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Full Idea
There is no such thing as science; there are only sciences: physics, chemistry, meteorology, geology, biology, psychology, sociology.
Gist of Idea
There is no such thing as 'science'; there are just many different sciences
Source
John Heil (Philosophy of Mind [1998], Intro)
Book Ref
Heil,John: 'Philosophy of Mind' [Routledge 1998], p.6
A Reaction
A simple but nice point. It suggests that maybe each science has an entirely different method, and style of reasoning, experiment and explanation. Some have strict laws, others have 'ceteris paribus' laws.
| 76 | The object of scientific knowledge is what is necessary [Aristotle] |
| 2200 | All experimental conclusions assume that the future will be like the past [Hume] |
| 6782 | Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam] |
| 6601 | Science rules the globe because of colonising power, not inherent rationality [Feyerabend] |
| 3853 | For science to be rational, we must explain scientific change rationally [Newton-Smith] |
| 3859 | We do not wish merely to predict, we also want to explain [Newton-Smith] |
| 3870 | The real problem of science is how to choose between possible explanations [Newton-Smith] |
| 3329 | Presumably the statements of science are true, but should they be taken literally or not? [Benardete,JA] |
| 5334 | We resist science partly because it can't provide ethical wisdom [Flanagan] |
| 4588 | There is no such thing as 'science'; there are just many different sciences [Heil] |
| 3123 | Science is in the business of carving nature at the joints [Segal] |
| 6779 | Instrumentalists say distinctions between observation and theory vanish with ostensive definition [Bird] |