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The Marriage of Sense and Thought
Stephen Edelglass
Georg Maier
Hans Gebert
John Davy
其他書名
Imaginative Participation in Science
出版
SteinerBooks
, 2011-09
主題
Philosophy / Epistemology
Science / Research & Methodology
Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
ISBN
158420205X
9781584202059
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YFTQ5TRxOsQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
"In this brilliant book, the authors build a fascinating bridge between science and the world of the senses, a bridge that holds great promise for overcoming the fragmentation and alienation that is so characteristic of our time." --
Fritjof Capra,
author of
The Tao of Physics
and
The Web of Life
"Likely to change many readers' comprehension of science." --
Arthur Zajonc,
author of
Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love
Having imagined a machine-like world, scientists now haunt this machine uneasily. Their plight is paradoxical: they have realized their world only through intense mental effort, yet this effort finds no legitimate place in the world it so painstakingly comprehends. It seems "objectivity" only comes at a cost. Why, for example, is science unable to describe a smile? Why is the moral life of a physicist regarded as his or her own private affair?
This exclusion of human qualities from science has practical as well as theoretical consequences. If we systematically imagine a world in which human beings don't exist, we will eventually create a world in which they
cannot
exist.
Reclaiming the human sources of scientific insight, the authors of this book restore the scientist to the world given by science and celebrate the joyous marriage of sense and thought.