Philosophy: Philosophy of Science

Essays on philosophy of science from the Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series.

Resource site at the University of Missouri.

An independent site highlighting the development, interrogation, explication, and application of critical realist methods and analyses; features a bibliography, a glossary, and an archive of papers.

Examines the components, limitations, and popular mistaken beliefs of science and the scientific method. The web page also contains a section on scientific legitimacy.

Stanford Encyclopedia entry on thesis that science discovers truths about a theory-independent reality; by Richard Boyd.

Discussess the impact of social relations and values on scientific research; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Helen Longino.

Discussion of theory reduction in science; by Robert Batterman from the Stanford Encyclopedia.

An electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science.

Philosophical theories about the nature of explanation in science; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by James Woodward.

Entry on explanation in the sciences from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Philosophical theories about what it is to be a law; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by John W. Carroll.

Discusses the notion of natural systems theory.

Resource page supplementing Bruce Janz' philosophy of science course.

Weblog dedicated to science, philosophy, education and freedom.