{"title":"Arguing for the aim of science","authors":"Andreas Hüttemann","doi":"10.1007/s44204-025-00290-y","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This is a comment on a not so major point in Alexander Bird’s recent excellent monograph <i>Knowing Science</i> (2022). Bird argues in the first few chapters for the thesis that science aims at knowledge (rather than at truth, verisimilitude, understanding, or problem solving). That is a major point. I will not quibble with this thesis, but rather with the kind of arguments he relies on to establish it. I will discuss the question of how best to argue for or against the claim that X is the aim of science. If one sticks with what I take to be the only adequate source for knowledge about the aim of science, Bird’s suggestion that knowledge is the aim might need to be qualified.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93890,"journal":{"name":"Asian journal of philosophy","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44204-025-00290-y.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Asian journal of philosophy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44204-025-00290-y","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This is a comment on a not so major point in Alexander Bird’s recent excellent monograph Knowing Science (2022). Bird argues in the first few chapters for the thesis that science aims at knowledge (rather than at truth, verisimilitude, understanding, or problem solving). That is a major point. I will not quibble with this thesis, but rather with the kind of arguments he relies on to establish it. I will discuss the question of how best to argue for or against the claim that X is the aim of science. If one sticks with what I take to be the only adequate source for knowledge about the aim of science, Bird’s suggestion that knowledge is the aim might need to be qualified.
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