Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy that studies the philosophical assumptions, foundations, and implications of science, including the formal sciences, natural sciences, and social sciences. In this respect, the philosophy of science is closely related to epistemology and the philosophy of language.
The philosophy of science includes a consideration of the following topics:
Science Education
Science in Society :: Science
Science :: By Topic
Epistemology :: Philosophy

Abuddhas Memes - Weblog dedicated to science, philosophy, education and freedom.
Anarchology Research Society - Weblog of the society focusing on philosophy of interscience, methods of analysis in chaos theoretic models, and the calculus of anarchic equilibriums.
Incommensurability Literature - Bibliography on incommensurability and related matters.
Intertheory Relations in Physics - Discussion of theory reduction in science; by Robert Batterman from the Stanford Encyclopedia.
Laws of Nature - Philosophical theories about what it is to be a law; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by John W. Carroll.
Philosophy of Science - Essays on philosophy of science from the Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series.
Philosophy of Science Events - A list maintained by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.
Philosophy of Science Resources - Resource page supplementing Bruce Janz' philosophy of science course.
Philsci Archive - An electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science.
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Psychology and Science - An overview of certain key issues in the philosophy of science, with an emphasis on the work of Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend.
Science and Spirituality - Artile examines relations between two modes of cognition: rational-scientific and intuitive-spiritual.
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Science and the Philosophy of Science - Directory devoted to the field includes definitions, examples (with swans!), glossary, books, induction, deduction and abduction. By Martin Sewell.
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Science Studies Web Server - Resource site at the University of Missouri.
Scientific Explanation - Philosophical theories about the nature of explanation in science; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by James Woodward.
Scientific Realism - Stanford Encyclopedia entry on thesis that science discovers truths about a theory-independent reality; by Richard Boyd.
Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge - Discussess the impact of social relations and values on scientific research; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Helen Longino.
Theories of Explanation - Entry on explanation in the sciences from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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TransactionalView - A site devoted to John Dewey and Arthur Bentley's transactional philosophy of science as laid out in their 1949 book Knowing and the Known. With articles, readings, and a mailing list.
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What Is Science? - Overview of the theory of science from an anthroposophical point of view.
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WSRC - Critical Realism - 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.
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