steve_bank
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What is a philosophy of science?
I never knew anyone from science or engineering who had a philosophy integrated into work, other that The Method from Descartes. And that is a general outline of trial and error.
Ancient humans controlled fire, made weapons, and became practical engineers and scientist's without any philosophy or 'bible' so to speak.
From science philosophers I read I got a context of science which was useful. A way of looking at the human dynamics. Popper for one.
I do not think how science works can be reduced to a philosophy. I look at science as a profession. More sophisticated than say plumbing, but a profession none the less. We all do science but don't normally call it that. Observes, hypotwsize, test hypotheses.
We all learn to sense when it might rain or snow. Color and allude of clouds. Temperature. Smell.
Science as a profession quantifies it into a numerical model. Weather simulations.
From Popper the only real objective science is an experiment. As the circle expands around the expedient it becomes less objective and more philosophical speculation.
Instrumentalismis the way I generally look at it, but it did not affect how I went about things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimentalism
Experimentalism is the philosophical belief that the way to truth is through experiments and empiricism.[1] It is also associated with instrumentalism, the belief that truth should be evaluated based upon its demonstrated usefulness. Deborah Mayo suggests that we should focus on how experimental knowledge is actually arrived at and how it functions in science[2]. Mayo also suggests that the reason New Experimentalists have come up short, is that the part of experiments that have the most to offer in building an account of inference and evidence that are left untapped: designing, generating, modelling and analysing experiments and data.
Less formally, artists often pursue their visions through trial and error; this form of experimentalism has been practiced in every field, from music to film and from literature to theatre.
I never knew anyone from science or engineering who had a philosophy integrated into work, other that The Method from Descartes. And that is a general outline of trial and error.
Ancient humans controlled fire, made weapons, and became practical engineers and scientist's without any philosophy or 'bible' so to speak.
From science philosophers I read I got a context of science which was useful. A way of looking at the human dynamics. Popper for one.
I do not think how science works can be reduced to a philosophy. I look at science as a profession. More sophisticated than say plumbing, but a profession none the less. We all do science but don't normally call it that. Observes, hypotwsize, test hypotheses.
We all learn to sense when it might rain or snow. Color and allude of clouds. Temperature. Smell.
Science as a profession quantifies it into a numerical model. Weather simulations.
From Popper the only real objective science is an experiment. As the circle expands around the expedient it becomes less objective and more philosophical speculation.
Instrumentalismis the way I generally look at it, but it did not affect how I went about things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimentalism
Experimentalism is the philosophical belief that the way to truth is through experiments and empiricism.[1] It is also associated with instrumentalism, the belief that truth should be evaluated based upon its demonstrated usefulness. Deborah Mayo suggests that we should focus on how experimental knowledge is actually arrived at and how it functions in science[2]. Mayo also suggests that the reason New Experimentalists have come up short, is that the part of experiments that have the most to offer in building an account of inference and evidence that are left untapped: designing, generating, modelling and analysing experiments and data.
Less formally, artists often pursue their visions through trial and error; this form of experimentalism has been practiced in every field, from music to film and from literature to theatre.