I’m traveling for work today, so I don’t have much time for a post, but if you have a couple minutes, take a look at this interesting — and, in my opinion, important — new article from Columbia University philosopher of science Philip Kitcher: We are finite beings, and so our investigations have to be selective, and the broadest frameworks of today’s science reflect the selections of the past. What we discover depends on the questions taken to be significant, and the selection of those questions, as well as the decision of which factors to set aside in seeking answers to them, presupposes judgments about what is valuable. Those are not only, or mainly, scientific judgments. In their turn, new discoveries modify the landscape…