Here's an interesting book review in today's issue of Science:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/321/5887/344

*Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings*
Piecewise Approximations to Reality
*by William C. Wimsatt*
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007. 468 pp. $49.95, £32.95,
€37.50. ISBN 9780674015456.

 The world is messy. We are fallible and bounded. Yet science progresses
with great reliability. Wimsatt's conception of science is organized around
these three facts.

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