The Journal for General Philosophy of Science (also Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie) is an

academic journal An academic journal (or scholarly journal or scientific journal) is a periodical publication in which Scholarly method, scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. They serve as permanent and transparent forums for the ...

publishing contributions from all areas of

philosophy of science Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions are the difference between science and non-science, the reliability of scientific theories, ...

and about all philosophical topics relevant to the

sciences Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

and the

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...

. Particular interest is focused on the discussion of methodological aspects that contribute to our understanding of science in general, the interactions and interdependences between the

natural sciences Natural science or empirical science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer ...

and the humanities, and the history of philosophy of science from antiquity to the 20th century. For the most part, the publications are research articles. Smaller sections are devoted to discussions of current topics, reports on conferences, countries and special topics, as well as to book reviews. The journal was founded by Alwin Diemer, Lutz Geldsetzer and Gert König. It first appeared in 1970 under the heading ''Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie / Journal for General Philosophy of Science'' with Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden. Since 1990, the Journal has been published under the present heading by Kluwer Academic Publishers (now:

Springer Science+Business Media Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Originally founded in 1842 in ...

). Since 2017, the editors are Claus Beisbart (

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), Helmut Pulte (

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) and Thomas Reydon (

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* Springer Science+Business Media academic journals Philosophy of science journals {{science-philo-journal-stub

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