List of philosophers of science
This is a chronological list of philosophers of science. For an alphabetical name-list, see Category:Philosophers of science.
Before the 19th century
- Roger Bacon
- Sir Francis Bacon
- Galileo Galilei
19th century
- Auguste Comte
- William Whewell
- George Henry Lewes
- William Stanley Jevons
- Ernst Mach
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Edmund Husserl
- Frederich Engels
1900–1930
- Nikola Tesla
- Henri Poincaré
- Pierre Duhem
- Niels Bohr
- Albert Einstein
- Bertrand Russell
- Frank P. Ramsey
- Moritz Schlick
- John Dewey
- Alfred North Whitehead
1930–1960
- Alfred Ayer
- Mario Bunge
- Hans Reichenbach
- Georges Canguilhem
- Noam Chomsky
- Kenneth Craik
- Alexandre Koyré
- Sir Karl Popper
- Rudolf Carnap
- Michael Polanyi
- Otto Neurath
- Carl Gustav Hempel
- Paul Oppenheim
- Gaston Bachelard
- R. B. Braithwaite
- Werner Heisenberg
- Taketani Mitsuo
- Stephen Toulmin
1960–1980
- David Bloor
- David Bohm
- Paul Feyerabend
- Mary Hesse
- Thomas Kuhn
- Imre Lakatos
- Ernest Nagel
- Hilary Putnam
- W.V. Quine
- Michael Ruse
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
1980–present
- Peter Achinstein
- David Albert
- Jeffrey A. Barrett
- Roy Bhaskar
- Maarten Boudry
- Richard Boyd
- Arturo Carsetti
- Nancy Cartwright
- David Castle
- Anjan Chakravartty
- Alan Chalmers
- Hasok Chang
- Patricia Churchland
- Paul Churchland
- Daniel Dennett
- John Dupré
- John Earman
- Bas van Fraassen
- Ronald Giere
- Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Rebecca Goldstein
- Adolf Grünbaum
- Susan Haack
- Ian Hacking
- Donna Haraway
- Sandra Harding
- Michał Heller
- Jaakko Hintikka
- Paul Hoyningen-Huene
- Philip Kitcher
- Ursula Klein
- Larry Laudan
- John Lennox
- Isaac Levi
- Peter Lipton
- Helen Longino
- Elisabeth Lloyd
- Tim Maudlin
- Deborah Mayo
- Ernan McMullin
- Peter Medawar
- Sandra Mitchell
- John E. Murdoch
- Nancey Murphy
- Basarab Nicolescu
- Massimo Pigliucci
- John Polkinghorne
- Stathis Psillos
- Hilary Putnam
- Benedict Rattigan
- Alexander Rosenberg
- Oliver Sacks
- Wesley C. Salmon
- Eric Scerri
- Kristin Shrader-Frechette
- Lawrence Sklar
- Brian Skyrms
- Quentin Smith
- Elliott Sober
- Miriam Solomon
- Wolfgang Stegmüller
- Kim Sterelny
- David Stove
- Patrick Suppes
- Claudine Tiercelin
- Roberto Torretti
- John Worrall
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- Analysis
- Analytic–synthetic distinction
- A priori and a posteriori
- Causality
- Commensurability
- Consilience
- Construct
- Creative synthesis
- Demarcation problem
- Empirical evidence
- Explanatory power
- Fact
- Falsifiability
- Feminist method
- Functional contextualism
- Ignoramus et ignorabimus
- Inductive reasoning
- Intertheoretic reduction
- Inquiry
- Nature
- Objectivity
- Observation
- Paradigm
- Problem of induction
- Scientific evidence
- Scientific law
- Scientific method
- Scientific pluralism
- Scientific Revolution
- Scientific theory
- Testability
- Theory choice
- Theory-ladenness
- Underdetermination
- Unity of science
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- Coherentism
- Confirmation holism
- Constructive empiricism
- Constructive realism
- Constructivist epistemology
- Contextualism
- Conventionalism
- Deductive-nomological model
- Epistemological anarchism
- Evolutionism
- Fallibilism
- Foundationalism
- Hypothetico-deductive model
- Inductionism
- Instrumentalism
- Model-dependent realism
- Naturalism
- Physicalism
- Positivism / Reductionism / Determinism
- Pragmatism
- Rationalism / Empiricism
- Received view / Semantic view of theories
- Scientific essentialism
- Scientific formalism
- Scientific realism / Anti-realism
- Scientific skepticism
- Scientism
- Structuralism
- Uniformitarianism
- Vitalism
- Criticism of science
- Descriptive science
- Epistemology
- Faith and rationality
- Hard and soft science
- History and philosophy of science
- Normative science
- Protoscience
- Pseudoscience
- Relationship between religion and science
- Rhetoric of science
- Science studies
- Sociology of scientific ignorance
- Sociology of scientific knowledge
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- Auguste Comte
- Henri Poincaré
- Pierre Duhem
- Rudolf Steiner
- Karl Pearson
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Wilhelm Windelband
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Bertrand Russell
- Otto Neurath
- C. D. Broad
- Michael Polanyi
- Hans Reichenbach
- Rudolf Carnap
- Karl Popper
- Carl Gustav Hempel
- W. V. O. Quine
- Thomas Kuhn
- Imre Lakatos
- Paul Feyerabend
- Ian Hacking
- Bas van Fraassen
- Larry Laudan
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