Does science need philosophy? I have no doubts it does. I would be personally very happy if the trained philosophers practically assist the scientists in their research oriented on the exploration of the Land of Unknown. Apparently this kind of assistance is not practiced widely, at least I cannot give a single example after being active nearly 20 years in the field of astroparticle physics.
How do we make choices on the scientific cross-roads we face? Are we brave enough in asking our scientific questions? How sure are we about our foundations – how many undiscovered mistakes or bad practices weakens our best efforts towards understanding the Nature? These example topics are closely related with the efficiency of scientific research but again I can not give an example of taking them seriously by fellow scientists. I was also not taught anything like that, neither in the university, nor during my PhD studies or later, have you?
Maybe the above issues are even more than topics? When you think deeper you might tend to have a feeling that to perform our best on the way to discoveries we need a support from the experts in yet non-existing disciplines: choicology, questiology, errology, … . In any case I have no doubt that more special training in discoverology could be helpful.
How to develop Discovery Thinking methods? Can one get trained on making scientific discoveries? I’m trying to approach the challenge with a series of mini lectures given during the weekly meetings of the Incubator of Scientific Discoveries. (ION: Inkubator Odkryć Naukowych). If you are not (yet) a member of ION you are welcome to see and criticize the slides in the posting area of this website.
You are not less welcome to my article addressing the above concerns: Introuduction to Dicoverology, (https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06235)