Our ability to fully and reliably observe and simulate the terrestrial hydrologic cycle is limited,
and in‐depth experimental studies cover only a tiny fraction of our landscape. On medieval …

What is scientific progress? The answer is simple. Science (or some particular scientific field
or theory) makes progress precisely when it shows the accumulation of scientific knowledge; …

Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an
instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has fallen out of favour because historically …

Scientists are constantly making observations, carrying out experiments, and analyzing
empirical data. Meanwhile, scientific theories are routinely being adopted, revised …

Purpose This paper aims to demonstrating that the former new institutional theory of
isomorphism and decoupling cannot be extended, modified or refuted as it is a closed …

What constitutes cognitive scientific progress? This Element begins with an extensive survey
of the contemporary debate on how to answer this question. It provides a blow-by-blow …

Epistemic diversity is the ability or possibility of producing diverse and rich epistemic
apparati to make sense of the world around us. In this paper we discuss whether, and to …

Scientific realists use the “no miracle argument” to show that the empirical and pragmatic
success of science is an indicator of the ability of scientific theories to give true or truthlike …

Thomas Kuhn (1922–96), although trained a physicist at Harvard University, became a
historical philosopher of science through the influence and support of Harvard's president …

There is an ongoing methodological debate in philosophy of science concerning the use of
case studies as evidence for and/or against theories about science. In this paper, I aim to …