ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book argues for the possibility of progress in science without the presumption that there is some underlying orderliness in the world, be it the orderliness implicit in modern conceptions of laws of nature. It also argues for any other metaphysical presumption about the structuredness of the constituents of the universe. The book explores that people come to know about aspects of the world piecemeal, and they need no presumption that those pieces will fit together in any particular way. It describes the unity of the sciences project that might seem to have been directed at predicting the future of science. The book argues against the totalising history of philosophy of a postmodernist writer, Richard Rorty. It concludes by presenting a pragmatist alternative to the anti-enlightenment stance of postmodernists, which the author adapt from the philosophy of Otto Neurath.
