Lost wanderers in the forest of knowledge
some thoughts on the discovery-justification distinction
pp. 3-22
in: Jutta Schickore, Friedrich Steinle (eds), Revisiting discovery and justification, Berlin, Springer, 2006Abstract
Neo-positivism is dead. Let that imperfect designation stand for the project that dominated and defined the philosophy of science, especially in its Anglophone form, during the fifty or so years following the end of the Second World War. While its critics were many,1 its death was slow, and some think still to find a pulse.2 But die it did in the cul-de-sac into which it was led by its own faulty compass.