The Quest for Scientific Rationality: Some Historical Considerations

摘要: These are indeed exciting times for the philosophy of science. With decline logical empiricism practitioners have spread themselves over a wide range alternatives, resuscitating, in process, philosophies that positivists had condemned to netherworld obscurantism and irrationality. Hence objection new look is merely facelift or, more seriously, charge rationality has been abandoned pre-rational, a-rational or irrational modes thought. But while it may be true science can no longer described justified as body established knowledge, death-knell positivism need not toll such. Where one brand failed, another thrive.