What Philosophy of Science argues
- Philosophy of science asks what counts as evidence, explanation, and method.
- It studies how knowledge stabilizes—and how it fails.
Primary works in Philosophy of Science (9)
- Francis Bacon — Novum Organum (1620) — Book · read the full text
- René Descartes — Discourse on Method (1637) — Book · read the full text
- David Hume — An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) — Book · read the full text
- Bertrand Russell — The Problems of Philosophy (1912) — Book · read the full text
- William Whewell — The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840) — Book · read the full text
- John Stuart Mill — A System of Logic (1843) — Book · read the full text
- Henri Poincaré — Science and Hypothesis (1902) — Book · read the full text
- Auguste Comte — The Positive Philosophy (1830) — Book · read the full text
- Heinrich Hertz — The Principles of Mechanics (1899) — Book · read the full text
Chambers connected to Philosophy of Science
- Logic — Method ↔ reasoning
- Psychology — Method ↔ mind
- Knowledge Itself — Method ↔ epistemology
- Wisdom Literature — Counsel by analogy and example — the method Bacon later critiqued, here in its earliest written form.