What this chamber argues

• Philosophy of science asks what counts as evidence, explanation, and method.
• It studies how knowledge stabilizes—and how it fails.

Primary works in this chamber (9)

• Francis Bacon — Novum Organum (1620) — Book
• René Descartes — Discourse on Method (1637) — Book
• David Hume — An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) — Book
• Bertrand Russell — The Problems of Philosophy (1912) — Book
• William Whewell — The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840) — Book
• John Stuart Mill — A System of Logic (1843) — Book
• Henri Poincaré — Science and Hypothesis (1902) — Book
• Auguste Comte — The Positive Philosophy (1830) — Book
• Heinrich Hertz — The Principles of Mechanics (1899) — Book

Connected chambers

• 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.