List of philosophers of science - Wikipedia List of philosophers of science From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Wikipedia list article See also: Index of philosophy of science articles This is a chronological list of philosophers of science. For an alphabetical name-list, see Category:Philosophers of science. Contents 1 Before the 16th century 2 16th century 3 17th century 4 18th century 5 19th century 6 1900–1930 7 1930–1960 8 1960–1980 9 1980–present Before the 16th century[edit] Socrates Democritus Plato Aristotle Empedocles Al-Ghazali Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen) Robert Grosseteste Roger Bacon Albert the Great Thomas Aquinas 16th century[edit] Sir Francis Bacon 17th century[edit] Galileo Galilei René Descartes Pierre Gassendi Gottfried Leibniz 18th century[edit] George Berkeley Immanuel Kant David Hume 19th century[edit] Auguste Comte John Stuart Mill William Whewell George Henry Lewes William Stanley Jevons Ernst Mach Charles Sanders Peirce Edmund Husserl Frederich Engels 1900–1930[edit] Nicola Tesla Henri Poincaré Pierre Duhem Niels Bohr Albert Einstein Bertrand Russell Frank P. Ramsey Moritz Schlick John Dewey Alfred North Whitehead 1930–1960[edit] Alfred Ayer Mario Bunge Hans Reichenbach Georges Canguilhem Noam Chomsky Kenneth Craik Alexandre Koyré Sir Karl Popper Rudolf Carnap Michael Polanyi Otto Neurath Carl Gustav Hempel Paul Oppenheim Gaston Bachelard R. B. Braithwaite Werner Heisenberg Taketani Mitsuo Stephen Toulmin 1960–1980[edit] David Bloor Paul Feyerabend Mary Hesse Thomas Kuhn Imre Lakatos Ernest Nagel Hilary Putnam W.V. Quine Michael Ruse Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker 1980–present[edit] Peter Achinstein David Albert Jeffrey A. Barrett Roy Bhaskar Maarten Boudry Richard Boyd Arturo Carsetti Nancy Cartwright David Castle Anjan Chakravartty Alan Chalmers Hasok Chang Patricia Churchland Paul Churchland Daniel Dennett John Dupré John Earman Bas van Fraassen Ronald Giere Peter Godfrey-Smith Rebecca Goldstein Adolf Grünbaum Susan Haack Ian Hacking Donna Haraway Sandra Harding Michał Heller Jaakko Hintikka Paul Hoyningen-Huene Philip Kitcher Ursula Klein Larry Laudan John Lennox Isaac Levi Peter Lipton Helen Longino Elisabeth Lloyd Ernan McMullin Peter Medawar Sandra Mitchell John E. Murdoch Nancey Murphy Basarab Nicolescu Massimo Pigliucci John Polkinghorne Stathis Psillos Alexander Rosenberg Oliver Sacks Wesley C. Salmon Eric Scerri Kristin Shrader-Frechette Lawrence Sklar Brian Skyrms Quentin Smith Elliott Sober Wolfgang Stegmüller Kim Sterelny David Stove Patrick Suppes Claudine Tiercelin Roberto Torretti Gerard Verschuuren John Worrall v t e Philosophy of science Concepts Analysis Analytic–synthetic distinction A priori and a posteriori Causality Commensurability Consilience Construct Creative synthesis Demarcation problem Empirical evidence Explanatory power Fact Falsifiability Feminist method Functional contextualism Ignoramus et ignorabimus Inductive reasoning Intertheoretic reduction Inquiry Nature Objectivity Observation Paradigm Problem of induction Scientific law Scientific method Scientific revolution Scientific theory Testability Theory choice Theory-ladenness Underdetermination Unity of science Metatheory of science Coherentism Confirmation holism Constructive empiricism Constructive realism Constructivist epistemology Contextualism Conventionalism Deductive-nomological model Hypothetico-deductive model Inductionism Epistemological anarchism Evolutionism Fallibilism Foundationalism Instrumentalism Pragmatism Model-dependent realism Naturalism Physicalism Positivism / Reductionism / Determinism Rationalism / Empiricism Received view / Semantic view of theories Scientific realism / Anti-realism Scientific essentialism Scientific formalism Scientific skepticism Scientism Structuralism Uniformitarianism Vitalism Philosophy of Physics thermal and statistical Motion Chemistry Biology Geography Social science Technology Engineering Artificial intelligence Computer science Information Mind Psychiatry Psychology Perception Space and time Related topics Alchemy Criticism of science Descriptive science Epistemology Faith and rationality Hard and soft science History and philosophy of science History of science History of evolutionary thought Logic Metaphysics Normative science Pseudoscience Relationship between religion and science Rhetoric of science Science studies Sociology of scientific knowledge Sociology of scientific ignorance Philosophers of science by era Ancient Plato Aristotle Stoicism Epicureans Medieval Averroes Avicenna Roger Bacon William of Ockham Hugh of Saint Victor Dominicus Gundissalinus Robert Kilwardby Early modern Francis Bacon Thomas Hobbes René Descartes Galileo Galilei Pierre Gassendi Isaac Newton David Hume Late modern Immanuel Kant Friedrich Schelling William Whewell Auguste Comte John Stuart Mill Herbert Spencer Wilhelm Wundt Charles Sanders Peirce Wilhelm Windelband Henri Poincaré Pierre Duhem Rudolf Steiner Karl Pearson Contemporary Alfred North Whitehead Bertrand Russell Albert Einstein Otto Neurath C. D. Broad Michael Polanyi Hans Reichenbach Rudolf Carnap Karl Popper Carl Gustav Hempel W. V. O. Quine Thomas Kuhn Imre Lakatos Paul Feyerabend Jürgen Habermas Ian Hacking Bas van Fraassen Larry Laudan Daniel Dennett Category  Philosophy portal  Science portal Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_philosophers_of_science&oldid=982697147" Categories: Lists of philosophers Philosophers of science Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Français हिन्दी Bahasa Indonesia Português کوردی Edit links This page was last edited on 9 October 2020, at 19:20 (UTC). 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