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It seems to me that an enterprise whose human character can be seen by all is preferable to one that looks 'objective', and impervious to human actions and wishes. The sciences, after all, are our own creation, including all the severe standards they seem to impose upon us. It is good to be constantly reminded of the fact that science as we know it today is not inescapable and that we may construct a world in which it plays no role whatever (such a world, I venture to suggest, would be more pleasant than the world we live in today).
It seems to me that an enterprise whose human character can be seen by all is preferable to one that looks 'objective', and impervious to human actions and wishes. The sciences, after all, are our own creation, including all the severe standards they seem to impose upon us. It is good to be constantly reminded of the fact that science as we know it today is not inescapable and that we may construct a world in which it plays no role whatever (such a world, I venture to suggest, would be more pleasant than the world we live in today).
"Consolations for the specialist", in: I. Lakatos - A. Musgrave (eds.) Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, Cambridge University Press, 1970. p.228.
Reprinted in: Problems of Empiricism (Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2.), Cambridge University Press, 1981. p.160.
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