Causality and Conservation
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How do we find order in the ever-changing and fleeting appearances with which we are continually presented? How can we think change in a coherent way – i.e. without betraying the stringency of thinking as an act guided by its own norms? This is one of the most basic questions that shaped Western philosophy as a field with its own set of characteristic problems to which any philosopher is forced to return. At the same time it is also a question that any “researcher” actually engaged in the search for order implicitly has to answer through her specific ways of going about in trying to achieve her aim. This is not to claim that she is actually aware of the nature of her engagement, nor that this need to be more than a very tentative approach; but without some norm-bounded practice the research cannot even get off the ground. It is clear that these two perspectives – let’s call them the meta-physical and the natural-philosophical – mutually interact and cannot always be neatly separated. In their most fruitful moments new kinds of natural-philosophical investigations can act as a kind of cognitive experiments in gauging the field of possible meta-physical answers, whereas these answers can in their turn further guide or inspire (or even help stabilize the basic framework of) the researches in the order of the natural world. Taking this interaction seriously implies that we should be careful in separating what we are used to call the history of science from the history of philosophy; but even more importantly, that we can only separate our interest in the most basic philosophical questions from the history of philosophy and science at our own peril. If we want to understand how we can think change in a coherent way, we can do no better than start by reflecting on the nature of the research practices in which we have engaged throughout history, and especially on how we have come to change their internal logic in our attempts to gain a better (or more suitable) grip on the ever-changing and fleeting
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تاریخ انتشار 2008