Philosophical Interpretation of Science

Abstract

WHILE it is true that Prof. Dingle¹ and I can finish this discussion in private, it seems to me there is a public importance in differentiating the two schools of thought. One school claims that science is an historical phenomenon produced by human beings in their handling of the world of which they are parts, a social practice with technological, experimental and theoretical aspects all interlocking and interdependent. Scientists it sees as individuals consciously or unconsciously fulfilling the social purpose of science even when they are personally interested only in developing its logical framework. I agree with that view of science.