THE BOUNDARIES OF SCIENCE

This paper delves into the intrinsic boundaries and limitations of the scientific method and its applications from an ontological, epistemic and moral perspective. It poses essential questions surrounding underlying presuppositions, basal unobservability and impracticality in science while aiming to be cognizant of the intricacies and subtleties that one encounters while asking questions that are elementary in nature. It seeks to give insight about the use of epistemic tools in science following which the applications of the scientific method are examined in purely human and moral domains. The latter part of the paper examines systemic issues that may inhibit the preservation of the Mertonian norms, intellectual honesty andhumility and scientific progress. The goal of the paper is to marry both philosophical and technical concerns surrounding the scientific method and to promote a newly emancipated science that is free from all intellectual dishonesty and needless conviction while maintaining a keen awareness of its own intrinsic limitations and presuppositions.