Complementing reductionism: Goethean science part 1: Qualities and wholeness

Reductionism in Social Science

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Complexity, Reductionism, and Holism in Science and Philosophy of Science

There are concepts that belong to the basic terminology of science but which are not used in everyday scientific work – such as the concepts of natural law and causality. Such concepts touch on the epistemological foundations of science, and thus transcend individual disciplines and presuppose a particular interest, the interest in foundational questions of science, and presumably also special ...

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Goethe's science: an approach to research in American Indian Studies.

In The Wholeness of Nature (1996), Henri Bortoft shows how a Goethean science of qualitative wholeness complements the analytic and causal- explanatory framework that underlies most research in the natural and social sciences. Goethe's insights and methods suggest that a better understanding of Indian tribes may occur when a tribe is regarded as its own abstraction and its own explanation. In G...