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this is not science of science. at most you could call it "engineering of science". science of science is epistemology
by slim 7y ago
this is not science of science. at most you could call it "engineering of science". science of science is epistemology
- srfilipek 7y ago> science of science is epistemology That would be the Philosophy of Science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science
- camelNotation 7y agoEpistemology is the study of knowledge. If science isn't a form of knowledge, what is?
- stillbourne 7y agoYou are not wrong but he's not either. The science of science, or metascience, is a field of epistemology, is a philosophy of science. They are all part of the same thing.
- nabla9 7y agoScience of science is metascience aka meta-research. Applying scientific method to science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metascience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metascience http://metrics.stanford.edu/ http://metrics.stanford.edu/ Epistemology is philosophy of knowledge, justification, and the rationality of belief. Epistemologists don't use methods that would make it science.
- aldoushuxley001 7y agoIs the scientific method really being applied here though? Certainly doesn't look like it.