Special Papers
Foundations For An Axiological Science
Hartman's Science Realized
By Norm Hirst
Life before matter, possible signification before tangible signs: Toward a Mediating View
By Floyd Merrell
The Dynamical View of Natural Form
By T. Irwin and S. Baxter
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The fourth paper, ‘Towards a Science of Life As Creative Organisms’ by Norm Hirst, is the point of departure for the following paper by floyd merrell.
Hirst’s paper, which is partly autobiographical, describes an
intellectual adventure to find a place in a scientific world for values
and meaning. What this adventure revealed was that mainstream science,
mathematics, logic and philosophy mutually support each other to
promote a comprehensive materialist world-view that has no place for
meaning for creativity. In this journey Hirst discovered the work of
Rosen, and concluded, as Rosen had, that a new metaphysics is required.
In this paper he uses Peirce’s notion of ‘abduction’ to justify the
speculative presentation of an alternative, process organismic
world-view, a form of process metaphysics. While strongly influenced by
Alfred North Whitehead and scientists influenced by him (especially the
biophysicist Mae-Wan Ho), it is an original synthesis. This synthesis
is then contrasted with ‘materialism’. This highlights the way diverse
ideas cohere to display the real alternatives, revealing thereby that
what are often regarded as obvious, theoretically neutral ideas
actually provide the foundations for a particular perspective of the
world. Against the background of the account of materialism, Hirst
argues that advances in biology herald the move towards a process
organismic world-view. However, this is being blocked not only by
mathematical ideas, but more fundamentally by mainstream ideas in
logic. In identifying blockages to this revolution in thought Hirst is
particularly concerned with the influence of extensional logic, which,
like the mathematical formalism attacked by Rosen, effectively
eliminates meaning and creativity. What is called for, he argues, is a
new logic adequate to the creativity of life.
Norm's paper What Is Life? published in Cosmos and History - The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy |
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What I Learned from Norm and Sky HirstAnd How It Changed My Life
by Rodney Plimpton
Before I met Norm and Skye I had a pretty good handle on how Life worked, or so I thought. I had a PhD in Social Psychology from Stanford, had studied Human Potential for Five years with Jean Houston, knew all about stimulus-response and something about cybernetics. I didn’t consciously realize how much my model of life was based on a popular concoction Darwinism, materialism, elitism, and computer science. Read more...



