21st Century Philosophy of Science

A great deal of progress has been made in science, yet obscurantism persists. This may be in due to a large part due to unnatural gaps in scientific endeavours, absence if transdisciplinary pursuits and researchers think in silos, and the pursuit of rigour and precision in science. There is an unnatural gap between the natural sciences and the social sciences. Cross-cultural gaps also persist, and cross-cultural research design in mostly absent. Careerism along with career rivalries abound in science, and there is no commitment on the part of scientists to science, society, and the education system. People-focused science is largely absent, and science communication is mostly poor. We need people focused and people-centric science and not scientism. Bertrand Russell, E.F. Schumacher, Karl Popper and others have pointed out to the follies of scientism, but their warnings have gone mostly unheeded. Our canons for the philosophy of sound science can be used not only for social sciences, but for all other fields of science as applicable. Our ten canons are as follows, and these would indeed be logical and self-explanatory to those who have read our previous papers and publications. Indeed, they would bring out the essence of our philosophy; the philosophy of our globalization of science mission. They may even be seen as a summation of our work.

One kind of bias legitimizes every other kind of bias”(This should be the social sciences equivalent of “Every action has an equal and an opposite reaction – Newton’s third law of motion).
Incomplete paradigms and frameworks also beget counter reactions. They also need to embrace as far as possible, quantum thinking.”(This should also be a social sciences equivalent of “Every action has an equal and an opposite reaction- Newton’s third law of motion).
Hypotheses and theory-building processes that are not focused on reality or are not data driven, will remain fundamentally flawed and erode people’s trust and belief in science.
If scientists and researchers talk down to people or undermine their thought processes, they will never win their trust and delay the process of social change or scientific progress. Public orientation in diverse contexts is one of the fundamentals of science communication.
Cross-cultural research design must be practiced wherever it makes sense to do so. Cross-cultural research design offers an in-built validation mechanism. Scientists must respect and understand the fact that humans will always be humans, and that different humans will think differently
Scientists and researchers must never oversimplify. Yet, they must practice irreducible simplicity. If contradictory evidence exists within a model, it means that the model is over-simplified. They must bear in mind the principle of non canceling contradictory evidence. Real world problems tend to be complex, and so do solutions to such problems
Reconciling paradoxes automatically takes science to a higher level. This must be a continuous process. Less than perfect scientists and researchers persist with paradoxes and dichotomies. So do crooks and knaves
Ideologies in science must come to naught. Behind every problem or a catastrophe lies an ideology-driven individual. It is possible to isolate and quantify ideologies on the lines of what we had previously written. Dogma is also self-exhibited and can be demonstrated easily. Dogma may be attributed to scientists and non-scientists alike.
Scientists and researchers must never falter in the quest and pursuit of the truth, and must pursue truth consistently and assiduously. This requires honesty, dedication, sincerity, objectivity, accuracy, and rigour, among other attributes. Scientists can never justify nonsense, not at least in the long-term, If scientists proceed consistently in the right direction without deviation, they will never falter. Doing some good doesn’t grant scientists immunity. It doesn’t make them immune to criticism. We need constant and continuous excellence.
Success in science must be measured in terms of the social, cultural and technological change. A successful researcher creates a generation gap either directly or indirectly, and must measure his success in terms of that gap

