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Science Under Attack
Nicholas Maxwell
Some attack scientific rationality, others defend it, but both miss the point. What both parties take to be scientific rationality is actually a species of irrationality masqueradi…
A New Task for the Philosophy of Science
Nicholas Maxwell
This paper argues that philosophers of science have before them an important new task that they urgently need to take up. It is to convince the scientific community to adopt and im…
What is Wrong With Aim-Oriented Empiricism?
Nicholas Maxwell
For four decades it has been argued that we need to adopt a new conception of science called aim-oriented empiricism. This has far-reaching implications and repercussions for scien…
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically Comprehensible?
Nicholas Maxwell
Most scientists would hold that science has not established that the cosmos is physically comprehensible - i.e. such that there is some as-yet undiscovered true physical theory of…
Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos and Aim-Oriented Empiricism
Nicholas Maxwell
In this paper I argue that aim-oriented empiricism (AOE), a conception of natural science that I have defended at some length elsewhere, is a kind of synthesis of the views of Popp…
Do We Need a Scientific Revolution?
Nicholas Maxwell
Many see modern science as having serious defects, intellectual, social, moral. Few see this as having anything to do with the philosophy of science. I argue that many diverse ills…