The machine of knowledge - how I found the irrationality of modern science

Overview of the book The Instrument of Knowledge - How Irrationality Created Modern Science | Michael Sherifens: The instrument of knowledge This book causes a revolution in our understanding of the origins and structure of science. Why does science enjoy overwhelming authority? Why did it take so long—after two thousand years of inventing philosophy and mathematics—until humanity started using science to discover the secrets of the universe? In a pioneering work blending science, philosophy, and history, the leading philosopher of science Michael Sherifens answers these difficult questions, explaining how science only appeared when thinkers adopted an astonishing premise that scientific achievements could be achieved by violating the rules of logical reasoning. This book challenges the classical narratives about the emergence and meaning of science, found in classical works like Karl Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery and Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, using a large number of vivid historical examples to prove that scientists deliberately ignore theoretical coherence, even philosophy; and that they do so through a certain type of reasoning that opens horizons for adopting new and unprecedented approaches to experimentation and empirical observation. Sherifens calls this scientific rule the rule of iron.