Philosophy of Science Quotes

“A disturbing feature of the past century is that the dominant figures of the two main European philosophical traditions –Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein– were decidedly conservative thinkers with strong authoritarian tendencies. The disturbance is only increased when an avowedly liberal thinker like Richard Rorty explains the significance of his own hero, John Dewey, in terms of the views that Dewey shared with Wittgenstein and Heidegger, as if Karl Popper had never existed. Had Rorty taken Popper’s achievement more seriously, we might have acquired greater immunity to the postmodern predicament, whereby the failure to establish logical foundations for all thought opens the door to an endless proliferation of community-based epistemic standards”
― James Robert Brown, Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers