In memoriam : Karl R. Popper by Cecilia Tohăneanu

“…Dedicated to Karl Popper’s memory, this essay aims at following the echo of his critical rationalism and how it has been received by Mario Bunge, one of the most prominent contemporary philosopher of science – an admirer, later a critic of Popper’s social and political philosophy. …”
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Fundamentos filosóficos dos livros didáticos elaborados por Ratke, no século XVII by Sandino Hoff

“…In Ratke, the philosophical aspects science- are of a general order but the teaching method the art of teaching is part of the lesson of things.…”
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The Role of Theory in Empirical Second Language Acquisition Research: An Introduction by Ashley Beccia, Paige Yi

“…Theorizing about solutions to these puzzles requires working at the edge of uncertainty, making bold postulations, and engaging in what renowned philosopher of science Karl Popper terms critical rationalism; it is through the development of theories that are falsifiable and the subsequent empirical testing of those theories that our knowledge about the world (i.e., of natural phenomena) will progress (Popper, 1968).…”
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To reveal disease or to promote function – that is the question by Eivind Meland, Stefan Hjörleifsson

“…A descriptive disease concept is apt to what philosopher of science Ian Hacking called "looping effects”, which can explain why health care is faced with insatiable demands. …”
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The Problem of Understanding of Nature in Exact Science by Leo Näpinen

“…The Estonian philosopher of science Rein Vihalemm (2008) has shown with his conception of phi-science (φ-science) that exact science is itself an idealized model or theoretical object derived from Galilean mathematical physics.…”
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Models and Modeling in Science: the role of metamathematics by Décio Krause

“…This looks obvious, at least for logicians, but generally, it is not to the philosopher of science. Thus, some details about this point seem useful for both. …”
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Archaeological programmes by Staša Babić

“…The concept of a research programme, introduced by the philosopher of science Imre Lakatos, is suggested as the more productive mode of assessing the multitude of approaches present in archaeology. …”
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Exposing the Vanities-and a Qualified Defense-of Mechanistic Reasoning in Health Care Decision Making by Howick, J

“…Philosophers of science have insisted that evidence of underlying mechanisms is required to support claims about the effects of medical interventions. …”

Debate between American Philosophers H. Putnam and N. Chomsky on the Internal or Social Nature of Language by Yaroslav Sobolievskyi, Hanna Liebiedieva

“…Secondly, H. Putnam is a philosopher of science, particularly the philosopher of physics, mathematics, logic, from the study of which he turns to the study of language. …”
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Auguste Comte and Consensus Formation in American Religious Thought—Part 2: Twilight of New England Comtism by Kenneth S. Sacks

“…Auguste Comte was the most influential sociologist and philosopher of science in the Nineteenth Century. Part 1 summarized his works and analyzed reactions to them by Transcendentalists and Unitarians from 1837 until just after the Civil War. …”
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Does the Brain Drain Effect Really Exist? A Meta-Analysis by Tobias Böttger, Michael Poschik, Klaus Zierer

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A foray into not-quite companion species: design experiments with urban animals as significant others by Jönsson, Li, Lenskjold, Tau Ulv

“…We expand the notion of companion species from philosopher of science Donna Haraway and begin to position the current project within a growing interest in animals in contemporary design research. …”
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Liberal Education Themes in the Philosophy of Methodological Anarchism of Paul K. Feyerabend by Agata Łopatkiewicz

“…<p>The paper aims at analyzing the conception of Austrian philosopher of science, Paul K. Feyerabend, for compatibility with the fundamental determinants of the conception of liberal education. …”
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Biology and its disciplinary Partitions – intellectual and academic Constraints by MINELLI, ALESSANDRO

“…Disciplinary divisions within the life sciences can be seriously limiting for the philosopher of science, much less so for the scientist, although many concepts of foundational importance for different biological disciplines are nomadic concepts that take on the most diverse meanings according to the contexts in which they are used. …”
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The Development of Philosophy and Its Fundamental Informational Turn by Kun Wu

“…Through the rescientification of philosophy and the philosophization of science, an entirely new concept of science and philosophy as part of general human knowledge is developing. …”
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A foray into not-quite companion species: design experiments with urban animals as significant others by Tau Ulv Lenskjold

“…We expand the notion of companion species from philosopher of science Donna Haraway and begin to position the current project within a growing interest in animals in contemporary design research. …”
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The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI by Lucy Suchman

“…Addressing this question takes us to knowledge practices that philosopher of science Helen Verran has named a ‘hardening of the categories’, processes that not only characterise the onto-epistemology of AI but also are central to its constituent techniques and technologies. …”
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Gaia Is a Tough Bitch by Claire Sagan

“…Turning both to Lynn Margulis’ and to feminist philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers’ understanding of Gaia, the article resists anthropocentric visions to articulate less hubristic and potentially more democratic responses to our current ecological catastrophes.     …”
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Auguste Comte and Consensus Formation in American Religious Thought—Part 1: The Creation of Consensus by Kenneth S. Sacks

“…French intellectual Auguste Comte was the most influential sociologist and philosopher of science in the Nineteenth Century. This first of two articles summarizes his complex life’s works and details reactions to them by Transcendentalists and Unitarians, from its American introduction in 1837 until just after the Civil War. …”
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Methodological Discourse of International Economic Policy by Anton Filipenko

“…In particular, distinctive features of using the philosophical, general science, specific science and applied methodology in the study of global economic problems, in creating the principles, forms, mechanisms and tools of international economic policy are clarified. …”
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