Invitation To Generalized Empirical Method: In Philosophy And Science

by Terrance J Quinn

Overview

Bernard Lonergan identified the need and possibility of what he called 'generalized empirical method' in science and philosophy. Implementation will be a future community achievement. The book enters into details of a selection of examples in the sciences and philosophy of science. These are provided not to engage in, or blend the present aim with traditional philosophical debate, but as points of entry to help reveal the possibility and need of balanced empirical method. Taking words of Lonergan: '(Q)uestions of method are practical. So my purpose in these (chapters) is not to demonstrate what is necessary. It is not to forecast what is probable. It is ... to invite you to share in the exploration of a proposal' (Bernard Lonergan, A Third Collection (1985), 114). The main examples are drawn from biochemistry and biology, although heuristics envisioned will include all sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813208438
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/23/2017
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction xxi

Chapter 1 Space and Time 1

Chapter 2 A Foundations Lift from the Adult Columbidae 35

Chapter 3 Growing to Flight Mastery: The Whole Storeyed Story 85

Chapter 4 Biological Entities 107

Chapter 5 The Concrete Intelligibility of Space and Time 140

Epilogue. What is Science? 177

Index 191