arthur Pap
• Artificial consciousness
• Artificial intelligence
• Asa Gray
• Atomism
• Augustine Eriugena
• Avicenna
• Barry Loewer
• Bas van Fraassen
• Bayesian probability
• Behaviorism
• Berlin Circle
• Bernard d'Espagnat
• Bertrand Russell
• Biological determinism
• Biological imperative
• Blockhead (thought experiment)
• Bohr–Einstein debates
• Bonifaty Kedrov
• Boris Hessen
• C. D. Broad
• Cargo cult science
• Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
• Carl Gustav Hempel
• Carl Linnaeus
• Carlos Castrodeza
• Ramsey sentence
• Causality
• Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds
• Christopher Potter (author)
• Classical mechanics
• Classification of the sciences (Peirce)
• Claus Emmeche
• Closed circle
• Cognitive science
• Commensurability (philosophy of science)
• Computational humor
• Computer ethics
• Confirmation holism
• Conjecture
• Conjectures and Refutations
• Connectionism
• Consciousness
• Conservation biology
• Constantin Noica
• Construct (philosophy of science)
• Constructive empiricism
• Constructive realism
• Contextual empiricism
• Conventionalism
• Copernican Revolution (metaphor)

• Critical realism
• Daniel Chandler
• Data system
• David Hilbert
• David Hull (philosopher)
• David N. Stamos
• David Papineau
• David Stenhouse
• Dawkins vs. Gould
• Decision theory
• Deductive-nomological model
• Demarcation problem
• Democratic Rationalization
• Determinism
• Deterministic system (philosophy)
• Dominique Lecourt
• Don Ihde
• Ecology
• Edward Grant
• Edward Jones-Imhotep
• Edward S. Reed
• Elisabeth Lloyd
• Elliott Sober
• Emergence
• Émile Meyerson
• Empirical method
• Empirical relationship
• Empirical research
• Empiricism
• Entity realism
• Epicurus
• Epistemological anarchism
• Epistemological rupture
• Epistemology
• Eric Higgs
• Ernest Nagel
• Ernst Mach
• Ernst W. Mayr
• Ervin László
• Erwin Schrödinger
• Ethics of artificial intelligence
• Ethics of technology
• Ethics of terraforming
• Eugenics
• Evelyn Fox Keller
• Evolution
• Evolutionary epistemology

• Evolutionary psychology
• Experiment
• Experimenter's bias
• Explanation
• Explanatory gap
• Explanatory power
• Eyewitness testimony
• Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
• Faith, Science and Understanding
• Falsifiability
• Faraday Institute for Science and Religion
• Fatalism
• Federico Cesi
• Francis Bacon
• Frank P. Ramsey
• Frederick Suppe
• Friedrich Kambartel
• Friedrich von Hayek
• Friedrich Waismann
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
• Fringe science
• Fritjof Capra
• Functional contextualism
• Galileo Galilei
• Game theory
• Gaston Bachelard
• Genidentity
• Geoffrey Hellman
• Geohumoral theory
• Gerald Holton
• Gerard Verschuuren
• Gerd Buchdahl
• God of the gaps
• Great chain of being
• Greedy reductionism
• Gunther Stent
• Gustav Bergmann
• Hans Hahn
• Hans Reichenbach
• Harvey Brown (philosopher)
• Helen Longino
• Henri Poincaré
• Henry Margenau
• Henry Moyes
• Herbert Feigl
• Herbert Spencer
• Heroic theory of invention and scientific development
• Hilary Putnam
• History and philosophy of science
• History of evolutionary thought
• History of the Church–Turing thesis
• Horror vacui (physics)
• Hossein Nasr
• Hugh Everett III
• Hugo Dingler
• Ian Hacking
• Ignoramus et ignorabimus
• Ilkka Niiniluoto
• Immunology
• Implications of nanotechnology
• Imre Lakatos
• Indeterminacy (philosophy)
• Individual
• Inductive reasoning
• Inductivism
• Infinite regress

