To finish (at least for the time being) with this idea of Scientism vs. Science. I want to take it a little further so that I hope I am able to make clear what I percieve as a problem that arises sometimes (and not always) in the scientifically minded. As I attempted to make clear [...]
All posts for the month November, 2009
Scientific Fundamentalism
Posted by Jeff Carreira on November 27, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/27/scientific-fundamentalism/
Religion, Science and Perspective: Let the Games Begin
I actually had a different post in my queue, but this conversation got so interesting that I thought that I would throw my two cents in and bring it front and center before continuing with my own modest critique of science and introducing the phenomenology of Charles Sanders Peirce as planned. Tom, I haven’t as [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on November 24, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/24/religion-science-and-perspective-let-the-games-begin/
Science vs. Scientism
I spent my last post explaining how the philosophy of Pragmatism was shaped by hard science and now I am going to explain how one of the ironies of Pragmatism is that although it was heavily influenced by science, it was also battling against the encroaching materialistic worldview of science. This is a debate that [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on November 18, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/18/science-vs-scientism/
Chauncey Wright and the Strong Arm of Science
Over my last two posts I have been reflecting on some of the ideas of Kant and Hegel and how they were picked up by the early Pragmatists. The German Idealism of Kant and Hegel was a new way of thinking about reality not as a pre-existing static background, but as a creative participatory event. [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on November 16, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/16/chauncey-wright-and-the-powerful-hand-of-science/
The Individual and Society
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 –1831) was a leading figure in the movement of German Idealism initiated by Immanuel Kant and Hegel’s philosophy expanded on Kant’s theory of knowledge by adding a social and historical element. Kant had recognized that human beings create knowledge by using laws of reason to incorporate new sensual information cohesively [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on November 12, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/12/the-individual-and-society/
Commitment and Reality: From Kant to Peirce
There was more implied in Kant’s theory of knowledge than the fact that what we see is not an objective world in itself, but rather a picture that is created by us based on sense experience. (As if that wasn’t enough.) Besides stating that we are in an essential way the creators of the world [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on November 6, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/06/commitment-and-reality-from-kant-to-peirce/
Kant and the Creation of Reality
The American Philosophers from the Transcendentalists to the Pragmatists were all following in the footsteps of the great German Idealist Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804). This isn’t too surprising because all of Western Philosophy follows in the footsteps of Kant. In 1781 Kant published The Critique of Pure Reason and rocked the world of philosophy. [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on November 1, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/01/kant-and-the-creation-of-reality/
