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Parent topics

• Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge about the physical world derived from the activities of observation and experimentation. [e]
• Philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. [e]

Subtopics

• Discourse on Method [r]: Philosophical and mathematical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637, best known as the source of the famous quotation 'Je pense, donc je suis' ('I think, therefore I am'). [e]
• History of scientific method [r]: Development and elaboration of rules for scientific reasoning and investigation. [e]
• Scientific misconduct [r]: Violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behaviour in professional scientific research. [e]
• Pseudoscience [r]: Any theory that supporters claim to be scientific but which the scientific community deems fallacious [e]
• Reductionism [r]: The attempt to explain phenomena by basic laws of physics and chemistry. [e]

Philosophers

• Aristotle [r]: (384-322 BCE) Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, and one of the most influential figures in the western world between 350 BCE and the sixteenth century. [e]
• Galileo Galilei [r]: (1564-1642) Italian scientist, a pioneer in combining mathematical theory with systematic experiment in science, who came into conflict with the Church. [e]
• René Descartes [r]: French 17th-century philosopher, mathematician and scientist, author of the Discourse on Method. [e]
• Francis Bacon [r]: (1561-1626) English Renaissance essayist and philosopher who argued that science should proceed empirically, by induction. [e]
• Roger Bacon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• David Hume [r]: (1711-1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. [e]

Twentieth Century Philosophers

• Thomas Kuhn [r]: (1921–1996) American philosopher who revolutionized philosophy of science by describing science as being driven by paradigm-defining revolutions rather than steady progress. [e]
• Karl Popper [r]: (July 28 1902 – September 17 1994), One of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century. [e]
• Paul Feyerabend [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Imre Lakatos [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Hypothesis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Theory [r]: An abstract description of causal relationships. [e]
• Proof [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Proof (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• Laboratory [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Experiment [r]: A test of causal relationships. [e]
• Simulation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Data [r]: The outcome of original research. [e]
• Evidence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Evidence-based medicine [r]: The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. [e]
• Evidence-based decision-making [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Academic journal [r]: A regularly-published, peer-reviewed publication that publishes scholarship relating to an academic discipline. [e]
• Scientific journal [r]: A publication venue for original research and scholarly review articles — for more than three centuries on paper and now increasingly online. [e]
• Research peer review [r]: Evaluation by experts of the quality and pertinence of research or research proposals of other experts in the same field. [e]
• Science 2.0 [r]: An umbrella term used to label the adoption of Web 2.0 tools for scientific activities. [e]
• Knowledge [r]: On one common account by philosophers, justified, true belief; often used in a looser way by everyone else to mean any truth or belief, and also a whole body of truth or a whole system of belief. [e]
• Fact [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Belief [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Truth [r]: The accuracy or factuality of a statement; has been explained by philosophers as correspondence to reality, coherence with a body of thought, and in several other ways; also (with a capital "T"), deep, important wisdom. [e]
• Axiom [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Observation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Deduction [r]: Deduction is defined as inference from stated premises (see the article on argument). The reality of of a deductive inference is entirely dependant upon the reality of its premises. [e]
• Induction [r]: Induction is defined as inference from observations (see the article on argument). Inferences by induction are subject to revision when further observations are made. [e]
• Paradigm [r]: Defined by Thomas Kuhn as an entire constellation of beliefs, values and techniques etc. shared by the members of a given community. [e]