Just another myth or story  

Here's an interesting article on critical realism, the current philosophical reaction to postmodernism:

We cannot manage without a concept of truth. There is (as most of us thought all along) a pre-existing external reality about which it is the job of science to tell us. True, we must be cautious about claims to objective reality, alert to ideological distortions, and aware that the world is a messier, more complicated place than the accounts of physicists would suggest. This does not mean that such claims cannot plausibly be made. A central plank of critical realism is that science can no longer be considered as just another myth or story.

What's interesting to me about this is it doesn't deal at all with the question of causality, something our present scientific methodologies don't really treat. The critical realist seems basically to have conceded that causality can't be shown and sensibly chosen to continue anyway - something akin to faith, perhaps? As you can see, I'm not too excited about the movement; I see it as a kind of cult of science, one which will completely co-opt some fields of human endeavor and completely discredit others.

By the way: apropos of this post, should it be science or Science?