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Changes within science itself

A review of Science: A Four Thousand Year History by Patricia Fara. A review of The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes (and more and more and more and more and more and more). From Seed, here's their first State of Science, an examination of the radical changes within science itself by assessing the evolving role of scientists and the shifting dimensions of scientific practice. Can science reveal the truth? What questions can science answer? A review of William James at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Science, and the Geography of Knowledge by Francesca Bordogna. A review of Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science: Rationality Without Foundations by Stefano Gattei. A review of Thomas Kuhn's "Linguistic Turn" and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism by Stefano Gattei. Philosophy as complementary science: Hasok Chang sees a new role for the history and philosophy of science. Gordon Rugg and Sue Gerrard on philosophy of knowledge in an age of artificial intelligence. Is science inherently illogical, because it relies in part on assumed theories that reach beyond what we can ever observe? A look at why studies of popular science are often wrong. Here are 5 atrocious science cliches to throw down a black hole.