Magnani & Agazzi's Comparison of Philosophy of Science

PHILOSOPHERSThe Two Chosen

Italian Philosopher of 21st Century

LORENZO MAGNANI

EVANDRO AGAZZI

LORENZO MAGNANI philosopher and cognitive

scientist

currently directs international research programs in the EU, USA, and China

He has taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology and at The City University of

New York.

professor at the University of Pavia, Italy

A visiting professor at the Sun Yat-sen University, Canton (Guangzhou), China.

director of its Computational Philosophy Laboratory.

EVANDRO AGAZZIItalian philosopher

previously served as president of the Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science, the Italian

Philosophical Society, and the Swiss Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science. He served as treasurer of

the International Council for Philosophy and Humanities of UNESCO.

currently president of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science

professor at the University of Genoa

visiting professor at the University of Düsseldorf, the University of Berne, the University of Pittsburgh, Stanford University, and the University of Geneva

He is a graduate of the University of Milan

VENN DIAGRAMFor the two philosopher’s 

endeavors

- PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE- Logic

-Philosophy of geometry

LORENZO MAGNANI

- cognitive science, - artificial intelligence,-philosophy of medicine

- ABDUCTIVE REASONING

EVANDRO MAGNANI

- ethics of science & technology,

- metaphysics,- philosophy of

language,- philosophical

anthropology,- systems theory

- philosophy of nature- SCIENTIFIC REALISM

FIELDS OF ENDEAVOR

COMPARISON OF THE

PHILOSOPHER’S IDEAS

On Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of Science 

According to Magnani

 is concerned with the assumptions, foundations, 

methods, implications of science, and with the use and merit of science. This 

discipline sometimes overlaps metaphysics and epistemology, viz., when it explores whether scientific results comprise a study 

of truth

According to Agazzi

philosophy of science, accepting in it also an axiology of science that could enable us to retain the cognitive value of science and at the same time to make techno-scientific activity 

compatible with the satisfaction of a great variety 

of values that inspire our societies.

Philosophy of Science 

PHILOSOPHER’S IDEALS

Ideals and its Focus

Lorenzo Magnani Evandro Agazzi

ABDUCTIVE REASONINGis a form of logical 

inference that goes from data description of something to a 

hypothesis that accounts for the reliable data and seeks to explain relevant 

evidence

SCIENTIFIC REALISM

he characterizes the scientific objectivity and 

the defense of a "scientific realism“ is  

based on a deepening of the notions of reference 

and truth, with its implications of ontological type

There views are almost the same, 

because it requires TRUE EVIDENCES and REFERENCES in order for them to 

achieve a deepened and 

reliable outcome.

Prepared by: -Jillian May R. Peralta -III- H BSE Social Studies-Specific Reasoning-Prof. Tessie Tapiador - Sagadraca

Quiz no. 3 – January 07, 2013