Presuppositions and limits of science

P. E. Hodgson

pp. 133-147

in: Gérard Radnitzky, Gunnar Andersson (eds), The structure and development of science, Berlin, Springer, 1979

Abstract

The achievements of modern science and technology are so impressive and influential that there is sometimes a tendency to think that all problems can be solved by the scientific method, and that any problems that cannot be so resolved are meaningless pseudo-problems.