Philosophy: Discipline of the Disciplines

by D. F. M. Strauss

Publisher:

Paideia Press

, 2021

Overview

Special scientists have two options (but just one choice):

(i) either they give an account of the philosophical presuppositions with which they work - in which case they operate with a philosophical view of reality, or (ii) implicitly (and uncritically) proceed from one or another philosophical view of reality - in which case they are the victims of a philosophical view (page 59).

“...Precisely because it is impossible to dispense with a philosophy of nature, even present natural science adopts a philosophy of nature. But since it has censored and removed this philosophy at a conscious level, very often reduces itself to using an implicit one, that results from scattered items, is usually unreflected and, practically, is that which was contained in the science of past times but is now insufficient” (Agazzi, 2001:11).

“We should have philosophers trained as philosophers, as rigorously as possible, and at the same time audacious philosophers who cross the borders and discover new connections, new fields, not only interdisciplinary researches but themes that are not even interdisciplinary” (Derrida, 1997:7).

“Philosophical reflection must begin with the analysis of concepts we use; for these provide the frame of reference and determine the direction our inquiry will take” (Von Bertalanffy, 1966:116).

Key Features

• Presents the two options special scientists have.
• Explores how scientists give an account of the philosophical presuppositions with which they work.
• Explores how scientists implicitly proceed from one or another philosophical view of reality.

Contents

• Chapter One: Preliminary Examples
• Chapter Two: The Uniqueness of Science
• Chapter Three: The Uniqueness of Modal Aspects
• Chapter Four: Being Human
• Chapter Five: Inter-modal Coherence
• Chapter Six: The Inter-Disciplinary Significance of Modal Analysis
• Chapter Seven: Things
• Chapter Eight: Human Society
• Chapter Nine: Philosophy is more than merely the “Discipline of the Disciplines”

Product Details

• Title: Philosophy: Discipline of the Disciplines
• Author: D. F. M. Strauss
• Publisher: Paideia Press
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Pages: 699
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9780888152626, 0888152620
• Resource ID: LLS:PHLSPHYDDSCPLNS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-30T22:07:40Z

About D. F. M. Strauss

D.F.M. Strauss was born in 1946 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. At the University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa) he obtained the B.A., B.A. Honours and M.A. Degrees [the M.A. Thesis - on Philosophy and the Special Sciences - was published in 1970 (358 pp.)]. He then went to the Free University of Amsterdam where he completed the theoretical doctoral examination (cum laude) in November 1970 (main subject: systematic philosophy; other subjects: (a) modern philosophy and (b) General Theory of Law and Dutch Penal Law). On December 7, 1973 he defended his Ph.D. dissertation at the Free University - on the distinction between Concept and Idea. (Prof H. Van Riessen was his promoter.) In 1971 he was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the then UFS and in October 1978 he became Head of the Department of Philosophy. From 1994 to 1996 he lived in Canada as the First Director of the Dooyeweerd Centre, assuming at once the position of General Editor of the Collected Works of the Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd. Since April 1, 1998 until December 31, 2001 he was Dean of the newly merged Faculty of Humanities (incorporating the former Faculties of Arts, Education and Social Sciences). Besides 15 publications, presenting papers at 38 International Conferences and contributing 19 chapters to independent works, more than 200 articles from him appeared in National and International Journals.