tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post2726680150084842211..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The example of 'evolution' as an illustration of imagination (via meditation) as the final arbiter in scienceBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-47782776273409283392016-01-01T19:32:19.794+00:002016-01-01T19:32:19.794+00:00And of course, keeping with Kuhn, anything "r...And of course, keeping with Kuhn, anything "revolutionary" you pursue will be widely rejected and refuted by the rest of the community, but that does not mean it is not true!Nathanielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04531664498277638757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-66977073678090512402016-01-01T16:19:37.528+00:002016-01-01T16:19:37.528+00:00Fascinating. I think it is an extremely important...Fascinating. I think it is an extremely important and understudied (or at least "underconsidered") part of scientific enquiry to really unpack the assumptions and the implications of the key concepts which we are taught as part of our curriculum (many, if not most, of which then remain as common conceptual currency in the production of scientific work). In this case, "evolution". While to many, it may seem that evolution necessarily implies gradual changes ("natura non facit saltum" I believe it is), that this has now become the main consensus is actually the provisional result of generations of debate and intellectual polemics.<br /><br />This is a point in favour of the case to require students of the sciences to learn the history of the ideas underlying their disciplines, and not just the set of provisional results which hold at the time that they are studying it. I'm not a scientist by trade, so I a may be off the mark, but from my own experience in secondary school and some of my scientist friend's experience in University, the history of their discipline is almost entirely neglected, or only given a cursory, trivializing glance. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05951799102814360555noreply@blogger.com