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History & Philosophy of Science

Edited by Eleni Angelou last updated 3rd Jan 2023

History & Philosophy of Science (HPS) encompasses the integrated study of the history and philosophy of science. It breaks down into general HPS which is concerned with questions about the nature of science and scientific development, e.g., what is a scientific law?, and HPS of individual sciences which focuses on the specific agenda of a science e.g., history and philosophy of biology.

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37The special nature of special relativity

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85Book Review: Worlds of Flow

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101Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers

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100Science advances one funeral at a time

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70A Social History of Truth

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54Formalization as suspension of intuition

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54On the Role of Proto-Languages

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44Scientific Wrestling: Beyond Passive Hypothesis-Testing

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42Why Reality Has A Well-Known Math Bias

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41Dependency Tree For The Development Of Plate Tectonics

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40Why Can't We Hypothesize After the Fact?

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37Levels of Pluralism

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37My Model of Epistemology

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35Empirical vs. Mathematical Joints of Nature

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34What does it mean to “trust science”?

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