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The Anatomy of Knowledge - Papers Presented to the Study Group on Foundations of Cultural Unity, Bowdoin College, 1965 and 1966 (Paperback)
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The Anatomy of Knowledge - Papers Presented to the Study Group on Foundations of Cultural Unity, Bowdoin College, 1965 and 1966 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Epistemology
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Originally published in 1969. Since the seventeenth century the
kind of knowledge afforded by mathematical physics has come more
and more to furnish mankind with an ideal for all knowledge. The
ideal also carries with it a new conception of the nature of
things: all things whatsoever are held to be intelligible
ultimately in terms of the laws of inanimate nature. This
reductionist formula can be overcome only by the fundamental
rethinking of our philosophical premises. To contribute towards
thsi rethinking was the aim of the Study Group at whose meetings
this collection originated. The essayists come from a wide range of
disciplines but all want to address the conflict in our culture.
The first part consists of discussions of various fundamental
problems in the sciences. There are essays on the inter-relation of
physics and psychology, on the possible reduction of biology to
physics and chemistry, on new approaches to experimental
psychology, against the possibility of giving a purely 'factual'
account of social and political life, and for a fundamental reform
of our concept of responsibility. The second section of the book
suggests lines of philosophical inquiry which might help to resolve
the epistemological and ethical problems arising at the foundations
of physics, biology, psychology and the social sciences.
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