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This is a review of Radosław Kazibut's book Filozofia przyrody i przyrodoznawstwa Roberta Boyle'a. Filozoficzna geneza nauki laboratoryjnej (Robert Boyle's Philosophy of Nature and Natural Science: The Philosophical Origins of Laboratory Research), in which I highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed approach. On the one hand, I appreciate the author's effort to examine the origin of the laboratory style of research, which is found in Boyle's studies, as a basis for a novel approach to the problem of the relationship between philosophy and science. On the other hand, I am critical of the fact that the author has overlooked several issues relating to the subject matter which, in the context of the topics addressed in the book, should be recognized as relevant. The characterization of the laboratory sciences presented in the book is too selective as it ignores the problem of the undesirable products of the laboratory sciences as well as their increasingly practical character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a review of Radosław Kazibut's book Filozofia przyrody i przyrodoznawstwa Roberta Boyle'a. Filozoficzna geneza nauki laboratoryjnej (Robert Boyle's Philosophy of Nature and Natural Science: The Philosophical Origins of Laboratory Research), in which I highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed approach. On the one hand, I appreciate the author's effort to examine the origin of the laboratory style of research, which is found in Boyle's studies, as a basis for a novel approach to the problem of the relationship between philosophy and science. On the other hand, I am critical of the fact that the author has overlooked several issues relating to the subject matter which, in the context of the topics addressed in the book, should be recognized as relevant. The characterization of the laboratory sciences presented in the book is too selective as it ignores the problem of the undesirable products of the laboratory sciences as well as their increasingly practical character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a list of the elements that constitute the "epistemic frame of reference" for research practice in laboratory science. Reflection on the philosophical and methodological assumptions of laboratory science plays a significant role in the investigations on the origin and nature of scientific knowledge. Analysis of the specific research carried out in this discipline of natural science will help to some extent to have a broader look at a number of classical problems raised in the philosophy of nature and the philosophy of natural science. "Epistemic frame of reference for laboratory science" characterized in light of the concepts proposed by Ian Hacking will also shed light on the main assumptions of the philosophy of chemistry of Paweł Zeidler and the "grammar of laboratory sciences research practice" of Hasoka Chang. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]