Abstract
What relevance - if any - does philosophy of science have for science education? Unfortunately, this question has been largely unexplored. To be sure a great deal has been written on the philosophy of science; perhaps even more has been written in science education. However, surprisingly little has been written on the relation between the two areas. In this paper I will suggest some ways in which philosophy of science can have relevance for science education.Before one considers how philosophy of science can have relevance to science education it is important to consider what is meant by ‘philosophy of science’. Some contemporary philosophers of science have distinguished two different approaches to philosophy of science: analytic and speculative. However in recent years a view of the philosophy of science has become popular that does not seem easily to fit into either the analytic or speculative categories.
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