CONTENTS Xm 



The social setting 69 



The idea of progress 70 



A FIRST QUALIFICATION: PATENCY, 



PROGRESS, AND PRAGMATISM 72 



A SECOND QUALIFICATION OF THE 



PRINCIPLE OF INTELLIGIBILITY 73 



Autonomous science and sciences 74 



A THIRD QUALIFICATION OF THE 



PRINCIPLE OF INTELLIGIBILITY 76 



The appeal to experience 77 



A new conception of scientific method 79 



The principle of corrigible fallibility 83 



The Body Scientific 84 



The anticipatory apparatus 86 



The heuristic apparatus 87 



Chapter I \/ 



COSMOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY 90 



Problems 90 



Motivation 90 



Support 91 



Cosmology 92 



Inclusiveness 92 



Science metamorphosed 92 



Disagreement 93 



Rigidity and revolution 93 



THE CLIMATE OF OPINION 95 



The linguistic factor " 98 



The aesthetic factor 99 



The ethical factor 101 



The moral factor 102 



THE COSMOLOGY OF ORGANIZED SCIENCE 104 



Technology 105 



Conceptual exchanges 107 



