Abstract
Haack discusses attitudes to science, which range all the way from uncritical admiration at one extreme, through distrust, resentment, and envy, to denigration and outright hostility at the other. She postulated that what is needed is an understanding of inquiry in the sciences, which is, in the ordinary, nontechnical sense of the word, realistic, neither overestimating nor underestimating what the sciences can do. Here, several philosophies of science are discussed.