Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of Science can be traced all the way back to the Pre-Socratic philosophers and their enquiries into the nature and composition of the cosmos. Though they lacked the scientific knowledge of the modern day, they anticipated notions of change, stasis, atomism and monism that, re-evaluated by Aristotle, would inform debates from the Renaissance onwards. With deterministic laws about the universe influencing philosophy, and philosophical views on the nature of what can be known, informing one another, the philosophy of science has been an important branch of learning for hundreds of years. By the Twentieth Century, movements like logical positivism, reductive materialism, quantum mechanics and Kuhn’s views on scientific revolutions enriched an already fertile area of study. Philosophy of Science engages the subject from the Classical era to the present day.