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Branch of philosophy that investigates the foundations, methods, implications, and limits of scientific knowledge. It examines questions such as: what distinguishes science from non-science (the demarcation problem), how scientific theories develop (Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend), what scientific explanation is, the role of observation and experimentation, the nature of scientific laws, and scientific realism versus anti-realism. Philosophy of science does not do science but thinks about science—its premises, its historical transformations, and its place in human knowledge. It is often ignored or ridiculed by hard-narrow scientism.
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