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I don't think the scientific method was "produced" by philosophy of science. I think it was merely described by it after a certain way of doing things has alrea

• tokai 12y ago
  When practitioners "crystallized" their practices, what they were doing was effectively philosophy of science.
  • khafra 12y ago
    But they were focused on object-level problems when they were doing that crystallization. Can you accidentally do philosophy as a side effect?
• KC8ZKF 12y ago
  I think falsifiability came from Popper.
• GrantS 12y ago
  Take a look at Francis Bacon's Novum Organum written in 1620, specifically the sections on the four idols of the human mind that sometimes prevent one from reaching truthful conclusions. To my mind, this is philosophy of science before any practices had really crystallized. Reading this in college, I remember being impressed that Bacon seemed so modern in his thinking 400 years ago. His awareness of and focus on the fact that cognition is influenced by cultural context is a huge step and I was unaware it had been made so long ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novum_Organum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novum_Organum Full text here: http://www.constitution.org/bacon/nov_org.htm http://www.constitution.org/bacon/nov_org.htm
• nitid_name 12y ago
  Do you consider formalizing an action/set-of-actions a valuable contribution?