Synthese publishes articles in the theory of knowledge, the general methodological problems of science, such as the problems of scientific discovery and scientific interest, of induction and probability, of causation and of the role of mathematics, statistics and logic in science, the methodological and foundational problems of the different departmental sciences, insofar as they have philosophical interest, those aspects of symbolic logic and of the foundations of mathematics which are relevant to the philosophy and methodology of science, and those facets of the history and sociology of science which are important for contemporary topical pursuits.

Particular attention is paid to the role of mathematical, logical and linguistic methods in the general methodology of science and the foundations of the different sciences, be they physical, biological, behavioral or social. Most of the issues of Synthese are organized into thematic issues, taking the character of symposia dealing with described themes.

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