• Information ethics
• Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
• Instrumentalism
• Intentionality
• Internalism and externalism
• International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility
• Internet ethics
• Introspection
• Ionian Enlightenment
• Irreversibility
• Is logic empirical?
• Isaac Newton
• Jakob Friedrich Fries
• James G. Lennox
• James Robert Brown
• Jean Cavaillès
• Jerome Ravetz
• Jerzy Giedymin
• Jesús Mosterín
• Joachim Jungius
• John Beatty (philosopher)
• John Bulwer
• John Earman
• John L. Pollock
• John Lennox
• John Searle
• John von Neumann
• John Weckert
• John Worrall (philosopher)
• Jordi Pigem
• Joseph Henry Woodger
• Jules Vuillemin
• Jürgen Mittelstraß
• Karl Jaspers
• Karl Popper
• Kinetic theory of gases
• Kurt Riezler
• Kyle Stanford
• Larry Laudan
• Leonardo Moledo
• Lindley Darden
• List of philosophers of science
• Logical positivism
• Louis Rougier
• Luddite
• Ludwik Fleck
• Mariano Artigas
• Mario Bunge
• Marx W. Wartofsky
• Mary Hesse
• Mary Tiles
• Matteo Campani-Alimenis
• Mauricio Suarez
• Max Bense
• Max Black
• Maxwell's demon
• Measurement in quantum mechanics
• Mechanism (philosophy)
• Mediocrity principle
• Meera Nanda
• Methodological individualism
• Michael Oakeshott
• Michael Ruse
• Michael Scriven
• Michel Bitbol
• Miura Baien
• Models of scientific inquiry
• Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
• Molecular biology
• Molyneux's Problem
• Moravec's paradox
• Moritz Schlick
• Multiple discovery
• Myth of Progress
• Naïve empiricism
• Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)
• Natural law
• Natural philosophy
• Natural selection
• Nature (philosophy)
• Neo-Luddism
• Neuroethics
• Neuroscience
• Neven Sesardic
• Newton's flaming laser sword
• Newtonianism
• Niels Bohr
• Noam Chomsky
• Norman Swartz
• Norwood Russell Hanson
• Not even wrong
• Novum Organum
• Objectivity (science)
• Observation
• Occam's razor

• Operational definition
• Operationalization
• Otto Neurath
• Oxford Calculators
• Paradigm
• Paradigm shift
• Parsimony
• Particle physics
• Paul Feyerabend
• Paul Häberlin
• Perception
• Percy Williams Bridgman
• Peripatetic axiom
• Pessimistic induction
• Peter Achinstein

• Phenomenalism
• Philip Kitcher
• Philip Mirowski
• Philipp Frank
• Phillip H. Wiebe
• Philosophers of science
• Philosophical interpretation of classical physics
• Philosophy of artificial intelligence
• Philosophy of biology
• Philosophy of chemistry
• Philosophy of computer science
• Philosophy of economics
• Philosophy of engineering
• Philosophy of information
• Philosophy of mathematics
• Philosophy of physics
• Philosophy of psychology
• Philosophy of science
• Philosophy of Science Association
• Philosophy of social science
• Philosophy of space and time
• Philosophy of statistics
• Philosophy of technology
• Philosophy of thermal and statistical physics
• Physical law
• Physicalism
• Physics envy
• Pierre Duhem
• Pierre Gassendi
• Popper's experiment
• Popper and After
• Positivism
• Post-positivist
• Pragmatism
• Prediction
• Principle of uniformity
• Probability
• Problem of induction
• Pseudoscience
• Psychological nominalism
• Psychologism
• Ptolemy
• Quantity
• Quantum field theory
• Quantum indeterminacy
• Quantum logic
• Quantum mechanics
• R. B. Braithwaite
• Raimo Tuomela
• Ramsey–Lewis method
• Rational reconstruction
• Reasonable doubt
• Received view of theories
• Reductionism
• Regulation of science
• Relationship between religion and science
• Religious interpretations of the Big Bang theory
• René Descartes
• Retrocausality
• Richard Boyd
• Richard Swinburne
• Robert Grosseteste
• Robert Kilwardby
• Roberto Refinetti

• Roboethics
• Roger Bacon
• Roger Penrose
• Rose Rand
• Rudolf Carnap
• Sandra Mitchell
• Science
• Science and Christian Belief
• Scientific Communism
• Scientific essentialism
• Scientific law
• Scientific misconduct
• Scientific modelling
• Scientific progress
• Scientific realism
• Scientific revolution
• Scientific theory
• Scientism
• Scientistic materialism
• Scientists for Global Responsibility
• Semantic view of theories
• Sense data
• Sherrilyn Roush
• Social constructionism
• Space
• Spacetime
• Species
• Stephen Mulhall
• Stephen Toulmin
• Steve Fuller (sociologist)
• Structuralism (philosophy of science)
• Supervenience
• Susan Oyama
• Taketani Mitsuo
• Technocriticism
• Technological determinism
• Technological Somnambulism
• Technorealism
• Temporal finitism
• The Incoherence of the Philosophers
• The Logic of Scientific Discovery
• The Relativity of Wrong
• The Selfish Genius
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• The Two Cultures
• The Value of Science
• Theoretical definition
• Theory
• Theory choice
• Thomas Samuel Kuhn
• Thucydides
• Time
• Uncertainty principle
• Unified Science
• Uniformitarianism
• Unity of science
• Universe
• Varadaraja V. Raman
• Verificationism
• Verisimilitude
• Victor Kraft
• Victoria Institute
• Vienna Circle
• Voodoo science
• Werner Heisenberg
• Wesley C. Salmon
• What Is This Thing Called Science?
• Whitny Braun
• Wilhelm Windelband
• Wilhelm Wundt
• Willard Van Orman Quine
• Willem B. Drees
• William Irwin Thompson
• William Newton-Smith
• William W. Tait
• William Whewell
• Wolfgang Smith
• Wolfgang Stegmüller
• Wronger than wrong
• Xu Liangying
• Yoichiro Murakami
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

See also

• List of philosophers of science