Index
Science is exemplified by particular sciences that systematically investigate features of the world with the tools and methods appropriate to their subjects. Below is a growing index of the many disciplines and topics covered here at Science & Culture Today.
Science
Metascience
- Methods
- heuristics
- scientific method
- Scientific Trustworthiness
- challenges
- discarded theories
- fact checks
- persistent scientific errors
- perverse incentives
Culture
Philosophy
- Philosophy of Science
- demarcation
- defining terms
- laws of nature
- realism
- antirealism
- constructivism
- instrumentalism
- pragmatism
- theory
- explanatory power
- observability
- replicability
- reproducibility
- simplicity
- key figures
- Metaphysics
- agency
- Ontology
- monism (materialism, idealism)
- dualism
- emergence, emergent properties
- Mereology (parts and wholes)
- identity
- platonism
- reductionism
- simulation theory
- universals
- Philosophy of Mind / soul
- God
- causation
- Epistemology
- theories of knowledge
- Phenomenology
- consciousness
- illusion
- qualia
- secondary qualities
- scientism and technocracy
- truth
- epistemic virtues and vices
- closed-mindedness
- critical thinking
- curiosity
- dialogue
- discernment
- gullibility
- intellectual humility, hubris
- magical thinking
- open-mindedness
- perseverance
- prejudice
- rigor
- truth seeking
- wishful thinking
- key figures
- Logic and Rhetoric
- debates
- principles of logic
- a priori, a posterior
- defeaters
- induction, deduction
- law of identity
- law of non-contradiction
- law of excluded middle
- reductio ad absurdum
- Fallacies
- ad hominem
- appeal to authority
- appeal to emotion
- argument from ignorance
- begging the question
- category error
- causal circularity
- citation bluffing
- confirmation bias
- definist fallacy
- equivocation
- firing squad fallacy
- hectoring
- inverse gambler’s fallacy
- no true Scotsman
- sharpshooter fallacy
- stereotyping
- straw man
- suppressed evidence