ABSTRACT
Our topic has been Scientism (or scientific expansionism) and the aim has been to clarify this view and assess critically the ideas it contains. We can say that what is characteristic for advocates of Scientism is that they believe that the boundaries of science (that is, the natural sciences) could and should be expanded in such a way that something that has not previously been understood as science can now become a part of science. How exactly the boundaries of science should be expanded and what more precisely it is that is to be included within science are issues on which there is disagreement. Some promoters of Scientism are more ambitious in their extension of the boundaries of science than others. In its most ambitious form Scientism states that science has no boundaries: eventually science will answer all our problems.
