Truth and Evidence

Abstract

In the foreword to the special feature, the author emphasizes the timeliness and importance of this volume. Against the impression of the title, articles in this volume warn the abuses of evidences. For example, Trump administration of US requests unnecessarily strict scientific evidences for the global warming. The lack of them is abused for the skepticism against scientific results. When we reflex the development of philosophy of science, it was not easy to identify ‘what evidences are'. It was, or still is, theoretically difficult to find out relevant ways to establish truth from evidences. We need to take critical and productive attitude on ‘truth and evidence' for the development of science policy studies.