The following is the list of our publications on this subject

1	Elucidating the Certainty uncertainty principle for the Social Sciences: Guidelines for hypothesis formulation in the Social Sciences for enhanced objectivity and intellectual multi-polarity	IJISRT, March 2023
2	Social Responsibility over Academic freedom: Emphasizing Ethics and Codes of Conduct geared for a Scholar’s duties towards science, society and the education system in Twenty-First Century Science	IJISRT, September 2022
3	Unveiling the Sociological Ninety-ten rules for Social Sciences research: Towards better hypothesis formulation in the Social Sciences in the interests of higher quality research and intellectual multi-polarity	IJISRT, February 2023
4	Operationalizing cross-cultural research design: Practical, cost-effective, and a minimalistic application of cross-cultural research design to minimize cultural bias in research and reconcile diverse viewpoints	IJISRT, April 2023
5	Making the use of Inductive approaches. Nomothetic theory building and the application of Grounded theory widespread in the social sciences: A guide to better research and theorization in the social sciences	IJISRT, May 2023
6	Taking the benefits of science to underrepresented regions of the world: Promoting Horizontal collaboration in social science research as a meaningful extension of cross-cultural research design	IJISRT, August 2023
7	Advocating output criteria based scientific and research methodologies: Why the reliability of scientific and research methods must be measured based on output criteria and attributes	IJISRT, August 2023
8	Conceptualizing ‘Cultural Frames of Reference’ and ‘Crosscultural Frames of Reference’ for various cultures and societies: Employing these concepts to bring about social and cultural change in different societies	IJISRT, September 2023
9	Reducing the ‘latency period’ for the acceptance of new scientific ideas: Positioning the ‘latency period’ for the acceptance of scientific ideas as an indicator of scientific maturity	IJISRT 2024: 1. January.
10	Promoting science activism for the twenty-first century and beyond: Positioning science activism to promote course corrections in science and to lead to higher scientific output across societies and scientific disciplines	IJISRT 2024: 1. January.
11	Paradox identification and paradox resolution in scientific endeavour: Reconciliation of contradictory rulesets in the interests of better theorization and hypothesis-building	IJISRT 2024: 1. January.
12	Baking innovative and creative thinking techniques into scientific method: Towards innovative and creative techniques as an intrinsic part of scientific method for higher scientific and research output	IJISRT 2024: 1. January.
13	Instituting “Institutional coherentism” as a prerequisite for high-quality science: Another crucial step for winning the battle for consistent high-quality science	IJISRT 2024: 1. January.
14	Forging “Methodological inductivism” in the interests of better science: Encouraging Methodological inductivism as a harbinger of meaningful change in different kinds of scientific endeavour	IJISRT 2024: 1. February
15	Advancing the use of “Continuous zero-based reassessment of assumptions, hypotheses and methods”: A vital tool and technique in the interests of better science	IJISRT 2024: 1. February.
16	Orchestrating “Irreducible simplicity” in science and science communication: Positioning “irreducible simplicity” as a vital guiding principle for effective and bona fide science	IJISRT 2024: 1. February.
17	Charting the skepopathy – skepticism continuum: A constructive aid in the interests of consistent and reliable scientific activity	IJISRT, May 2024
18	Initiating “discourse analysis” as a tool to differentiate between science and pseudoscience: Another valuable tool to advance objectivity and rigour in science	IJISRT, June 2024
19	Recommending probabilistic approaches for hypothesis evaluation: A gainful extension of the certainty uncertainty principle for the social sciences	IJISRT, June 2024
20	Popularizing auto-dialectics in scientific endeavour: A potentially productive tool in the interests of better and higher-quality science	IJISRT, June 2024
21	Why an alignment of hypothesis-formulation and theorization with cultural and cross-cultural frames of reference is required: A rough guide to better hypothesis-formulation and theorization	IJISRT, June 2024
22	Embedding “practicalism” as an intrinsic constituent of the philosophy of science: Positioning “practicalism” as an essential pre-requisite for rapid scientific progress	IJISRT, June 2024
23	Widening the scope of social science research to cover global considerations: How “practicalism” can help identify new vistas in social science research	IJISRT, July 2024
24	Abstraction, conceptualization, disambiguation, ideation, innovation, objectivization, quantification, and theorization in the social sciences: New pillars for contemporary social sciences research	IJISRT, July 2024
25	Propounding “Structured innovative thinking techniques” for Social Sciences Research: Why this can be a game-changer in social sciences research	IJISRT, July 2024
26	Hypothesis, paradigm, framework and concept evaluation and testing across space and time: A revalidation of our concepts of “aeternitism” and “omnimodism”	IJISRT, October 2024
27	Building upon “Foundationalism” to achieve the objectives of contemporary science: How this can lead to faster scientific progress and inclusive science	IJISRT, October 2024
28	Emphasizing “integrationism” in twenty-first century science: Another useful tool to generate better scientific paradigms and better quality science	IJISRT, October 2024
29	Implementing “Epistemic coherentism” in twenty-first century science: “Epistemic coherentism” as an essential pre-requisite of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research	IJISRT, November 2024
30	Enforcing absolute transparency in research: Absolute transparency as an eventual and an essential prerequisite of contemporary twenty-first century research	IJISRT, November 2024
31	Establishing the importance of self-contained scholarship in twenty-first century science: Self-contained scholarship as an essential prerequisite for scientific progress	SSRN, December 2024
32	Recognizing “Non self-cancelling contradictory evidence” as and when it occurs or arises: Delineating its special place in twenty-first scientific method	IJISRT, January 2025
33	Devising smoking gun tests for objectivity in scholarship: Towards a comprehensive set of indicators to measure objectivity in scholarship	IJISRT, March 2025
34	Incorporating the concept of “Fuzzy logic” in social sciences research: An important heuristic for more diverse and meaningful social sciences research	SSRN, June 2025
35	Revolutionizing scientific method: How revamping scientific method can catapult the quality and quantum of scientific output to an altogether new trajectory	SSRN, March 2025
36	Envisaging a new era in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research: Presenting the COMPASS model for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research	SSRN, June 2025
37	Differentiating strong data and evidence from weak data and evidence: Another heuristic for use in general and social sciences research	IJISRT, June 2025
38	Towards 360 degree approaches to hypothesis formulation and evaluation: Another epochal milestone in twenty-first century science	IJISRT, August 2025
39	Towards “Thick analysis” of statements, propositions and assertions: Compendious evaluations with immense benefits in research	IJISRT, July 2025
40	Combining hierarchical analysis with hypothesis building: An approach with immense benefits for diverse forms of research in the social sciences	SSRN, July 2025
40	Combining hierarchical analysis with hypothesis building: An approach with immense benefits for diverse forms of research in the social sciences	SSRN, July 2025
41	Amplifying the importance of synchronic-diachronic approaches in social sciences research: Unleashing the power of this technique for better sociocultural analysis	IJISRT, July 2025
42	Quantifying, measuring, and correlating sociocultural variables: An indispensable technique for diverse fields of the social sciences	IJISRT, July 2025
43	Cementing “Optimization techniques” in social sciences research: Towards non-mathematical optimization techniques for the social sciences	IJISRT, July 2025
44	Swivelling from an enumeration of scientific fallacies to a root cause analysis of scientific fallacies: An approach with immense implications for science	SSRN, August 2025
45	Laying the foundations for ethical, unbiased and substantive reviewing of research work: Providing the theoretical foundation for superior science	SSRN, August 2025
46	Minimizing the time taken between hypothesis generation, hypothesis testing and refinement: A necessary adjunct in the epoch of fast-paced science	IJISRT, August 2025
47	Pursuing bullet-proof research design: Towards 360 degree and stakeholder-driven research design for better and faster scientific progress	IJISRT, August 2025
48	Disinterring 100 new scientific fallacies, direct and indirect: Using discourse and narrative analyses to unearth new scientific fallacies	IJISRT, October 2025
49	Ideating the “Contextualization to universalization” function in the knowledge production process in theoretical sciences: An appurtenance for knowledge acceleration in contemporary society	SSRN, November 2025
50	Promoting data-driven and real-world applicability-driven approaches to theorization: Yet another essential requirement of contemporary science	SSRN, November 2025
51	Reforging Epistemology in the epoch of transdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies: Upgrading epistemology for the twenty-first century	SSRN, December 2025
52	Rewiring “the philosophy of science” for the twenty-first century: Pursuing contemporary transdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives	SSRN, December 2025
53	Reconceiving science communication for the twenty-first century and beyond: A holistic, integrated, transdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach	SSRN, December 2025
54	Unravelling the ten basic canons of the philosophy of sound science: An essential pre-requisite of contemporary high-quality science	SSRN, December 2025

