Science’s First Mistake

LSE’den hocam Prof. Ian Angell‘ın yeni kitabı yayınlanmış.

6 yıldan fazla süren bir araştırma ve hazırlık sürecinin ardından ortaya çıkan kitabın ismi de kendisi kadar son derece ilginç “Science’s First Mistake“.

Kitabın bilime ve bilimsel teorilere bakış açısı son derece farklı. Ian Angell’ın kendi ifadesiyle:

“We build on the tradition of second-order cybernetics and Niklas Luhmann’s seemingly bizarre words: “The world is observable because it is unobservable.” Actually, if you pause and think about it for a second (or two), that makes perfect sense. What Luhmann is saying is that categorization, the basis of observation, and hence of the scientific method, is a necessary delusion. Human observation does not allow access to the ‘real world:’ observation is deceived by the linearity inferred in causality. We don’t observe causality in the world; a belief in causality is a necessary prerequisite of observation and cognition. Indeed, without the delusion of causality there would be no observation; observation and cognition are only possible because linearity is erroneously imposed on what is an always complex, non-linear world.”

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