Critics of the Problem of Science in the Modern World

Context

Robert Hanna:

"In his brilliant, break-through 1925 Lowell Lectures, published as Science and the Modern World (Whitehead, 1967), Alfred North Whitehead worked out a fundamental critique of European formal and natural sciences up through the first two decades of the 20thcentury, together with a radically reformed conception of those sciences by means of a profoundly original organicist cosmology, and the outlines of a new philosophy of civilization or Kulturphilosophie. Edmund Husserl tackled the same basic set of issues — a fundamental critique of European formal and natural sciences, a radically reformed conception of those sciences, and a new philosophy of civilization — in his unfinished Crisis of European Sciences, written in 1936, but not published until 1954 (Husserl, 1970).

Let’s call the shared philosophical target of Whitehead’s and Husserl’s books, the problem of science and the modern world. Husserl’s ideas were absorbed into the mainstream post-World War II phenomenological tradition (Moran, 2012). Nevertheless, not only were Whitehead’s ideas a full century ahead of their time, but also, for various fairly dire world-historical, sociocultural, social-institutional, and more generally sociopolitical reasons, they’ve been mostly ignored since then."

(https://www.academia.edu/62653411/THE_PHILOSOPHY_OF_THE_FUTURE_Uniscience_and_the_Modern_World_2022_)

Source

• Book: THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE. Uniscience and the Modern World. By Robert Hanna, 2022

URL = https://www.academia.edu/62653411/THE_PHILOSOPHY_OF_THE_FUTURE_Uniscience_and_the_Modern_World_2022_