怀疑的乐观主义：拥抱不确定性是科学的力量源泉

Embracing uncertainty, not banishing it, is what makes science powerful Sorin M. S. Krammer Yet this is also where the book’s claims of originality mandate scru- tiny. David Deutsch’s The Beginning of Infinity (1) covered much of this ground—the radical openness of an explanatory universe and the link between fallibilism and optimism—with comparable ambition and greater rigor. Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers made the entropy- as-possibility argument four decades ago (2). Firestein synthesizes this tradition fluently but does not sufficiently distinguish his own contribution from it. IT COULD BE OTHERWISE: SCIENCE IN THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY | The title of Stuart Firestein’s new book is a disguised provocation. …