Rationality and Science: Can Science Explain Everything?(Brief Article)

The purpose of this book is to show that science cannot hope to legitimate itself, and that, in order to escape from the groundlessness which that might entail, it must be given a metaphysical foundation. Trigg traverses much ground, examining, inter alia, Chaos Theory, the possibility of a |God's-eye view', the sociology of scientific knowledge, and the idea of a |Theory of Everything'. At his best, here exemplified by his treatment of the anthropic principle, Trigg writes in an illuminating manner. Yet such moments are few and far between, and what results is a rather disorganized book, lacking clear argument, and characterized by …