How can one progress honestly through one’s career as a practitioner of science, or more generally as a professional intellectual, while bearing in mind the at best probable and provisional character of the knowledge that is gleaned and disseminated in his or her activities and the uncertainty that gnaws at the foundation of apparently every academic discipline? Given the existence of such persistent cracks in the edifice, how can a scientist claim to maintain his intellectual integrity while he participates in activities other than their rectification? Is it the persistence of the cracks that dissuades him? Or is he merely ignorant of their existence?
No comments:
Post a Comment