Merrilee Salmon

Merrilee Salmon is Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Before retiring from Pittsburgh, she taught at Indiana University, DePauw University, University of Arizona, and Kyoto University. She is former editor-in-chief of Philosophy of Science. Her interests include philosophy of the social sciences and critical thinking. She is the author of Philosophy of Archaeology, Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking, several edited works, and numerous articles.

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Philosophy Successful Science [long_description] Some would say that knowledge gained through use of the scientific method has a unique claim to truth and that science is the only path to real knowledge. Others might disagree. Merrilee Salmon reviews Scientism: The New Orthodoxy, edited by Richard Williams and Daniel Robinson.

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