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My book ("When Science is Silent") affirms the centrality of art and contingency in opposition to the strengthening tide of scientific naturalism in contemporary thought. I believe that fast-moving developments in fields such as genetics, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology and artificial intelligence are falsely giving credence to the view that science stands above human concerns and exerts ultimate authority over all aspects of life and all other fields of inquiry.

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"Interestingly, Langridge puts forth his criticisms of science in the careful, logical language of science itself. This is not a metaphysical, New Age exploration, but rather a painstakingly deliberate examination of humanity's beliefs."
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It is an essential part of the scientific outlook that how things appear to us is not a characteristic of the real independent world. For naturalism, the world appears to be continuous, coloured and textured, but is really composed of discrete particles obeying mathematical laws.
But should common sense be so lightly dismissed? Our raw experience of light might have nothing to do with the physical Read more of this blog post »

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Published on November 05, 2012 00:45 • Tags: consciousness, materialism, mind-body, naturalism, philosophy, poetry, scientism

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