Philosophy of science is NORMATIVE because it aims to determine whether the methods scientists use, and the conclusions they draw using those methods, are

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MCQs on the origins and development of modern science and how that is distinguished from pseudo-science; the importance of deduction and induction and their separate methodologies; the process of the scientific method; scientific change and scientific revolutions, particularly that of Thomas Kuhn; and selected philosophical problems in the basic sciences, such as absolute space, biological classification, the modular mind, and recent discoveries of neuroscience.
 


Philosophy of science is NORMATIVE because it aims to determine whether the methods scientists use, and the conclusions they draw using those methods, are