I'm interested in deepening my knowledge about the philosophy of science.
I'm now a real full time researcher and I find it shameful that I know so little about science.
I have read Popper and Khun.
Do you have advices on what else I should read?
@zillion
Thanks, I'll take a look
Any book in particular?
@rastinza Feyerabend, Against Method. Truesdell, A Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics. Harding, The Science Question in Feminism.
Hempel, Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science.
@rastinza I read a lot of Nelson Goodman. He creates a symbol theory that takes into account both art and science. See e.g. "Ways of Worldmaking" which is also available from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/GoodmanWaysOfWorldmaking
@rastinza Not sure if this is your interest, but I found STS very interesting. it is maybe a bit too empirical, but raises important epistemological questions.
@shusha
What is STS?
@rastinza science and technologs studies is an field of inquiry into science (later extended to technology) as social and cultural shaped production of knowledge. It started in the 1960ies around social movements, started asking question like: who actually is doing science? How is this shaping what is subject to sience, of what can be known and what is not known? Later this developed into other questions: how exactly is science done? The work of Bruno Latour is important here.
STS has many aspects, and it has born many new concepts like the idea of «situated knowledge» (Donna Haraway), and «agential materialism» (Karen Barad).
The nice thing about STS is for me, that it is at the same time very empirical, philosophical, and political.
@shusha
Thanks! I'll take a look.
@rastinza
I would suggest to add Nicholas Maxwell to the list:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/from-knowledge-to-wisdom/aboutme
E.g. his "What's Wrong With Science?"
@rastinza Hempel, Feyerabend, Truesdell, Harding.