I advise reading of Gaston Bachelard, Imre Lakatos, Wolfgang Stegmüller, even Paul Feyerabend or Francis Bacon, Kant, or taking a few classes : https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/students/ma/index.html. In all philosophy the topics appear again. You could even cite Plato. Science has never consisted only of hypothesis-driven research, it has always occupied the vast space of epistemology.