Science Needs Natural Philosophers

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Science Needs Natural Philosophers

Unread post by davesmith_au » Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:43 am

August 31, 2011 ~ Wal Thornhill

Regrettably, the inductive principle of natural philosophy has been dismissed in the ‘mob rule’ culture of science today. And modern philosophy may be the culprit. The corruption in philosophy seems to have spread from Immanuel Kant’s 18th century philosophy that led to ‘positivism,’ which limited the goal of science to merely describing regularities in the behaviour of appearances. [More...]
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