In-der-Blog-sein

Mormon Philosophy & Theology posts on Heidegger and Thomas Kuhn's different understandings of science. They are typically, and superficially, considered to have had similar ideas. Which is understandable from view points sufficiently distant from both. Here's the key paragraph, but read the whole thing.

Heidegger argues that the traditional argument of the essence of science as experiments is flawed. Experimentalism can't distinguish modern science from Aristotilean or medieval science. Rather what characterizes modern science is the mathematical. He finds the rise of mathematics (meaning a kind of projective metaphysics) in Descartes. Experiment is always an appeal to facts. Yet as Kant's Critique demonstrates the experimental method is itself a projection of a priori conceptions onto nature. Thus in the 1930's, Heidegger's view of science is as a kind of methodological idealism. Yet an idealism essentially tied to Externalism rather than Internalism.

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