[permaculture] Philosophy of Science

yarrow at sfo.com yarrow at sfo.com
Sat Nov 1 00:01:05 EDT 2008


At 2:10 PM -0700 10/30/08, jason brown wrote:
>I am currently doing a masters degree in forestry. While the 
>material is amazing and I am learning a lot. There has been a 
>consistant mechanistic world view expressed and assumed. I am 
>working on a paper analysis for the class and would like to include 
>a critique of the mechanistic world view.
>

Books on "deep ecology" directly address the weaknesses of the 
mechanistic world view. Arne Naess wrote some papers on it a couple 
decades ago.

One of the most entertaining philosophy of science books I've read is 
Paul Feyerabend, Against Method. He discusses the scientific method 
as one of the possible approaches to describing the world, rather 
than the only method. (Maybe shoulda been titled Against Dogma.)



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