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Reason, nature and the human being in the West: Part 2

2.3 Other themes to explore

What do you think?

What is the relation as we conceive it today between mathematics and the principles according to which the universe is ordered?

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The Mathematisation of Nature

What do you think?

What do you think of the view that (for all we know) there are only patterns in nature - no 'compulsions'?

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The nature of Laws of Nature

What do you think?

Do you agree with Leibniz that you will never be able to explain the subject's experience simply in terms of 'parts impinging upon one another'? Is there an implication in what Leibniz says that there is something absolutely distinctive about (a) human beings (b) senasate animals or (c) living things?

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Materialism

What do you think?

Do you agree with 'experimentalism' as applied to the study of human beings? Animals? Plants? Othere things?

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Experimentalism

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