The Inductive Attitude: The Moral Basis of Science @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays
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As comprehensivists we strive "to understand all and put everything together" as Buckminster Fuller put it. As a result, we accumulate a large inventory of knowledge from our vast cultural heritage. In order to assess, evaluate, and make sense of this large inventory of knowledge, we need epistemic virtues, criteria for reliable, dependable, or advantageous knowledge, to guide us.
This event will explore the moral basis for science called the inductive attitude by George Pólya (1887–1985) in his 1954 book "Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Volume I: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics". Even the accessible 30 page section of that book that I propose to examine for this topic is too long to recommend. However, I have written a short summary that will help you think about the key ideas for this event: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/2021/01/the-inductive-attitude-a-moral-basis-for-science-and-comprehensivism/
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”.
An introductory series of videos from past events can be watched at
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkCiNL_gZp2chIX3Hk5gHXf9bzxcjVxNA
CJ Fearnley's site "Collaborating for Comprehensivism" has more information on the idea: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/
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The Inductive Attitude: The Moral Basis of Science @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays