WHAT DOES ISOTROPIC MEAN? o The term isotropic refers to the epistemic interconnectedness of beliefs in the sense that everything that the scientist knows is, in principle, relevant to determining what else he ought to believe In principle, our botany constrains our astronomy, if only we could think of ways to make them connect(Fodor, 1983, p 105 ). Antony(2003) presents a striking case of this sort of long-range interdisciplinary cross-talk in the sciences, between astronomy and archaeology; Carruthers(2006, pp 356-357) furnishes another nice example, this time linking solar physics and evolutionary theoryWHAT DOES “ISOTROPIC” MEAN?  The term ‘isotropic’ refers to the epistemic interconnectedness of beliefs in the sense that “everything that the scientist knows is, in principle, relevant to determining what else he ought to believe. In principle, our botany constrains our astronomy, if only we could think of ways to make them connect” (Fodor, 1983, p. 105). Antony (2003) presents a striking case of this sort of long-range interdisciplinary cross-talk in the sciences, between astronomy and archaeology; Carruthers (2006, pp. 356–357) furnishes another nice example, this time linking solar physics and evolutionary theory