Philosophy in science: Can philosophers of science permeate through science and produce scientific knowledge?

T Pradeu, M Lemoine, M Khelfaoui… - The British Journal for …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
Most philosophers of science do philosophy 'on'science. By contrast, others do philosophy
'in'science (PinS), that is, they use philosophical tools to address scientific problems and to …

Modeling and corpus methods in experimental philosophy

L Chartrand - Philosophy Compass, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Research in experimental philosophy has increasingly been turning to corpus methods to
produce evidence for empirical claims, as they open up new possibilities for testing linguistic …

Digital literature analysis for empirical philosophy of science

OM Lean, L Rivelli, CH Pence - The British Journal for the …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Empirical philosophers of science aim to base their philosophical theories on observations
of scientific practice. But since there is far too much science to observe it all, how can we …

Humanistic interpretation and machine learning

J Pääkkönen, P Ylikoski - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
This paper investigates how unsupervised machine learning methods might make
hermeneutic interpretive text analysis more objective in the social sciences. Through a close …

The visibility of philosophy of science in the sciences, 1980–2018

M Khelfaoui, Y Gingras, M Lemoine, T Pradeu - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, we provide a macro level analysis of the visibility of philosophy of science in
the sciences over the last four decades. Our quantitative analysis of publications and …

Twenty years of experimental philosophy research

J Li, X Zhu - Metaphilosophy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reports the first study in the literature that adopts a bibliometric approach to
systematically explore the scholarship in the young and fast‐growing research field of …

Eight journals over eight decades: a computational topic-modeling approach to contemporary philosophy of science

C Malaterre, F Lareau, D Pulizzotto, J St-Onge - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
As a discipline of its own, the philosophy of science can be traced back to the founding of its
academic journals, some of which go back to the first half of the twentieth century. While the …

Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine: A topic‐modeling study

P Bystranowski, V Dranseika, T Żuradzki - Bioethics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Topic modeling—a text‐mining technique often used to uncover thematic structures in large
collections of texts—has been increasingly frequently used in the context of the analysis of …

The early days of contemporary philosophy of science: Novel insights from machine translation and topic-modeling of non-parallel multilingual corpora

C Malaterre, F Lareau - Synthese, 2022 - Springer
Topic model is a well proven tool to investigate the semantic content of textual corpora. Yet
corpora sometimes include texts in several languages, making it impossible to apply …

Revisiting three decades of Biology and Philosophy: a computational topic-modeling perspective

C Malaterre, D Pulizzotto, F Lareau - Biology & Philosophy, 2020 - Springer
Though only established as a discipline since the 1970s, philosophy of biology has already
triggered investigations about its own history (eg, Grene and Depew in The philosophy of …