Full Idea
Ever since Kant, to think science as a philosopher has been to claim that science harbours a meaning other than the one delivered by science itself.
Gist of Idea
Since Kant, philosophers have claimed to understand science better than scientists do
Source
Quentin Meillassoux (After Finitude; the necessity of contingency [2006], 5)
Book Reference
Meillassoux: 'After Finitude: the necessity of contingency', ed/tr. Brassier,R [Bloomsbury 2008], p.119
A Reaction
The point is that science discovered objectivity (via the mathematising of nature), and Kant utterly rejected objectivity, by enmeshing the human mind in every possible scientific claim. This makes Meillassoux and I very cross.
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