Re: True Gems of Scientific Epistemology
From: JXStern (JXSternChangeX2R_at_gte.net)
Date: 07/20/04
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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:34:41 GMT
On 20 Jul 2004 07:56:52 -0700, jlanfield2003@yahoo.com (Jeff Lanfield)
wrote:
>I would like to get opinions on what were the most profound books and
>thinkers on scientific epistemology you have encountered. By this I
>mean a work that totally changed the way you look at the world and at
>science. Below is my list. I would be grateful for your additions. I
>am really looking for works that are novel and different, orthogonal
>to the ones I listed. For example, I included Bertalanffy's General
>System Theory so I do not want the many, many other books on General
>System Theory.
>
>My list (no particular order):
>
>Rene Thom: Structural Stability and Morphogenesis
>Ludwig von Bertalanffy: General System Theory
>David Bohm: Wholeness and Implicate order
These three are sort of out there in terms of mainstream science.
Somewhat more mainstream:
Ilya Prigogine: From Being to Becoming
Other books are good to read in order to learn to reject what they
claim, I'd include Penrose's books in that list, and Stuart Kaufman's
"The Origin of Order."
Orthogonal to your choices, I always like to recommend Ruth Garrett
Millikan's books on teleosemantics, "On Clear and Confused Ideas" is
more accessible than "Language, Thought, and Other Biological
Categories."
And in relation to your later message, don't toss off Darwin so
quickly, evolution is an *extremely* subtle and tricky idea, enough so
that Gould and Dawkins agree on just about no details at all. Along
those lines, I'd recommend Ernst Mayr's "Toward a New Philosophy of
Biology".
NB: Whether any of the books on your list or mine qualify as
epistemology, is debatable.
J.
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