Re: 'Justified' Developments in Philosophy of Science..? are we getting there?

--- In [email protected], Bruno Marchal <marchal@...> wrote:
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> Yes. But I think this might be our consciousness here and now. All  
> other conscious content can be doubted.
> But I do agree that elementary arithmetic is almost not doubtable,  
> although, strictly speaking, it can.
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> OK. (To be sure I don't believe in "philosophy of science", except  
> conventionally for the curriculum. Either we tackle problems with a  
> scientific attitude, or we don't).
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> Bruno
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yes, but don't forget that tackling problems with a scientifc attitude is also the goal; sometimes we do take things for granted and we beleive that we do deal with problems with the appropriate attitude and method, but that is not always the case, and that is exactly where Philosophy of Science aims -and becomes important:

To make sure that we are in line with a truly 'scientific' attitude and at the same to point out various problems and implications.

Furthermore, i will argue that Philosophy of Science is about 'testing' and even discovering more appropriate=valid attitudes towards that goal.

Now, the next logical question is how scientifc attitude deals with *meaning* and what aspects should be included, both to have a functional scientific approach and then DEFINE what a scientific approach is and/or should be all about!

Is *meaning*(and asking *why*) outside the scope and method of Science? 

or is it that we haven't developed, yet, a truly scientific method good enough to include aspects that were so far excluded/'prohibited'?

what is the true nature of this problem? 

what is exactly the goal here?

"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"
- Stephen W. Hawking

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they  are certain, they do not refer to reality." -Albert Einstein