(Originally written November 18, 2006 in Book 8)
What is this thing called science?
Chapter 16 - Epilogue
There is no general account of science and scientific method to be had that applies to all science in all things.
Philosophy does not have the resources to provide the account of science.
Historical accounts of science in the philosophy of science deal with knowledge of the epistemology of science.
Philosophy of science, though it is unable to provide us an account of science in general can provide characterizations of a given science at a given time.
Philosophers of science are useful because while scientists are good at making scientific progress they are not good at characterizing that progress. Philosophers of science are good at just that.
Linehan - The Way Chalmers presents philosophy of science makes me wonder if philosophy of science really isn't a muddled mess of philosophy of history, anthropology, and sociology.
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