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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
Okay, I've closed this for the time being so we can focus on content, sourcing and then copyediting. I figure if there is overwhelming consensus to revisit layout, then that can be done way down the track. So time to shift focus elsewhere. Casliber (talk · contribs) 07:42, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Etymology, History and Philosophy

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Etymology of Science

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History of Science

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  • Needham's Grand Question
    Formulations
    1. Why didn't science arise in China? -- Falsified by Lu Gwei-djen's dad in 1930s & afterward
    2. Why didn't scientific method arise in China? -- somewhat justified by POV of Taoism
    3. Why didn't science and civilization recover as fast in the Ming dynasty (Needham calls Ming science 'decadent'. The Ming came after the Mongols -- the Yuan dynasty) as compared to Europe of the same epoch
    4. Fara's version, p.53 'the Needham problem' Why didn't the mathematical natural science happening during European Renaissance also occur in China?
    5. Fara's version (p.54) of Nathan Sivin's answer to 'Needham problem': China's feudal society had not evolved mercantile capitalism, as was occurring in Europe at that time.
      NB: Needham was 94 by the time of his last contributions to 1995 SCC 7.2, having expended his life falsifying the question. I find SCC 7.2 to be a repetitive shadow of the SCC volumes from 50 years earlier.
    6. Fara's restatement (p.54) of 'Needham problem': "How did European activities lead to the form of science that now dominates the entire world?"
      NB see the graphs in 7.2 which shows how soon China's science integrated with rest of world's science. Chinese medicine, in particular has not yet integrated, in Needham's graphs.
    Fara, Patricia (2009) Science : a four thousand year history Oxford: Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-922689-4 pp.53-54. See entire chapter, "China", as well as Notes, and Sources --Ancheta Wis (talk) 19:43, 19 October 2011 (UTC), and 01:27, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pre-modern Science

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  • Ancient Near East
  • Greek world
  • India
  • China
  • Islamic world
  • Medieval Europe

Modern Science

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  • Early Modern Europe
  • Modern Science (In text links to disciplinary histories)

Philosophy

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  • The concept of natural law, and the nature of truth
  • Critique of the possibility of the above (Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend)

Deductive science

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  • Formal deduction
  • Limits of deduction (Russell, Godel)
  • Contemporary responses

Inductive science

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  • Induction
  • Arguments against induction (Hume)
  • Positivism (Popper; Durkheim)
  • Constructivist approaches (Kuhn, Lakatos; ?Habermas, ?Foucault)
  • Anything that pops up in field review articles from the last 20 years of Philosophy of Science journals we haven't got

Scientific practice

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Research program

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Mathematics and formal sciences

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  • Proof
  • Completeness
  • Internal consistency

Scientific method

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Theory and Hypothesis

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  • Prediction as compared with
  • Explanation

Test, Experiment, Observation

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Analysis

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Research reporting and peer review

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Scientific community

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Branches and fields

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Institutions

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  • Learned societies
  • Research councils
  • Academic journals

Literature

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Women in science

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Science and society

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Science and Technology

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Science policy

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Politics and public perception of science

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Media perspectives

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Pseudoscience, fringe science, and junk science

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