[permaculture] Philosophy of Science
Scott Pittman
scott at permaculture.org
Sat Nov 1 09:03:23 EDT 2008
Another member of the Deep Ecology crew was Dolores LaChapelle, "Sacred Land
Sacred Sex - Rapture of the Deep" she writes beautifully and adds poetry to
the discussion. Highly recommended!
Scott Pittman
Director
Permaculture Institute
www.permaculture.org
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Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 10:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [permaculture] Philosophy of Science
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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