Dumbing down the history of science.

[Lionel Mandrake]

7. I can't offer advice,

since I didn't read the paper. But I've read other "externalist" papers. In fact, most of the papers in Isis are very much a view of science from the outside. Some would claim that this "broad" treatment (purr) is an improvement over "narrow" (snarl) internalist papers, but those of us with a background in science tend to describe the two approaches as "superficial" (snarl) and "deep" (purr), respectively.

(We all use purr-words and snarl-words, as Sam Hayakawa used to say.)