Download Beyond Matter: Why Science Needs Metaphysics AudioBook Free
Does research have all the answers? Did it even deal with abstract reasoning that reaches beyond the earth experienced by us? How do we be so sure the physical world is sufficiently ordered to be intelligible to humans? How is it that mathematics, something of human minds, can uncover the secrets of the physical universe? Are all such questions to be ruled out as inadmissible if research cannot settle them? Metaphysics has customarily been grasped as reasoning beyond the reach of research, sometimes even proclaiming realities that are beyond its knowledge. Because of this, metaphysics has often been contemptuously dismissed by scientists and philosophers who want to remain within the bounds of what can be clinically proven. Yet scientists at the frontiers of physics unwittingly engage in metaphysics, because they are now pleased to contemplate entire universes that are, in basic principle, beyond human reach. Roger Trigg troubles those who refuse that research needs philosophical assumptions. In fact, Trigg boasts that the foundations of research themselves have to rest beyond science. It takes reasoning apart from what can be experienced to find what's not yet known and this metaphysical reasoning to imagine realities beyond what can be accessed. The publication is printed by Templeton Press.
