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Hamiltonian Mechanics is not a mere development of Newtonian Mechanics, but is a true "revolution... more Hamiltonian Mechanics is not a mere development of Newtonian Mechanics, but is a true "revolution." It introduces significantly new notions and has new applications relative to Newtonian mechanics. It is not equivalent to Newtonian mechanics in several senses. Various accounts of Equivalence in philosophy of science literature are considered.
Hamiltonian mechanics is a genuine revolution in physics, not a mere application or version of Ne... more Hamiltonian mechanics is a genuine revolution in physics, not a mere application or version of Newtonian mechanics. Hamilton was heavily influenced by Kant in his understandings of mathematics and physics.
W. R. Hamilton's version of mechanics is really a revolutionary change compared with Newtonian me... more W. R. Hamilton's version of mechanics is really a revolutionary change compared with Newtonian mechanics. The shift to a more abstract formulation is quite different from the original Newtonian version. Hamilton also contributed quaternions and the mechanical optical analogy. Hamilton was knowledgeable about and applied Kant's philosophy. Hamilton's theory was not mechanism but a kind of energeticism.
Discusses the extent to which holism in general is associated with Nazism. Looks at views of Bert... more Discusses the extent to which holism in general is associated with Nazism.
Looks at views of Bertrand Russell, the later Lukacs, Ernst Bloch and others.
Papers by Rudolph Dusek
The Philosophical Forum, 1981
A history, survey, critical commentary and bibliography of all the English language literature on... more A history, survey, critical commentary and bibliography of all the English language literature on sociobiology from 1974 to 1980.
Knowing Humanity in the Social World, 2018
This session is on the issues included in Francis Remedios and Val Dusek’s book, which covers Ste... more This session is on the issues included in Francis Remedios and Val Dusek’s book, which covers Steve Fuller’s work since 2000 and will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. Remedios and Dusek argue that Fuller’s vision of social epistemology continues the political and policy focus of his earlier work, but since 2000 it has been increasingly founded in the changing conception of humanity, especially as these project into a ‘post-‘ or ‘trans-‘ human future. We assess Fuller’s work on the following issues: STS, the university and intellectual life, neo-liberal political economy, intelligent design, Cosmism, Gnosticism, agent-oriented epistemology, proactionary vs precautionary principles and Welfare State 2.0. We are especially concerned with Fuller’s response to the changing boundary conditions of the knower due to anticipated changes in humanity coming from the nanosciences, neuroscience, synthetic biology and computer technology. For Fuller, the result is an extended sense of the knower, or ‘humanity 2.0’, which Fuller himself identifies with transhumanism. Other than Fuller’s work, there is no other discussion in the recent literature of sociology STS, philosophy of science, or analytic social epistemology which brings such a wide range of resources and considerations to an assessment of the impact of the technosciences on the concept of humanity – especially the extent to which these changes might constitute ‘improvements’ to the human condition. At the same time, Fuller’s turn in this direction has invited at least as much criticism as his earlier work. The panel will explore these matters from a range of perspectives that correspond to the breadth of Fuller’s work, to which Fuller will then respond.
This chapter is on agent-oriented social epistemology, which emphasizes epistemic agency or the k... more This chapter is on agent-oriented social epistemology, which emphasizes epistemic agency or the knower as ontologically open. This is from Fuller’s move to transhumanist in which to knower is enhanced to become disembodied. Fuller views the epistemic agent to make knowledge to act in the world as contrasted to analytic social epistemology’s epistemic agent, who is a human knower with beliefs and does not make knowledge through construction of reality. There is also a discussion of cognitive economics in which the epistemic agent makes knowledge and leverages beliefs to action instead of the epistemic agent having beliefs to access knowledge.
This chapter is on Fuller’s view that the university is the premier site of knowledge production ... more This chapter is on Fuller’s view that the university is the premier site of knowledge production for the public good. Fuller defends the university against the impact of neoliberalism in which clients influence how academic knowledge is produced. In this context “interdisciplinarity” becomes a battleground. Fuller prefers a version of interdisciplinarity that is regenerative of the university in which academics reach beyond their own fields to a neoliberal version of interdisciplinarity in which academics work in teams for clients on projects. With agent-oriented social epistemology, Fuller’s view of interdisciplinarity is that it is internal to agent to organize the disciplines versus object-oriented social epistemology in which disciplines are organized externally by experts. Fuller’s view of interdisciplinarity is contrasted to Frodeman’s view of transdisciplinarity.
