Published: 2018-09-031

Against Larry Laudan

Krzysztof Kościuszko

Humanities and Natural Sciences

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.488

Abstract

In the article I criticize Laudan’s critical examination of the realist view that truth is the aim of science. I show that (1) also the aspiration for solving as many problems as possible (the aim preferred and promoted by Laudan) is the utopian aim of science, (2) Laudan’s standpoint is selfdestructive. I try to define the absolute truth.

Keywords:

Laudan, aims of science, problem solving, definition of absolute truth

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Kościuszko, K. (2018). Against Larry Laudan. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (20), 129–135. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.488

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