ABSTRACT
In the last several chapters we traced the problems confronting philosophy’s traditional analysis of scientific knowledge as the outcome of attempts to explain our observations that are themselves “controlled” by our observations. Empiricism, the ruling “ideology” of science assures us that what makes scientific explanations credible, and what insures the self-correction of science, as well as its ever-increasing predictive powers, is the role that observation, experiment and test play in the certification of scientific theory.
