[mjp]

Many associate this shift with Berkeley philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994), who sometimes said that what is termed "science" in one culture is called "voodoo" in another, and that, in science, explicitly, "anything goes"

Feyerabend stated that there is no such thing as scientific method and that physicists have no better claim to knowledge than voodoo priests.

The triumphs of science that have benefitted human life stand as a monument to the power of reason, and they stand as a clear refutation of the skepticism that is epidemic in contemporary philosophy of science.

[onedoug]

As Enrico Fermi said to Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project: “This is superb physics.”

IMHO, a solid grounding in mathematics and physics is as important in understanding philosophical problems and issues as it is to grasping the complexities of the other physical sciences.