what are methods  used for the science research in terms of philosophy?e.g. positivism,and what else?
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Wikipedia "Philosophy of Science" gives a better introduction than I ever could.
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It dosent matter what it is about, Its it you can use the scientific method correctly. ask you teacher to help you. And don't be afraid to ask. P.S. I've won 2 science fairs 2nd and 3rd Prize.
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Depends on what you mean.  Philosophical in what sense?  The human condition?  Theology?  Analyzation of an epiphany?  So much source material, so little time.\n\nHeck, I could give you a 5-hour philosophical discussion on the joys of sex and chocolate, but somehow I don't think that's what your philosophy class is looking for.
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Observe\nHypothesize\nCheck\nRevise Hypothesis\nRepeat\n\nThat is how we created all the rest of our knowledge, it is how we could re-create it if all other knowledge were lost
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I try to have my student teachers use exploratorium with their students.  Check the link below.\n\n-college science methods teacher trainer
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Not much;  quantum mechanics is pretty much taken for granted (by physicists, NOT philosophers!) as the framework of almost all of modern physics (but gravity's another story...).  In that sense almost all physics research these days is "quantum" physics.  However, there is still some interesting work being done with phenomena that are distinctly quantum mechanical, such as Bose-Einstein condensation, quantum entanglement, and the like.\n\nI'd just like to point out that in the past 100 years since quantum mechanics was "born", no experiment has been performed whose results are not consistent with quantum mechanics.
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First of all you should refer to some text book on "Research Methodology". Here you will get a clear idea of what you are getting into.  \nSome areas of research can be Genetic Algorithms in Statistics, multivariable calculus, graph theoritic applications in statistics.
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The Scientific Method\nby Anthony Carpi, Ph.D.\n\nA common misperception of science is that science defines "truth." Science does not define truth; rather, it defines a way of thought. It is a process in which experiments are used to answer questions. This process is called the scientific method and involves several steps:\n\n   1. Observation: The first step of the scientific method takes place when an observation is made regarding some event or characteristic of the world. This observation might lead to a question regarding the event or characteristic. For example, you might drop a glass of water one day and observe it crashing to the floor near your feet. This observation might lead you to ask a question, "Why did the glass fall?"\n   2. Hypothesis:In attempting to answer the question, a scientist will form a hypothesis (or some would say a guess) regarding the question's answer. In our example there are many possible hypotheses, but one hypothesis might be that an invisible force (gravity) pulled the glass to the floor.\n   3. Experimentation: Of all the steps in the scientific method, the one that truly separates science from other disciplines is the process of experimentation. In order to prove, or disprove, a hypothesis, a scientist will design an experiment to test the hypothesis. Over the centuries, many experiments have been designed to study the nature of gravity.\nhttp://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?c3=&mid=45&l=\n\nLegal methodology is basicly the bare facts.  The facts that do not have to be scientificly analysed.  Fingerprints, although have to be collected scientificly, are bare facts for instance.  The blood on the knife that killed the victim would be classed as legal methodology due to it being a fact that it was there at the scene of the crime and didn't need to be collected using scientific methods.\nI hope this helps
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Science is field of study that attempts to describe the universe (or some part of it) in terms of observable patterns, and to formulate rules from those patterns that have a predictive value.\n\nTechnology is the name given to the useful (and sometimes not so useful) products developed as a result of scientific endeavour.
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Science (from Latin scientifko - knowledge)
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This is a good site on how to do research.\nhttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/index.html
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Science (from Latin scientia - knowledge) refers to the system of acquiring knowledge – based on empiricism, experimentation, and methodological naturalism. The term science also refers to the organized body of knowledge humans have gained by such research.\n\nMost scientists maintain that scientific investigation must adhere to the scientific method, a process for evaluating empirical knowledge under the working assumption of methodological materialism, which explains observable events in nature as a result of natural causes, rejecting supernatural notions. Less formally, the word science often describes any systematic field of study or the knowledge gained from it. Particular specialized studies that make use of empirical methods are often referred to as sciences as well. This article concentrates on the more specific definition.\n\nFields of science are commonly classified along two major lines:\n\n    * Natural sciences, the study of the natural phenomena including biology;\n    * Social sciences, the systematic study of human behavior and society.
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any of various methods, theories that have no scientific basis. such as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance,
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It is a 7 letter word.\n\n#\n\n   1. The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.\n   2. Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.\n   3. Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study.\n\n# Methodological activity, discipline, or study: I've got packing a suitcase down to a science.\n# An activity that appears to require study and method: the science of purchasing.\n# Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.
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The scientific method is the generally accepted method to investigate anything while maintaining the ability to reasonably state that you accomplished what you were looking to do. For a simple example, if you had 12 people drink a gallon of milk everyday for a month, and measured their weight at the beginning and end of the month, you would just have the data of those people with nothing to compare it to. Part of the scientific method, that of maintaining the validity of your information, would be to have had another group of twelve people who drank no milk during the month, and then report the results as the milk drinkers versus the non-milk drinkers. Further, to be employing the "scientific method," you would make sure all the milk drinkers had the same kind of milk, and control for all kinds of other things during this comparison, such as that all of one group were not running in a marathon during the month. Making sure results clearly show what they should, and that you did everything you could to design and conduct any comparison or experiment properly.
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Steps of the scientific method\n\n1.  Name the problem or question\n\n2.  Form an educated guess (hypothesis)\n     of the cause of the problem and make\n     predictions based upon the hypothesis\n\n 3.  Test your hypothesis by doing an\n     experiment or study (with proper controls)\n\n 4.  Check and interpret your results\n\n 5.  Report your results to the scientific\n     community
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Scientific methodology and evidence.