its own way the successes of its predecessors, as well as going beyond their accounts to new successes of its own. Science is never absolutely certain, nor is its method absolutely clear cut. Whether they know it or not, whether they like it or not, scientists live in an intellectual world that is rightly called postmodern. The clear and certain ideas of the Cartesian modernist programme have proved to be unattainable, even in its paradigm discipline, natural science. But I believe that science can