Nature Research Intelligence Topics Topic summaries Philosophy and Religious Studies Philosophy Philosophy of Science Philosophy of science critically examines the fundamental nature, methods, and ...

A few years ago, while I was pursuing my Ph.D. at the University of Sydney, the philosopher Liam Kofi Bright wrote a ...

Philosophy of science at its best seems to me a pleasing gloss on the history and discoveries of science.” Here Weinberg makes the all-too common mistake of thinking of philosophy as of an activity ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper argues that we philosophers of science have before us an important new task that we urgently need to take up. It is to convince the ...

Philosophy of science interrogates the nature, boundaries and assumptions of scientific inquiry. It examines how theories are formulated, tested and ultimately accepted or revised, and explores the ...