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Teilhard's Vision of the Past - The Making of a Method (Hardcover)
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Teilhard's Vision of the Past - The Making of a Method (Hardcover)
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The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, has been
characterized as metaphysics, poetry, and mysticism-virtually
everything except what its author claimed it was: a "purely
scientific memoir." Professor O'Connell here follows up on a nest
of clues, uncovered first in an early unpublished essay, then in
the series of essays contained principally in The Vision of the
Past. Those clues all point to Teilhard's intimate familiarity with
the philosophy of science propounded by the celebrated Pierre
Duhem. It was Duhem's central claim that science, to remain true to
itself, must aim at establishing a genuine "natural classification"
phenomenal reality. That insight, Professor O'Connell argues,
guided Teilhard's lifelong effort to describe the "imposed
reality-factors" which science in its variety of forms suggests as
ingredients and operative at every phase in the evolutionary
development of planet Earth. Limiting his focus to the way Teilhard
unfolded his vision of the past, Professor O'Connell concludes that
those who deprecate Teilhard as unscientific betray little
awareness of how sophisticated his understanding of science truly
was.
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