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Karl Popper (1902-1994) was one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century. He made significant contributions to debates concerning general scientific methodology and theory choice, the demarcation of science from non-science, the nature of probability and quantum mechanics, and the methodology of the social sciences.
Category Archives: Philosophy of Science. Altruism and Group Selection. Anthropology, The Philosophy of. Aristotle: Biology. Aristotle: Motion and its Place in Nature. Causal Role Theories of Functional Explanation. Causation. Climate Science, The Philosophy of. Confirmation and Induction.
The view that simplicity is a virtue in scientific theories and that, other things being equal, simpler theories should be preferred to more complex ones has been widely advocated in the history of science and philosophy, and it remains widely held by modern scientists and philosophers of science.
Encyclopedia of Science, Worlds of David Darling, alphabetical order.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.
David Darling, a British astronomer and science writer, provides straightforward explanations of seemingly difficult concepts. In addition to an easily navigable alphabetical list and a keyword search, the encyclopedia is interlinked so that users can easily progress through the materials.
The Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (EnSciTech) is a reference resource containing a compilation of scientific and technological information in the form of articles written by Members of the Scientific Community Registry.
