Hybrid Epistemology as a Solution to Reductionism-Physicalism Issues

Predictability in Physics and How it Has Formulated Validity Principles of Authentic Inference

Philippos Afxentiou

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9781528958745
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

This book provides an introspection into overlooked aspects of physical science: overrated standards, an Aristotelian perspective, and underappreciated paradigms. Combining two works, it explores physical science - describing the world scientifically and consistently - through two themes. First, it shows that while an experimental hypothesis approach succeeds due to the availability of the physical world, other strategies exist. The author proposes one approach focused on physical science's extreme prioritization of certain goals, which may limit its exploration. Some overlooked ideas are thoroughly detailed. Second, it re-examines Aristotelian physics, contrasting it with modern science and analyzing its wholesale replacement. Beyond just comparing, it identifies Aristotelian virtues, citing recent supporting works. It illustrates an unfinished pre-modern science paradigm. Overall, readers gain a complete understanding of the hard science paradigm, including its hidden assumptions, exaggerations, evolutionary myths, and options for innovation. The study sheds new light on hard science's modern pre-eminence, grounding analysis in principles, not achievements. This clarifies physical studies' roots, each paradigm's exaggerations and oversimplifications, allowing new approaches.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• About the Author
• Copyright Information ©
• Acknowledgement
• Author’s Intro (And Motivation for Subject)
• Introduction to Scientific Reasoning
• Introductory Chapter 1
• Introductory Chapter 2
• Introductory Chapter 3
• Part 1 Exploring Non-HD Informed Physical Science
• Chapter 1 Kuhn
• Chapter 2 Exploring Two Concepts
• Chapter 3 A Review of HN Models Epistemology Compared with Soft-Science
• Chapter 4 One-Category Ontology of HN Model: Facts and Omissions
• Part 2 Paradigms and Principles of Non-HD Physical Science
• Chapter 3 Non-Mathematical
• Chapter 4 Multi-Methodology
• Chapter 5 Empirical Generalizationism
• Part 3 Glimpses of Soft-Science Supplemented Physical Science
• Chapter 6 The Unification Rewired
• Chapter 7 Unethical Deductions
• Chapter 8 Theoretical Terms (The Problem)
• Chapter 9 Justification
• Chapter 10 Ghost Taxonomies
• Part 4 The Soft-Informed Physical Science Project
• Chapter 11 Beyond the Clockwork Conception of HD Science
• Chapter 12 Beyond Unificationist Aims of Scientific Inquiry
• Chapter 13 Deductive-Based Laws in Science
• Chapter 14 Issues in Crafting Epistemological Inferences
• Chapter 15 “Distinguishing Features” of Current Paradigm