| Summary: | In this brief note, a concept of the ‘scientific worldview’ is examined. In
particular, contrary to some of the most often misconceptions regarding the
concept, it will be argued (1) that there cannot be a ‘scientific worldview’
in the traditional sense of a Weltanschauung if science is taken in its
strictest sense, (2) that the remaining ontological and epistemic skeleton
cannot be a single unified picture of the world (Weltbild), and (3) that the
supposed ‘truth’ of these remaining pictures cannot be unambiguously
grounded either in the methodology of science, although the methodology
itself can be explanatory and predictively adequate and successful, or in
the technological success that is associated with science.
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