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  • From: yarrow@sfo.com
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Philosophy of Science
  • Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:01:05 -0700

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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