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The Found and the Made Science, Reason, and the Reality of Nature

332 Pages

by Routledge

332 Pages

by Routledge

332 Pages

by Routledge

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This book critically examines how mathematical modelling shapes and limits a scientific approach to the natural world and affects how society views nature. It questions concepts such as determinism, reversibility, equilibrium, and the isolated system, and challenges the view of physical reality as passive and inert. Dan Bruiger argues that if nature is real, it must transcend human... Read more

Acknowledgements

Preamble: The Barcode of Nature

Part One: The World as Found

1 What Is Found?
2 What Is Nature?
3 What Is Science?
4 Law, Chance, and Necessity
5 Mathematical and Physical Reality

Part Two: The World Remade

6 Consciousness and Its Consequences
7 What It Is Like to Be an Intentional System
8 The Rebellion against Nature
9 The Ideal of Perfect Knowledge
10 The Scientific World

Part Three: Maker's Knowledge

11 The Book of Nature
12 The Religious Origins of Science
13 Deductionism, or the Proof Shall Make You Free
14 Ideality
15 Is Nature Real?

Part Four: Beyond the Mechanist Faith

16 Is Reality Exhaustible in Thought?
17 Mechanism and Organism
18 Theories of Something
19 The Next Revolution in Physics?
20 The Stance of Unknowing

Index