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Is there a philosophy of science forum? If not, could there

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I was just wandering where discussions on what forum some of the recent scientific discoveries should be addressed to. Discoveries such as string theory and some of the conclusions of quantuum physics. Are should they be placed, like some cosmology, in metaphysics forum?
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Yea, I asked for that also a while back... I mean you made a Interviews and One-on-One Discussions section and even an ignore button... Why no philosophy of science? Seems like it should logically come before those other things mentioned.
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I think perhaps Epistemology may be the appropriate forum to debate how may know what we know.
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yes belinda, but then you have people challenging every little thing. if put in the context of physical science, it would eliminate a lot of that.....but thats where i would put it for now also.
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I'm not sure if it would , wanabe, or even if I'd want it to eliminate differences of opinion.

A debate within philosophy of science is not the same as a debate within the parameters of some particular scientific rationale.I think that the current state of the debate within philosophy of science places Popper above Kuhn.Perhaps Kuhn is popularly misunderstood,and his theory should not have been applied to areas outwith science, such as morality and sociology.
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why not just throw everything in metaphysics then Belinda; its all "knowledge".

Belinda- "A debate within philosophy of science is not the same as a debate within the parameters of some particular scientific rationale."

you are right, but it would remind people of the context.

if there are sections of interviews/one on ones and a contributors forum, why not make another section for philosophy of science: to critically analyze science.

seems rather unbalanced to start making a bunch of new individualistic forums, and not make any new forums for every one, for every one to participate it.
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Are there that many philosophical topics in the forums that fall in the subcategory of philosophy of science that warrant creating a new forum category for it?

Politics and religion have their own subcategories due to the huge number of philosophy threads created that happen to be about religion and politics, which would overshadow non-religious, non-political philosophy topics if those did not have their own category.

Also, wouldn't the vast majority of 'philosophy of science' questions be 'metaphysics' questions?
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wanabe wrote:yes belinda, but then you have people challenging every little thing. if put in the context of physical science, it would eliminate a lot of that.....but thats where i would put it for now also.
A PHILOSOPHY of science forum, would necessarily be a place where that science was scrutinised within the eye of reason.
What you actually want (need) is just a science forum, immune from the clutches of philosophy.
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DEPENDS on how you define philosophy.

It would be scrutinized with the eye of reason via physical evidence.
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wanabe wrote:It would be scrutinized with the eye of reason via physical evidence.
But that's what scientists do, not philosophers. Not unless they are materialists that aren't interested in any other viewpoint, anyway.

We seem to be having the same discussion in two threads. Probably better to focus it in the poll thread.
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