Philosophy of Science

Conceptual foundations of scientific practice: what counts as a theory, what makes one theory better than another, and how observation relates to explanation. Includes instrumentalism, realism, paradigm theory, and debates about reduction, emergence, and the demarcation of science from non-science.

Entries (8)

• AI Research Is a Jumping Machine metaphor
• Balance of Nature paradigm
• Cargo Cult metaphor
• Goedel's Incompleteness mental-model
• Knowledge Is a Landscape metaphor
• Natural Selection mental-model
• Observer Effect mental-model
• Shut Up and Calculate paradigm