By creating new knowledge and applying this knowledge to technology, medicine, and social institution models, we can see just how science impacts our lives today in unprecedented ways. As philosophers, we seek to understand the processes to create knowledge, their applications, provide normative assessments regarding scientific and technological progress as well as models of the good society, and develop strategies to improve the role science plays as part of democracies.

The Institute of Philosophy und Scientific Method (ISPM) at the Johannes Kepler University Linz is a research and educational department at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Business & Economic.
Our research focuses on the philosophy of science, opens an external URL in a new window, particularly the philosophy of social and economic sciences, opens an external URL in a new window, the philosophy of medicine, opens an external URL in a new window; the role of science in society, opens an external URL in a new window; and political economy, opens an external URL in a new window, and especially on the interaction between political, social, and economic institutions. A core interest is understanding interaction between recent developments in the sciences, including the social sciences and medical research, and society.

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