ABSTRACT
Science is the great shibboleth, some think, as perhaps when Quine’s empiricism yields no first philosophy higher than science, indeed none other than science about science. Others think that science is the great Satan, many of them under the influence of Wittgenstein’s repeatedly distancing philosophy from science, putting philosophy first, on the ground that it checks the tools which science merely uses. ‘Philosophy first’ trumps ‘No first philosophy’.
