Philip Kitcher on Science
Philosophy of science has made great progress in tackling problems of the special sciences. Much less has been done to come to terms with science as a social phenomenon, to understand the ways in which scientific claims are affected by and affect the kinds of societies we have, and to integrate philosophy of science with social and political philosophy. This is an area in which I think that a large amount of philosophical work needs to be done. Perhaps in twenty years time there will be as many papers on the appropriate goals for biomedical and environmental research as there are now on much-discussed puzzles in confirmation theory.
interview in Human Nature review
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