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In his review of Philip Kitcher's book "Science, Truth, and Democracy" (Jan.
"Science, Truth, and Democracy" is an outstandingly good book; it flashes with the steel of reason.
"Facts, science, truth seem to be significantly absent from what we call our political dialogue," he said.
Perhaps the relevant government officials should be enrolled in Philosophy 101 and kept there until they can follow every move in "Science, Truth, and Democracy".
Mr. Thompson creates an illusion of enigmatic seriousness by ploddingly spelling out themes -- art versus science, truth versus illusion -- then smudging them with bits of contrived surreal humor and artsy incongruity.
His goal in "Science, Truth, and Democracy" is to equip the philosophy of science with the ethical dimension it still largely lacks: we need to rebuild the great house of science so that the views of the people can guide decisions about the goals, and the financing, of research.
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Thus Whewell also claimed that, in the course of science, truths which at first required experiment to be known are seen to be capable of being known independently of experiment.
Hence, one can object to constructive empiricism by suggesting that it is not sufficiently epistemically modest: the doctrine that the aim of science is truth about what is observable should be replaced with the doctrine that the aim of science is truth about what's actually been observed.
The principles of Galileo's scientific research, however, were themselves the result of a Christian idea of science and truth.
He also moved in a circle of French humanists who lived for faith and reason, science and truth.
In science, no truth is forever, not even perhaps Einstein's theory of relativity, the pillar of modernity that gave us E=mc2.
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