Patrick Heelan, with background in quantum theory and in hermeneutic phenomenology, investigated ... more Patrick Heelan, with background in quantum theory and in hermeneutic phenomenology, investigated not only the hermeneutical philosophy of science but also the parallels between quantum mechanics and human experience in general and the logic of changes of worldview. Heelan’s closeness to Aristotle and Lonergan, often neglected, is discussed, and issues concerning Heelan’s treatment of the social context of science are raised.
Knowing Humanity in the Social World, 2018
This chapter is on an exploration of Fuller’s version of Cosmism. This movement, based in part on... more This chapter is on an exploration of Fuller’s version of Cosmism. This movement, based in part on the Russian Orthodox concept of theosis as moving toward a union with God, advocates space travel and the scientific pursuit of immortality. This resembles Fuller’s humanity 2.0. There are charges of Gnosticism, which is the Christian heresy holding that the creator of the world was an evil creature and God is beyond this realm and with knowledge (gnosis), one can move beyond this world to a higher form of being, against Fuller’s transhumanism. Fuller has been accused of Gnosticism, though the Gnosticism of which he is accused is really eschatology. Fuller himself criticizes biologists who publicly deny biological race differences of being Gnostics. This view is critically analyzed.
2021 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century (21CW), 2021
Norbert Weiner preferred continuous processes and functions to discrete ones. Despite his very ea... more Norbert Weiner preferred continuous processes and functions to discrete ones. Despite his very early proposal for a digital computer, Wiener's stochastic functions and prosthetic devices involved continuous (though often non-differentiable) functions. The contrast between continuous and discrete has pervaded all fields of science. Atomism, both ancient and modern, has had association with competitive social individualism. I suggest that the discrete unit model that pervades most contemporary theory of computation tends to be associated with social individualism. Wiener would have looked askance at the libertarian individualism and lack of a sense of communal cooperation characterizing most of the rise of the internet.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2018
Remedios’s and Dusek’s response to Lynch’s review is that Lynch misreads Fuller on knowledge and ... more Remedios’s and Dusek’s response to Lynch’s review is that Lynch misreads Fuller on knowledge and misdirects his criticism of Fuller’s turn to agency.
Technology and Culture, 2018
OKH Journal: Anthropological Ethnography and Analysis Through the Eyes of Christian Faith, 2019
Choice Reviews Online, 2006
Science For the People, 1984
Discusses how sociobiologists in the 1970s often coyly and ironically discussed rape (Barash) or,... more Discusses how sociobiologists in the 1970s often coyly and ironically discussed rape (Barash) or, more often generalized the notion of rape to fit many behaviors in animals such as males fertilizing eggs that were already outiside the female and even plants (Jansen) where pollinators have chemicals that overcome plants' rejection of pollen so that these can be claimed to be parallel to human rape, though lacking notions of consent in humans.
The Journal of General Education, 2006
ABSTRACT A broadened view of scientific literacy for general education revision is detailed, incl... more ABSTRACT A broadened view of scientific literacy for general education revision is detailed, including the history, philosophy, and sociology of science and science and technology studies. We provide a case study from an interdisciplinary college, argue for the integration of science studies into general education curricula, and discuss barriers to success.
Studies in East European Thought, 2015
ABSTRACT Imre Lakatos gained fame in the English-speaking world as a follower and critic of philo... more ABSTRACT Imre Lakatos gained fame in the English-speaking world as a follower and critic of philosopher of science Karl Popper. However, Lakatos’ background involved other philosophical and scientific sources from his native Hungary. Lakatos surreptitiously used Hegelian Marxism in his works on philosophy of science and mathematics, disguising it with the rhetoric of the Popper school. He also less surreptitiously incorporated, particularly in his treatment of mathematics, work of the strong tradition of heuristics in twentieth century Hungary. Both his Marxism and his emphasis on heuristics contained a view of science and mathematics that contrasted with the mainstream of Anglo-American philosophy of science. Both involved a dynamic view of science, whether historical or psychological, and an emphasis on practice as opposed to static, formal representations of scientific theories.
