  This paper argues that philosophers of science have before them an important
new task that they urgently need to take up. It is to convince the scientific
community to adopt and implement a new philosophy of science that does better
justice to the deeply problematic basic intellectual aims of science than that
which we have at present. Problematic aims evolve with evolving knowledge, that
part of philosophy of science concerned with aims and methods thus becoming an
integral part of science itself. The outcome of putting this new philosophy
into scientific practice would be a new kind of science, both more
intellectually rigorous and one that does better justice to the best interests
of humanity.
