Chapter XXXII: The Laws Of Philosophy Of Science | The Philosophy Of Science by Steven Gussman [1st Edition]
“In the demon haunted world world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.” – Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan I It is fashionable to claim that one cannot place limits on scientific inquiry and that anyone who tries is doomed to fail—that the scientific project is irreducibly stumbled-upon, with no hard-and-fast laws that must be abided. II This is nonsense; of course the epistemology of science is a normative theory! It is true that our knowledge of epistemology evolves over time. III It is also true that this means that even epistemological knowledge is provisional (though I contend that it is necessarily much firmer than the bodies of knowledge it supports). But both of those arguments are true of our knowledge of any topic; t...