There Ought To Be a Science!

There ought to be a law?

Worst Case and the Deepwater Horizon Blowout: There Ought to Be a Law

There is a law . In fact, there are three laws that, jointly and severally, should have anticipated and provided measures to prevent and cope with the explosion of the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon . Instead, we have 11 deaths, 17 serious injuries, the release of an American record 2 .6 million gallons of oil,2 an equivalent record for chemical dispersants,3 months of Mutt ‘n’ Jeff responses, ...

An Integrated Framework for Ought-to-be and Ought-to-do Constraints 1

Knowing Afghanistan: Can there be an end to the saga?

War on terrorism, as the motto which formed the cornerstone of global policies of former     neo-conservative administration of the United States, is increasingly becoming ineffective in Afghanistan with the dreaded consequence of spilling over into Pakistan. This inevitable consequence of War on    Terrorism in Afghanistan has brought the West face to face with the ‘nest of terrorism’ that CIA...

Can there be science without philosophy?

Over the last few decades, philosophy has gained an increasingly bad reputation among working scientists. Prominent researchers have suggested, in various forms and degrees of mockery, that philosophy has little or nothing positive to contribute to science. This essay provides a response to these allegations. We begin by examining, and ultimately questioning, an influential argument purporting ...