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• Title: Bioethics and History & Philosophy of Science.
• Author : Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
• Release Date : January 01, 2004
• Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 160 KB

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THE FATE OF THE SCIENCES. Gerard Elfstrom, Dept. of Philosophy, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL, 36849-5210. By and large, those who discuss the fate of the sciences divide into two camps. The first includes those convinced that the sciences will be complete after a few major problems are solved. Partisans of this camp commonly presume there are a finite number of forces, particles, or bodies in the universe. Once these are understood and explained, science will be finished. The second camp holds those who argue that the sciences will never come to an end. They claim either that the end of science has been proclaimed many times in the past, but science, blind to the wisdom of those claims, rose to greater heights, or that solving scientific problems always generates new ones. The arguments of both camps are unsatisfying because they give no reason why past scientific advances will continue or why we can expect to find no more phenomena to investigate. Lately, Stephen Hawking has joined the camp of those who believe science will never come to an end. His argument intrigues because he attempts to explain why, in principle, science can never be complete. I propose to examine and assess his argument.

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