Knowledge and reference in empirical science

A study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge?

Is science an instrument only distantly related to what's real?

Does the language of science adequately describe the truth?

Jody Azzouni approaches these questions by investigating the technology of science - the actual forging and exploiting of causal links, between us and what we endeavour to refer to and know about.

It shows how this technology allows for knowledge-gathering, why scientific lore must be regarded as true and in what ways instrumental access to our universe is anchored in observation.

The second part of the book studies the language of science and shows how this flexible tool enables us to transform our fragmented investigations of the world into a unitary and seamless discourse.