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Philosophy and the Origin and Evolution of the Universe (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
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Philosophy and the Origin and Evolution of the Universe (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
Series: Synthese Library, 217
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It has often been noted that a kind of double dynamics char-
terizes the development of science. On the one hand the progress in
every discipline appears as the consequence of an increasing
specialization, implying the restriction of the inquiry to very
partial fields or aspects of a given domain. On the other hand, an
opposite (but one might better say a complementary) trend points
towards the construction of theoretical frameworks of great ge-
rality, the aim of which seems to correspond not so much to the
need of providing "explanations" for the details accumulated
through partial investigation, as to the desire of attaining an -
rizon of global comprehension of the whole field. This intell- tual
dialectics is perceivable in every discipline, from mathe- tics, to
physics, to biology, to history, to economics, to sociology, and it
is not difficult to recognize there the presence of the two main
attitudes according to which human beings try to make
"intelligible" the world surrounding them (including themselves),
attitudes which are sometimes called analysis and synthesis. They
correspond respectively to the spontaneous inclination which pushes
us to try to understand things by seeing "how they are made", in
the sense of "looking into them" and breaking them into their
constitutive parts, or rather to encompass things in a global
picture, where they are accounted for as occupying a place, or
playing a role, which are understandable from the point of view of
the whole.
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