The Injury of Science Text Books: Review Essay of Michael Matthews, Science Teaching

Abstract

This book challenges the reviewer excessively; it is almost impossible to review. To take one basic example, let me report on a small part of its treatment of views of scientific objectivity. Most people take science to be objective, as they hold that scientific theories evolve inductively out of a rich base of factual information (like wine out of grapes, to use Sir Francis Bacon’s delightful expression).