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Abductive reasoning

Norwood Russell Hanson, a philosopher of science, wanted to grasp a logic explaining how scientific discoveries take place.

Social change

Kuhnian: The philosopher of science, Thomas Kuhn argues in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions with respect to the Copernican Revolution that people are unlikely to jettison an unworkable paradigm, despite many indications that the paradigm is not functioning properly, until a better paradigm can be presented.


see also

Abner Shimony

Abner Shimony (born 1928, Columbus, Ohio) is an American physicist and philosopher of science specializing in quantum theory.

Alan G. Gross

This book was reviewed by the historian and philosopher of science Joseph Agassi.

Brian Ellis

Brian David Ellis, philosopher of science at University of Melbourne

Bricmont

Jean Bricmont (born 1952), Belgian theoretical physicist, philosopher of science and academic

Colin Howson

Professor Howson is married to Margaret Morrison, a Canadian philosopher of science who is also a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

Friedrich Stadler

Friedrich Stadler (born July 17, 1951 in Zeltweg, Styria) is an Austrian historian of science and philosopher of science, and professor for history and philosophy of science at the University of Vienna.

Gary A. Olson

In 1991, Olson began conducting scholarly interviews of internationally prominent intellectuals including anthropologist Clifford Geertz, linguist Noam Chomsky, deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, postmodern theorist Jean-François Lyotard, philosopher of science Sandra Harding, theorist and cultural critic Donna Haraway, political philosopher Ernesto Laclau, and feminist theorist bell hooks.

James Cushing

James T. Cushing (1937–2002), American physicist and philosopher of science

Konstantin Ramul

Ramul believed that history is dependent upon psychology, though the philosopher of science Ernest Nagel criticized him for "not stating clearly the type of psychological investigation which is relevant to the historian's task" (Nagel 1934, pp. 599-600).

Nancy Durham

In 2003 she and her husband the Oxford Philosopher of Science, W.H Newton-Smith, planted a field of lavender on their farm in mid Wales, the first to do so in Wales on a field scale.

Neurath

Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher of science, sociologist and economist

Peter Manicas

Peter Manicas is a philosopher of science and society at University of Hawaii, Honolulu.