Chris Edwards

Novum Organum II (eBook, ePUB)

Going beyond the Scientific Research Model

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1620, the British politician and philosopher Francis Bacon published Novum Organum (New Method) and formalized the previously scattershot methods of scientific experimentation into a method able to be replicated. In due time, the Western world would build an intellectual empire on the basis of Bacon's concepts of scientific research. The West's university and its scientific and medical systems all stem from Bacon's philosophy. But after nearly four hundred years; it is time for something new again. In mathematics, theoretical physics, and philosophy, a quiet revolution has begun. Thinkers who can study across disciplines and form analogies, who take seriously the History and Philosophy of Science and its problems of metaphysics and epistemology, have been making impressive breakthroughs. These methods have been, up until now, as random as the process of experimentation was in Bacon's day. This timely book has come to formalize these methods, build upon Bacon's scientific research model, and to ultimately go beyond it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475810011
• Artikelnr.: 41009976

Autorenporträt

Chris Edwards has had his "connect-the-dots" teaching methodology published by the National Council for Social Studies, is the author of two books of philosophy, and is a frequent contributor on topics of law, logic, and theoretical physics to the science and philosophy journals Skeptic and Free Inquiry. He proudly teaches world history and Advanced Placement world history at a public high school in Indiana.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: The First Novum Organum
Chapter 2: The First Part of Novum Organum in Context
Chapter 3: History as a Connect-the-Dots Game
Chapter 4: Paradigm Shift
Chapter 5: Novum Organum's Impact
Part II: The New New Method
Chapter 6: Everything Analogy
Chapter 7: Model Dependent Realism
Chapter 8: Mathematics
Chapter 9: Examples From the Field of Analogy and Consilience
Conclusion: The New New Atlantis
References