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Philosophy of Science

The catalogue includes 6 thinkers in Philosophy of Science.

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Each school page lists the thinkers in our catalogue who belong to this tradition (primary school or recorded affiliation). Dates, works and bios come from the same catalogue as the app. We do not write original essays about the school.

Thinkers in this tradition

  • Auguste Comte
    1798 – 1857

    Auguste Comte (1798–1857) was a French philosopher, the founder of positivism and the coiner of the word 'sociology'. In his Course of Positive Philosophy he argued that human knowledge passes through three stages —…

  • Ernst Haeckel
    1834 – 1919

    Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) was a German zoologist and philosopher who became Darwin's most influential champion in the German-speaking world. He coined lasting scientific terms such as 'ecology' and 'phylogeny' and…

  • Gaston Bachelard
    1884 – 1962

    Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) was a French philosopher who worked as a provincial postal clerk before becoming a professor at the Sorbonne. In The Formation of the Scientific Mind he argued that science advances by…

  • Max Weber
    1864 – 1920

    Max Weber (1864–1920) was a German sociologist, economist and philosopher, a founding figure of modern social science. In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) he traced links between religious…

  • Paul Feyerabend
    1924 – 1994

    Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science, long a professor at Berkeley, and the field's great provocateur. In Against Method (1975) he defended 'epistemological anarchism', arguing that…

  • Thomas Kuhn
    1922 – 1996

    Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996) was an American physicist turned historian and philosopher of science. His book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) argued that science does not advance by steady accumulation but…