4 Philosophy of science in historical perspective
Philosophy of science is a philosophical discipline concerned with the foundations, methods and implications of science, including applications of its findings in socio-economic practice. Its scope overlaps with epistemology, for example, when it explores the relationship between scientific knowledge and truth. Philosophy of science as an autonomous discipline is a product of the twentieth century. On the one hand, its development was influenced by the great intellectual challenges of the quantum physics and relativity theories; on the other hand, it was modulated by philosophical issues of the theory of evolution, psychoanalysis and Marxist economics1. In this chapter, presentation of the ...
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