Mario Bunge, Systematic Philosophy and Science Education: An Introduction

Philosophy of Science : An Introduction

Philosophy of Science: Introduction

The borderlands between science and philosophy: an introduction.

Science and philosophy have a very long history, dating back at least to the 16th and 17th centuries, when the first scientist-philosophers, such as Bacon, Galilei, and Newton, were beginning the process of turning natural philosophy into science. Contemporary relationships between the two fields are still to some extent marked by the distrust that maintains the divide between the so-called "tw...

Fuzzy philosophy of science and education

Scientific consequences are dependent on premisses that are logical propositions of the phenomena concerned. Propositions are verbal and linguistic statements, and at the initial philosophical thinking stage they all include vaguneness and imprecision. As more scientific evidence becomes available either rationally or empirically proposition validity degree increases at the cost of vagueness. I...

Philosophy of science and physiology education.

Since the mid-1960s, philosophy of science [particularly that derived from Kuhn's work (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962)] has become an informal part of the education of scientists worldwide, including physiologists. However, recent postmodernist developments have enraged a number of scientists, who would like to sever any ties with philosophy...