Philosophers principally known for theories of scientific method, explanation, theory change, and the demarcation of science from non-science, including the philosophical study of biology as a science in its own right. Belongs here: philosophers of the experimental and inductive method, falsificationism, paradigm theory, and the logical-positivist analysis of scientific language, folded together with philosophy of biology here rather than as its own single-member subcategory given this atlas's current holdings. Does not belong here: working scientists whose philosophical reflection is incidental to their scientific work, whose domain facets belong on this atlas's sibling Science Atlas.
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1. Wikipedia: Philosophy of science
WikipediaPhilosophy of science, lead section, emergence sentence
While philosophical thought pertaining to science dates back at least to the time of Aristotle, the general philosophy of science emerged as a distinct discipline only in the 20th century following the logical positivist movement.
Philosophy of science, lead section, Vienna/Berlin Circle sentence
the Berlin Circle and the Vienna Circle propounded logical positivism in the late 1920s.
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