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/
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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”.
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/
July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion. http://y2u.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/u6372Te2YA8
Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives with CJ Fearnley https://youtu.be/4UvDO2z0bjo
Oct 14: The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/sPjcJjnHzKU
Nov 18: The Value of The Ethnosphere with CJ Fearnley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixgxwR29_WY
Dec 16: Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses with CJ Fearnley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIHsVIzGlw
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The Inductive Attitude: The Moral Basis of Science @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays