The self-criticism of science: The contemporary philosophy of science & the problem of the scientific consciousness.

The contemporary philosophy of science (episte-mology) featuring K.Popper, T.Kuhn, I.Lakatos, P.Feyerabend, Hanson among others, has exercised a decisive critique to the dominant views of the positivist and neo-positivist model of knowledge and has in fact undermined its credibility.