id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_kpzhv3bfnvbyffbvzbwemegjma Kostas Kampourakis Empirical Philosophy of Science 2019 3 .pdf application/pdf 1118 86 41 the study of concepts has a central place in philosophy of science. philosophy, such as the limits of empirical inquiry and the status of conceptual analysis. Empirical philosophy of science looks into the actual conceptualizations and practices of Philosophers of science can have several interests when analyzing scientific concepts, such as conducting empirical research during which scientists define and apply concepts (Machery, 2016). evolutionary biologists' explicit conceptualization and actual use of "gene" concepts shows that philosophical assumptions about the meanings of concepts may differ significantly from Many science educators are very well familiar with research in conceptual development and conceptual understanding, and can thus conduct the research that would be necessary for empirical Empirical concept analysis could thus become a domain where philosophy of science and How biologists conceptualize genes: an empirical study. What concept analysis in philosophy of science should be (and why competing philosophical analyses of gene concepts cannot be tested by polling scientists). ./cache/work_kpzhv3bfnvbyffbvzbwemegjma.pdf ./txt/work_kpzhv3bfnvbyffbvzbwemegjma.txt