California has responded to the needs of disadvantaged young people with new community college programs and services that raise critical problems of evaluation.The Neglect of Experiment:that is the title of Alan Franklin's (1986). He did not mean to imply that scientists were neglecting experiments, spinning well financed cobwebs of theories while laboratories decayed for lack of funds. He meant that historians and philosophers neglected the experimental side of science. That was true, and is no longer so. Although his title was fine when he was writing, the times have passed it by.
A decade before there had been almost no reflective philosophy of experiment. What little had been published was not seen as writing about experiment\uffe2\uff80\uff94that was not something to write about\uffe2\uff80\uff94but as discussion of the theory/observation distinction, or the impossibility of eliminating a theory by crucial experiment, etc. The even-handedDictionary of Scientific Biographydiscreetly cut articles on experimenters and expanded those on theorists. Thaddeus Trenn's (1977) on the experimental discovery of isotopes was poorly received.Maria Rosa Antognazza's work has issued a historical challenge to the thesis that the analysis of knowledge (as justified true belief) attacked by epistemologists from Gettier onwards was indeed the standard view traditionally upheld from Plato onwards. This challenge led to an ongoing reappraisal of the historical significance of intuitive knowledge, in which the knower is intimately connected to what is known. Such traditional accounts of intuition, and their accompanying claims to epistemological primacy, constituted the precise target of Moritz Schlick's critique. Schlick engages with this topic throughout his oeuvre, from some of his early epistemological writings, to his anti\uffe2\uff80\uff90metaphysical stance as a leading Logical Empiricist. Schlick crucially distinguishes knowledge from mere acquaintance, denying that the latter has epistemic status. He therefore argues that the very notion of \uffe2\uff80\uff98intuitive knowledge\uffe2\uff80\uff99 is a contradictio in adjecto.