Dialogues on Fundamental Questions of Science and Philosophy

The Commonwealth and International Library: Dialogues on Fundamental Questions of Science and Philosophy

A. Pfeiffer

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781483191164
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophical Essays

Dialogues on Fundamental Questions of Science and Philosophy presents a compilation of dialogues concerning the basic questions of science and philosophy. This book discusses the relationship between philosophy and science. Organized into two parts encompassing 10 chapters, this book begins with an argument that reality can be recognized objectively, but not that there is a conflict between science and faith. This text then examines the invalidity of the causality principle in the microworld of the elementary particle and by the lack of individual identity of the particles. Other chapters consider the argument that philosophy should also make use of scientific methods. This book discusses as well the extended version of the biogenetical law of Haeckel, which is also valid for the progress of the human perceptive faculty. The final chapter deals with the argument that the idea of good as a tenet for practical actions is religious in character. This book is a valuable resource for readers who are interested in the fields of science and philosophy.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Dialogues on Fundamental Questions of Science and Philosophy
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1. First Dialogue
• FIRST PART: Science and Theory of Cognition
• SECOND PART: The Ethical Problem – Nature and Culture