Scientific Knowledge & Philosophic Thought

Library Journal

This slim volume argues that science and philosophy differ only in methodology, not in subject matter. A remarkable enough claim, but surely it would take a major study, and one providing rigorous analysis in both fields, to make a case for it. Unfortunately, this is not such a study. Neither the methods and subject matter of philosophy (as exemplified by comments on Kant, Hume, Moore, and Popper) nor its traditional problems are adequately treated; the treatment of science is somewhat naive (Bacon's model of how science advances is held up as paradigmatic). The author is a biomedical researcher and member of the American Philosophical Association. Leon H. Brody, U.S. Office of Personnel Management Lib . , Washington, D.C.