The Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays

In 1890 T. C. Chamberlin published a profoundly important short essay "The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses" in the journal Science. We will explore two major considerations raised by the essay. First, we will examine the moral reform that Chamberlin urges for investigations, learning, and citizenship. Secondly, we will consider its implications for comprehensivism, the practice of "wanting to understand all and put everything together" as Bucky Fuller put it in "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth".

You can read Chamberlin's essay in a six page PDF at http://webhome.auburn.edu/~tds0009/Articles/Chamberlain%201965.pdf or on JSTOR (requires a free account) at http://www.jstor.org/stable/1716334

To help participants think through the two issues we will explore, I wrote an essay "The Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses" which you can read at https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/2020/12/the-value-of-multiple-working-hypotheses/

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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.

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