Philosophy Café Event

- Time:
- 13:00 - 14:00
- Date:
- 13 February 2014
- Venue:
- John Hansard Gallery Highfield Campus University of Southampton SO17 1BJ
For more information regarding this event, please email Lifelong Learning Team at lifelonglearning@southampton.ac.uk .
Event details
Science: reason or dogma?
Science is often claimed to be an especially reliable and rational means of discovering the truth. But many relativists and postmodernists tell us that, on the contrary, science is just another article of faith, like the religious dogmas it replaced. So does science have some features - a distinctive method, for example - that give it a special authority? Is it possible to defend science on independent grounds?