Friday, June 29, 2012

Science background reading

I did some background reading on science before my previous post. It seems both our positions fit reasonably well into known categories. My position is closest to scientific pragmatism. Yours appears to be closest to epistemological anarchism. I enclose my reading list below.

Overview of science:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branches_of_science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_science

Types of science:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_sciences
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_central_science

Boundaries of science:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation_problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_wars

Pragmatism and scientific realism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmaticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_theory_of_truth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_realism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_reasoning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_progress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Relativity_of_Wrong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wronger_than_wrong

Less pragmatic but related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsificationism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumentalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergentism

Unpragmatic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism

Unscientific:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-realism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_school

Epistemological anarchism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemological_anarchism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Feyerabend
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Lakatos

Obsolete:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_realism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_realism

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