Rational Changes in Science
Pitt, Joseph C / Pera, Marcello
THE PROBLEMS OF SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITY Fashion is a fickle mistress. Only yesterday scientific rationality enjoyed considerable attention, consideration, and even reverence among phi losophers, "but today's fashion leads us to despise it, and the matron, rejected and abandoned as Hecuba, complains, modo maxima rerum, tot generis natisque potens - nunc trahor exui, inops", to cite Kant for our purpose, who cited Ovid for his. Like every fashio...