Since the rise of modern science in the seventeenth century, philosophy has suffered from a need for legitimation. If it is science that provides us with our advanced knowledge of the world, what role is there left for philosophy? Several answers have been given. One answer is that of Wittgenstein. Philosophy is not in the knowledge business at all. In a world in which no one misused language, ...

Kluge's (2001, Syst. Biol. 50:322-330) continued arguments that phylogenetic methods based on the statistical principle of likelihood are incompatible with the philosophy of science described by Karl Popper are based on false premises related to Kluge's misrepresentations of Popper's philosophy. Contrary to Kluge's conjectures, likelihood methods are not inherently verificationist; they do not ...

In this paper, I describe some strategies for teaching an introductory philosophy of science course to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) students, with reference my own experience a in the Fall 2020. The most important strategy that advocate is what call “Second Philosophy” approach, according which instructors ought emphasize problems concern philosophers are not manufac...

Philosophy of science is positioned to make distinctive contributions to cognitive science by providing perspective on its conceptual foundations and by advancing normative recommendations. The philosophy of science I embrace is naturalistic in that it is grounded in the study of actual science. Focusing on explanation, I describe the recent development of a mechanistic philosophy of science fr...