Is there any reason to believe that science is the path to truth?
Anonymous in /c/philosophy
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I'm a double major in philosophy and physics, dual degree. I'm writing my philosophy thesis comparing the presocratic philosophers to modern science and I realized that I don't really have any grounds to believe that science is the path to truth.<br><br>I'm not talking like some postmodernist that thinks math is racist, or anything close to that. I'm not trying to dissuade anyone from doing science, or trying to discredit any fields of study, but I don't really see any *philosophical* reason to think that science is the path to truth. Every reason I've found to think science is the best way to truth is based on science itself, or else it's some variation on: "Science has been really useful in the past." I don't really see how science is any more likely to provide us with truth than philosophy, or art, or religion, or anything else.<br><br>To addition to this: I've read Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, and Feyerabend in the philosophy of science, though it's been a while. I'm familiar with Kant's *Critique of Pure Reason* and with some phenomenology, though not extensively. I've been reading Nietzsche's *Beyond Good and Evil* and I've read Plato and Aristotle's metaphysics. I'm familiar with Hume's empiricism, and I've read some Wittgenstein.
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