Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of … - Ian Hacking

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Ian Hacking

Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he means what WE call mathematics. Likewise, I think, for the sciences.

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Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.

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Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

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Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

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Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter the world. This is odd, because 'experimental method' used to be just another name for scientific method. . . . I hope [to] initiate a Back-to-Bacon movement, in which we attend more seriously to experimental science. Experimentation has a life of its own.

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