Jack Sinclair
first,
there are at least as many philosophies of science as there are different sciences
the so called scientific method that we learn when we are young it’s about as useful as an economics 101 course – it won’t get you far.
it just keeps one from being entirely ignorant that’s all.
they are important to know and you can spend your whole life not knowing any more than that and be fine
but if you prick beneath the surface, neither one of them is very true at all except from a publicity standpoint perhaps – a 30 second tv spot “this is economics, this is science”
each science has its own set of philosophies that’s distinctive to itself and not only that but each paradigm within each science has its own philosophy of science that it follows and The various paradigms are constantly battling each other