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An electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science.
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PhilSci Archive It is offered as a free service to the philosophy of science community. The goal of the Archive is to promote communication in the field by the rapid dissemination of new work. Authors who wish to post papers to the...Stanford Encyclopedia entry on thesis that science discovers truths about a theory-independent reality; by Richard Boyd.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/
Discussess the impact of social relations and values on scientific research; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Helen Longino.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-knowledge-social/
Discussion of theory reduction in science; by Robert Batterman from the Stanford Encyclopedia.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-interrelate/
Philosophical theories about the nature of explanation in science; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by James Woodward.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-explanation/
Philosophical theories about what it is to be a law; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by John W. Carroll.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/laws-of-nature/
Essays on philosophy of science from the Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series.
http://www.friesian.com/science.htm
Resource site at the University of Missouri.
http://scistud.umkc.edu/
Bibliography on incommensurability and related matters.
http://sun1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/zeww/inc.conf.litlist.html
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.
http://www.raggedclaws.com/criticalrealism/
Overview of the theory of science from an anthroposophical point of view.
http://hem.passagen.se/thebee/SCIENCE/Science.htm
Examines the components, limitations, and popular mistaken beliefs of science and the scientific method. The web page also contains a section on scientific legitimacy.
http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/tisthammerw/science.html
Entry on explanation in the sciences from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/explanat.htm
Discusses the notion of natural systems theory.
http://www.lewismicropublishing.com/Publications/NaturalSystems/
An overview of certain key issues in the philosophy of science, with an emphasis on the work of Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend.
http://www.sar.bolton.ac.uk/ltl/lecture2/intro.htm
Resource page supplementing Bruce Janz' philosophy of science course.
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/science/
Weblog dedicated to science, philosophy, education and freedom.
http://www.drmenlo.com/abuddha/bookmark.htm