Galaxies Collide: Just added Science Blogs to a new Science subject at World University and School

Just added Science Blogs (http://scienceblogs.com/) to a new Science subject at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Science - in addition to all the 'Science' subjects on the WUaS Subjects' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects



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At World University and School, there are a LOT of Science subjects: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Science#Select_World_University_and_School_Wiki_Pages



Here are the current Science subjects at World University and School:


Animal Behavior: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Animal_Behavior

Astronomy: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Astronomy

Astrophysics: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Astrophysics

Biochemistry: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Biochemistry

Biological Anthropology: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Biological_Anthropology

Biological Engineering: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Biological_Engineering

Biology: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Biology

Biomedical Engineering: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Biomedical_Engineering

Botany: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Botany

Brain and Cognitive Sciences: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences

Cancer Biology: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Cancer_Biology

Chemical Engineering: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Chemical_Engineering

Chemistry: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Chemistry

Computer Science: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Science

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Earth,_Atmospheric,_and_Planetary_Sciences

Ecology: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ecology

Electrical Engineering: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Electrical_Engineering

Engineering: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Engineering

Entomology:

Environmental Science:

Evolution subject: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Evolution

Evolutionary Biology: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Evolutionary_Biology

Genetics: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Genetics

Geology: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Geology

Health Sciences: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Health_Sciences

Health Sciences and Technology: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Health_Sciences_and_Technology

Materials Science: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Materials_Science

Medicine: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Medicine

Neurobiology: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Neurobiology

Nuclear Science and Engineering: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nuclear_Science_and_Engineering

Organic Chemistry: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Organic_Chemistry

Oceanography: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Oceanography

Pharmacology: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pharmacology

Philosophy of Science: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Philosophy_of_Science

Physics: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Physics

Plant Evolution: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Plant_Evolution

Primatology: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Primatology

Quantum Physics: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quantum_Physics

Research: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research

Robotics: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Robotics

(Science: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Science)

Society, Technology and Science: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Society,_Technology_and_Science

Space: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Space

Veterinary Medicine: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Veterinary_Medicine

Zoology:



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The WUaS subjects I didn't add with science in their name are


Library Science

Media Science

Political Science


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To reflect, after having posted these science subjects above, why I chose them as science, has to do with all of them focusing on natural phenomena which involve approaches to knowledge involving systemization, categorization, replicability, predictability ...


What about Ian Hackings' concerns about contingency, metaphysics, and stability in his book "The Social Construction of What?" (Harvard 1999)?

I see the above subjects as offering more stable approaches to knowledge, less-ambiguous-metaphysics-than, say, social sciences, and more enwebbed metaphysics (both correlation and correspondent theories of truth), which is not to say that the vagaries of language are not important in thinking about science in these terms.


In defining science, for World University and School, with these subjects, I think I also take a pragmatists' approach, recognizing there will always be disagreement about what science is, as well as how to define it. I would also engage the "Oxford Companion to Philosophy" (2005) entries.











(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/12/galaxies-collide-ust-added-science.html - December 16, 2010)