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"Epistemology" is probably the best word.

• lbhnact 10y ago
  Yeah, maybe 'Quantitative Epistemology'. You'd probably be thrown right out of the Philosophy department though.
  • marcosdumay 10y ago
    Isn't the goal exactly getting thrown out of every department?
  • johncolanduoni 10y ago
    Not really, many people who do philosophy of science/math have science/math PhDs as opposed to philosophy or other humanities.
  • fmoralesc 10y ago
    Only the name, the idea not at all. Formal Epistemology is actually a blooming subfield, Bayesian epistemology being a prominent example.
• pYQAJ6Zm 10y ago
  Noting that epistemology is concerned with the study of (the concept of) knowledge, and may (in principle) go beyond what’s involved in the purely scientific acquisition of such (if some non-scientific method for the acquisition of knowledge is to be accepted). “Philosophy of science,” already mentioned, is probably a better fit. Once you go meta on science, after all, you are (arguably) not doing science anymore, so there is no harm in naming it a kind of philosophy.