The Meta Philosophy of Science

The idea that science is the only way in which we can understand reality as a whole is itself a philosophy. Anyone who makes such a claim that philosophy is useless or that philosophy isn't really needed has made a philosophical claim because it's not a claim from within science. Today we've got a new kind of philosopher and you kind of folk philosopher we might say one who claims that they never do philosophy or don't do philosophy or pretend that they're not interested in philosophy. They've evolved intellectually beyond what philosophy can possibly offer to become meta in some way, says David Wheeler.