S.No	Title of the Paper	Publication Details
1	Rethinking Journal classification: Rethinking Journal classification in the twenty-first century in the interests of a higher quantum of scientific output and a more globalized scientific output	Published directly online
2	Towards a formal analysis of “vested interests” as an intrinsic part of social science research techniques: Another crucial component of social and cultural progress	IJISRT, September 2024
3	Reimagining the rationalist movement for the twenty-first century and beyond: Why the rationalist movement needs to be recast to suit current realities	IJISRT, September 2024
4	Developing methods, tools and techniques to identify and isolate ideologies: Why this is an essential prerequisite of twenty-first century science and nonscience	SSRN, January 2025
5	Reigniting public trust and public confidence in science: Why high quality science alone will restore trust in science and wipe out pseudoscience	SSRN, June 2025
6	The long and rocky road to self-extermination: The inevitable decline, fall and demise of Academic Marxism	SSRN, July 2025
7	On the current decline of science in the USA: Why this can be a golden opportunity for science to reinvent itself	SSRN, September 2025
8	Rise, Africa, rise: Why Africa can and must rise in scientific and non-scientific pursuits	SSRN, October 2025
9	Realizing the modernization and globalization of social science objectives: Why the battle and the fight must begin immediately and how to do it	SSRN, October 2025
10	Determining other functional areas of study to which the “Globalization of science movement” may be applied: Recommending a proactive approach in this respect	SSRN, November 2025
11	Ubiquitizing context-based theorization in the social sciences: Why there is reason to believe that context based theorization must become widespread	SSRN, November 2025
12	Mainstreaming continuous post-publication review in science: Yet another milestone towards high-quality science	SSRN, November 2025
13	Accelerating scientific progress: Why we need a mechanism to continuously review, mainstream and diversify scientific knowledge	SSRN, November 2025
14	Pleading for objective, balanced, comprehensive and diverse post-publication reviews of research work: A necessary adjunct for high-quality science	SSRN, November 2025

Twenty-first century intellectualism

101	Redefining Intellectualism for a post-globalized world: Why present-day intellectualism is obsolete and why a comprehensive reassessment of intellectualism is required	IJISRT, August 2023
102	Realizing the ideals of twenty-first century intellectualism: Redefining the concept of a meritocracy for greater scientific and intellectual output	IJISRT, January 2025

Anthropology and racism

Quashing racism: Presenting the ‘Comprehensive sociocultural persecution complex’ as a logical extension and a practical application of the Certainty uncertainty principle for the social sciences IJISRT, September 2023

IJISRT, September 2023

Books

1	From contextualization to universalization: Accelerating the knowledge production lifecycle for theoretical sciences in the twenty-first century Google books	Google books
2	Repurposing epistemology for the twenty-first century and beyond: a natural accompaniment for the advancement of knowledge	Google books
3	Why we need a revolution in the Social sciences: A post-colonial perspective	Google books