Hybrid Epistemology as a Solution to Reductionism-Physicalism Issues
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Hybrid Epistemology as a Solution to Reductionism-Physicalism Issues

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

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eBook - ePub

Hybrid Epistemology as a Solution to Reductionism-Physicalism Issues

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

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. About the Author
  4. Copyright Information Ā©
  5. Acknowledgement
  6. Author’s Intro (And Motivation for Subject)
  7. Introduction to Scientific Reasoning
  8. Introductory Chapter 1
  9. Introductory Chapter 2
  10. Introductory Chapter 3
  11. Part 1 Exploring Non-HD Informed Physical Science
  12. Chapter 1 Kuhn
  13. Chapter 2 Exploring Two Concepts
  14. Chapter 3 A Review of HN Models Epistemology Compared with Soft-Science
  15. Chapter 4 One-Category Ontology of HN Model: Facts and Omissions
  16. Part 2 Paradigms and Principles of Non-HD Physical Science
  17. Chapter 3 Non-Mathematical
  18. Chapter 4 Multi-Methodology
  19. Chapter 5 Empirical Generalizationism
  20. Part 3 Glimpses of Soft-Science Supplemented Physical Science
  21. Chapter 6 The Unification Rewired
  22. Chapter 7 Unethical Deductions
  23. Chapter 8 Theoretical Terms (The Problem)
  24. Chapter 9 Justification
  25. Chapter 10 Ghost Taxonomies
  26. Part 4 The Soft-Informed Physical Science Project
  27. Chapter 11 Beyond the Clockwork Conception of HD Science
  28. Chapter 12 Beyond Unificationist Aims of Scientific Inquiry
  29. Chapter 13 Deductive-Based Laws in Science
  30. Chapter 14 Issues in Crafting Epistemological Inferences
  31. Chapter 15 ā€œDistinguishing Featuresā€ of Current Paradigm