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Here is an idea that just might save the world. It is that science, properly understood, provides us with the methodological key to the salvation of humanity. A version of this idea can be found in the works of Karl Popper. Famously, Popper argued that science cannot verify theories but can only refute them, and this is how science makes progress. Scientists are forced to think up something better, and it is this, according to Popper, that drives science forward. But Nicholas Maxwell finds a flaw in this line of argument. Physicists only ever accept theories that are unified – theories that depict the same laws applying to the range of phenomena to which the theory applies – even though many other empirically more successful disunified theories are always available. This means that science makes a questionable assumption about the universe, namely that all disunified theories are false. Without some such presupposition as this, the whole empirical method of science breaks down. By proposing a new conception of scientific methodology, which can be applied to all worthwhile human endeavours with problematic aims, Maxwell argues for a revolution in academic inquiry to help humanity make progress towards a better, more civilized and enlightened world.
In: Societas
In order to make progress towards a better world we need to learn how to do it. And for that we need institutions of learning rationally designed and devoted to helping us solve our global problems, make progress towards a better world. It is just this that we lack at present. Our universities pursue knowledge. They are neither designed nor devoted to helping humanity learn how to tackle global problems - problems of living - in more intelligent, humane and effective ways. That, this book ar
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 49-52
ISSN: 1467-9981
In: Human affairs: HA ; postdisciplinary humanities & social sciences quarterly, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 21-39
ISSN: 1337-401X
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Humanity faces two fundamental problems of learning: learning about the universe, and learning to become civilized. We have solved the first problem, but not the second one, and that puts us in a situation of great danger. Almost all of our global problems have arisen as a result. It has become a matter of extreme urgency to solve the second problem. The key to this is to learn from our solution to the first problem how to solve the second one. This was the basic idea of the 18th century Enlightenment, but in implementing this idea, the Enlightenment blundered. Their mistakes are still built into academia today. In order to le arn how to create a civilized, enlightened world, the key thing we need to do is to cure academia of the structural blunders we have inherited from the Enlightenment. We need to bring about a revolution in science, and in academia more broadly so that the basic aim becomes wisdom, and not just knowledge.
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 347-350
ISSN: 1467-9981
In: Acta Baltica historiae et philosophiae scientiarum: ABHPS, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 108-115
ISSN: 2228-2017
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 87-90
ISSN: 1467-9981
In: Acta Baltica historiae et philosophiae scientiarum: ABHPS, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 5-31
ISSN: 2228-2017
In: Ethical Record, vol. 120, no. 1, January 2015, pp. 18-23.
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In: Can Scientific Method Help Us Create a Wiser World?, in N. Dalal, A. Intezari and M. Heitz, ed., Practical Wisdom in the Age of Technology: Insights, Issues and Questions for a New Millennium, Ashgate, Farnham. 2015
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In: Nicholas Maxwell, What Philosophy Ought to Be, in C. Tandy, ed., 2014, Death And Anti-Death, Volume 11: Ten Years After Donald Davidson (1917-2003), Ria University Press, Palo Alto, California, ch. 7, pp. 125-162.
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In: Nicholas Maxwell, How Universities Can Help Create a Wiser World: Revolutionary Thought, Times Higher Education, 23 January 2014, No. 2136, p. 30
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In: Advances in historical studies, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 2-11
ISSN: 2327-0446