The philosophical examination of the philosophy of science itself—stepping back to ask what philosophy of science is doing, what its methods are, how it changes over time, and what counts as progress within it. Metaphilosophy doesn't ask "what is science?" but "what are we doing when we ask what science is?" It's the discipline's self-reflection, its attempt to understand its own assumptions, its own ghosts, its own history. For those who find philosophy of science interesting, metaphilosophy is where you go when you find philosophy of science's assumptions interesting too.
"You're arguing about whether Kuhn was right about paradigms. But Scientific Metaphilosophy asks: why are we still using Kuhn's framework to have this argument? What does it mean that we organize philosophy of science around his categories? Who benefits from this way of thinking about thinking about science?"
by Abzugal February 23, 2026
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