philosopher of science
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philosopher
noun[C]
uk/fɪˈlɒs.ə.fər/us/fɪˈlɑː.sə.fɚ/
someone who studies or writes about the meaning ...
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science
noun
uk/ˈsaɪ.əns/us/ˈsaɪ.əns/
(knowledge from) the careful study of the structure and behaviour of the physical world, especially by watching, measuring, and doing experiments, and the development of theories to describe the results of ...
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To philosophers of science and, in particular, of mathematics?
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Beginning in the sixteenth century, it lasted well into our own time; and it is poorly understood, in its underlying rationale, by historians of medicine and philosophers of science alike.
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This is not only an issue for philosophers of science, but a major issue if we want to apply our theories in human-computer interaction and education.
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But by analysing scientific journals, philosophers of science came to discover that they cannot find any papers that either explicitly or implicitly state what would falsify the proposed theories.
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He is yet to be generally recognized as an importantphilosopherofscienceand an epistemologist of consequence.
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He is sometimes regarded as the firstphilosopherofsciencein the modern sense of the term.
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He was also aphilosopherofscienceand a popularizer of science.
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Once upon a time, philosophers of science thought it was their business to provide a theory of scientific theories.
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In their focus on examining the warrant for fundamental theories, philosophers of science have almost completely neglected the processes involved in applying such theories.
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Also in evidence, but numerically less strong, were historians and philosophers of science, who tended to address a cross-section of the sciences.
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However, this discovery, as the related rediscovery of rhetoric in general, has been somewhat delayed in comparison with analogous rediscoveries by philosophers of science.
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As a matter of fact, the theory dependence of low-level scientific claims had already been noticed by pre-positivist philosophers of science.
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Although he wrote mostly on medical topics there is some suggestion that he was not a physician but aphilosopherofscience; he also indulged in astrology and meteorology.
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Until recently, however, few philosophers of science have looked beyond theory and data, to what actually happens in the laboratory.
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Moreover, philosophers of science have shown that the import of theoretical terms cannot be reduced to observational meanings without the loss of significant meaning.
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I leave it to philosophers of science to evaluate the thesis that the data of modern science point toward the need for teleological explanation.
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Different epistemic styles exist, then, as historians and philosophers of science have finally begun to recognize.
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However, forceful arguments against the determinacy of justification have been put forward by both legal theorists and philosophers of science.
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Of course, not all historians and philosophers of science can actively engage in the debates concerning early mathematics.
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