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<p>Create/expand category description</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>This category collects work on the &#039;&#039;&#039;philosophy, method and sociology of science&#039;&#039;&#039; — what makes a theory scientific, what counts as evidence, and how scientific communities actually behave.<br /> <br /> The subject has particular weight on this wiki, since researchers working outside the mainstream have both a practical and an intellectual stake in it. Recurring themes include: the demand that physical models be &#039;&#039;&#039;causal&#039;&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;&#039;physical&#039;&#039;&#039; rather than purely mathematical; the complaint that mathematical formalism has displaced physical understanding; &#039;&#039;&#039;falsifiability&#039;&#039;&#039; and the observation that nothing in science is ever proven, only corroborated so far; Kuhn&#039;s account of paradigms and of the assumptions that go unexamined because they seem obviously true; the role of consensus and its limits as evidence; and first-hand accounts of how peer review, funding and publication operate for dissenting work.<br /> <br /> Readers should note that arguments in this category can cut both ways: a strict falsificationism applies as forcefully to the alternatives proposed here as to the theories they oppose. See also [[:Category:Philosophy]].<br /> <br /> [[Category:Philosophy]]</div>

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