Science is More than Knowing
“I agree with Bird on the point that science is about knowledge to a great extent, but I am not convinced...that knowledge plays a central role in science….Contra Bird, I shall argue that scientific progress cannot be fully characterised as the accumulation of scientific knowledge.”
Preprint: https://philarchive.org/archive/SHASIM-5
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#Science is a ***way*** of #Knowing of the scientific #system, much like #religion is the way of knowing of #belief systems. You may argue that philosophy is yet another *way of knowing* separate from science and religion.
Epistemology in particular deals with different ways (systems) of knowing, or the question of *how we know what we know*, while philosophy of science deals with just one (the scientific) way of knowing.
#Knowledge is ***not a stock*** that is accumulated, stored, and distributed by the system, but represents instead the #state of that system at any particular point in time.
Here is a simple depiction (model) of a generic ***dynamical system*** such as science with the ability to #learn and #grow, and #produce useful outputs:
