Kantian turn in the contemporary philosophy of science

A Kantian Legacy in History and Philosophy of Science [ 1 ]

The Historical Turn in the Philosophy of Science

The history of science has a long history. Aristotle’s scientific works are prefaced by historical account of those sciences, and this model persisted through medieval times until and including the rise of modern science in the era of the scientific revolution. Joseph Priestley, for example, entitled two of his books of pioneering research The History and Present State of Electricity and The Hi...

Contemporary Philosophy of Science and Neoinstitutional Thought

Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Biology : A Historical Review

The philosophy of biology has existed as a distinct sub-discipline within the philosophy of science for about thirty years. The rapid growth of the field has mirrored that of the biological sciences in the same period. Today the discipline is well represented in the leading journals in philosophy of science, as well as in several specialist journals. There have been two generations of textbooks...

Ernst Cassirer's Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Geometry