id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_2hpu5xwrcvhexktisz4f2dob3m Bruce Edmonds A Brief Survey of Some Relevant Philosophy of Science 2011 7 .pdf application/pdf 4559 361 61 This briefly reviews some philosophy of science that might be relevant to simulating the social processes of science. Philosophy, Science, Simulation, Social Processes, Evolutionary Models, Sociology 1.1 The Philosophy of Science has not been a natural "bedfellow" of social simulation. somewhat arbitrary selection of philosophers and seeks to summarise what they have suggested about the processes of science. science and his approach fits in well with later descriptive philosophers like Kuhn or Giere so I include him here. 8.1 Donald Campbell considered how creativity was possible both in cognitive and social terms and formed a model of this process 14.1 The Strong programme sought to apply qualitative sociological methods, to case studies of Science in practice (e.g. Latour and 19.2 As you can see from this short survey, philosophers have only just touched on the possible social processes of science, mainly ./cache/work_2hpu5xwrcvhexktisz4f2dob3m.pdf ./txt/work_2hpu5xwrcvhexktisz4f2dob3m.txt