In the academic circles as well as in the popular view, Boghossian
says, it has become more and more accepted to claim that there are
"many equally valid ways of knowing the world, with science being just
one of them". This view, he claims, is counterintuitive -- after all,
on practical grounds we seldom allow for such approach. E.g., we rely
on the (roughly) scientific picture of the world in coming up with
school curricula and with our social policies. Furthermore, the claim
that there are many equally valid ways of knowing the world is
commonly rejected by academic philosophers -- most Anglo-American
thinkers tend to treat the scientific picture of the world as
'privileged' and not as one of many 'equally valid' epistemic systems.
Link: http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4364

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