In recent decades, our view of science keeps changing as seen in three main successive yet overlapping intellectual movements of positivism, post-positivism, and postmodernism. This had led to the realizations that knowledge-building is a complex business and that an ever more critical view of science could lead to its very negation. The merits and limitations of each of these three main intellectual movements will be exposed, analyzed, and debated, with examples from a broad range of scientific disciplines.
In recent decades, our view of science keeps changing as seen in three main successive yet overlapping intellectual movements of positivism, post-positivism, and postmodernism. This had led to the realizations that knowledge-building is a complex business and that an ever more critical view of science could lead to its very negation. The merits and limitations of each of these three main intellectual movements will be exposed, analyzed, and debated, with examples from a broad range of scientific disciplines.
