Category:Metatheory of science

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People	Adolf Grünbaum Albert Einstein Alfred North Whitehead Aristotle Auguste Comte Averroes Berlin Circle Bertrand Russell Carl Gustav Hempel C. D. Broad Charles Sanders Peirce Dominicus Gundissalinus Daniel Dennett Epicurians Francis Bacon Friedrich Schelling Galileo Galilei Henri Poincaré Herbert Spencer Hugh of Saint Victor Immanuel Kant Imre Lakatos Isaac Newton John Dewey John Stuart Mill Jürgen Habermas Karl Pearson Karl Popper Karl Theodor Jaspers Larry Laudan Michael Polanyi Otto Neurath Paul Häberlin Paul Feyerabend Pierre Duhem Pierre Gassendi Plato R. B. Braithwaite René Descartes Robert Kilwardby Roger Bacon Rudolf Carnap Stephen Toulmin Stoicism Thomas Hobbes Thomas Samuel Kuhn Vienna Circle W.V.O. Quine Wilhelm Windelband Wilhelm Wundt William of Ockham William Whewell more...

Concepts	Analysis Analytic–synthetic distinction A priori and a posteriori Artificial intelligence Causality Commensurability Construct Demarcation problem Empirical evidence Explanatory power Explanandum Fact Falsifiability Ignoramus et ignorabimus Inductive reasoning Ingenuity Inquiry Models of scientific inquiry Nature Objectivity Observation Paradigm Problem of induction Scientific law Scientific method Scientific revolution Scientific theory Testability Theory choice Theory‐ladenness Underdetermination

Metatheory	Confirmation holism Coherentism Contextualism Conventionalism Deductive-nomological model Determinism Empiricism Fallibilism Foundationalism Hypothetico-deductive model Infinitism Instrumentalism Naturalism Physicalism Positivism Pragmatism Rationalism Received view of theories Reductionism Semantic view of theories Scientific realism Scientific anti-realism Scientific skepticism Scientism Uniformitarianism Vitalism Metaphysics

Related	Epistemology History and philosophy of science History of science History of evolutionary thought Pseudoscience Relationship between religion and science Rhetoric of science Sociology of scientific knowledge Criticism of science Alchemy more...

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