The idea of maintaining a distinction between the substance of matter and the way it performs (see last post) also provokes possible ideas in another discussion. I was pushing the idea of science-as-interpretation recently. In the back of my mind was the thought that you can get away with this at the sub-atomic level (e.g. …
OK, so I’ve questioned whether Poythress is successful in his non-reductionist description of reality. I tend to think not. But can we propose an alternative? Let’s have a go, keeping in mind some of the plus points of Poythress’ scheme. I want to start with matter. Poythress is keen to get away from matter as …
[Apology before I start: there is no way to divide this into chunks, so the sound-bite culture of blogs goes out of the window right here ] In my last post I discussed Vern Poythress’ take on a non-reductionist view of reality. I said I liked the underlying project of moving away from a completely …
I looked (briefly) in my last post about Poythress’ view on philosophical perspectives of scince, described in his book Redeeming Science. He couples this with a discussion on reductionism, which I want to start pondering here… I like very much his motivation towards a non-reductionist description of reality. The basis can be summed up neatly …
I’ve been dipping into Poythress’ book Redeeming Science, specifically the chapter on The Character of Scientific Knowledge. In this chapter he is addressing two issues: First, the different philosophical approaches to science — realist, idealist, empiricist, pragmatist, post-modern relativist. Roughly, these respectively assume that scientific knowledge reflects the reality; that it is simply a reflection …
I’ve recently found a few on-line articles/books by Vern Poythress, including ‘Redeeming Science’, which I mentioned a while ago. All probably of interest to people reading this blog (whether you agree with him or not). A Biblical View of Mathematics at ‘Theology Network’ Redeeming Physics at ‘Theology Network’ Redeeming Science at www.frame-poythress.org I’ve been dipping …