Lori on Scientific Knowledge

The more we learn, the more we realise we didn't know shit! Now if she had a job at Cambridge as a professor of epistemology or something, she could write a whole book about this, called, "Towards a Socio-economic Theory of Scientific Revolutions".


See On Progressive and Degenerative Research Programs and More From Cambridge.

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