Hamiltonian Mechanics is not a mere development of Newtonian Mechanics, but is a true "revolution... more Hamiltonian Mechanics is not a mere development of Newtonian Mechanics, but is a true "revolution." It introduces significantly new notions and has new applications relative to Newtonian mechanics. It is not equivalent to Newtonian mechanics in several senses. Various accounts of Equivalence in philosophy of science literature are considered.
Hamiltonian mechanics is a genuine revolution in physics, not a mere application or version of Ne... more Hamiltonian mechanics is a genuine revolution in physics, not a mere application or version of Newtonian mechanics. Hamilton was heavily influenced by Kant in his understandings of mathematics and physics.
W. R. Hamilton's version of mechanics is really a revolutionary change compared with Newtonian me... more W. R. Hamilton's version of mechanics is really a revolutionary change compared with Newtonian mechanics. The shift to a more abstract formulation is quite different from the original Newtonian version. Hamilton also contributed quaternions and the mechanical optical analogy. Hamilton was knowledgeable about and applied Kant's philosophy. Hamilton's theory was not mechanism but a kind of energeticism.
Discusses the extent to which holism in general is associated with Nazism. Looks at views of Bert... more Discusses the extent to which holism in general is associated with Nazism.
Looks at views of Bertrand Russell, the later Lukacs, Ernst Bloch and others.
The Philosophical Forum, 1981
A history, survey, critical commentary and bibliography of all the English language literature on... more A history, survey, critical commentary and bibliography of all the English language literature on sociobiology from 1974 to 1980.
Knowing Humanity in the Social World, 2018
This session is on the issues included in Francis Remedios and Val Dusek’s book, which covers Ste... more This session is on the issues included in Francis Remedios and Val Dusek’s book, which covers Steve Fuller’s work since 2000 and will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. Remedios and Dusek argue that Fuller’s vision of social epistemology continues the political and policy focus of his earlier work, but since 2000 it has been increasingly founded in the changing conception of humanity, especially as these project into a ‘post-‘ or ‘trans-‘ human future. We assess Fuller’s work on the following issues: STS, the university and intellectual life, neo-liberal political economy, intelligent design, Cosmism, Gnosticism, agent-oriented epistemology, proactionary vs precautionary principles and Welfare State 2.0. We are especially concerned with Fuller’s response to the changing boundary conditions of the knower due to anticipated changes in humanity coming from the nanosciences, neuroscience, synthetic biology and computer technology. For Fuller, the result is an extended sense of the knower, or ‘humanity 2.0’, which Fuller himself identifies with transhumanism. Other than Fuller’s work, there is no other discussion in the recent literature of sociology STS, philosophy of science, or analytic social epistemology which brings such a wide range of resources and considerations to an assessment of the impact of the technosciences on the concept of humanity – especially the extent to which these changes might constitute ‘improvements’ to the human condition. At the same time, Fuller’s turn in this direction has invited at least as much criticism as his earlier work. The panel will explore these matters from a range of perspectives that correspond to the breadth of Fuller’s work, to which Fuller will then respond.
This chapter is on agent-oriented social epistemology, which emphasizes epistemic agency or the k... more This chapter is on agent-oriented social epistemology, which emphasizes epistemic agency or the knower as ontologically open. This is from Fuller’s move to transhumanist in which to knower is enhanced to become disembodied. Fuller views the epistemic agent to make knowledge to act in the world as contrasted to analytic social epistemology’s epistemic agent, who is a human knower with beliefs and does not make knowledge through construction of reality. There is also a discussion of cognitive economics in which the epistemic agent makes knowledge and leverages beliefs to action instead of the epistemic agent having beliefs to access knowledge.
This chapter is on Fuller’s view that the university is the premier site of knowledge production ... more This chapter is on Fuller’s view that the university is the premier site of knowledge production for the public good. Fuller defends the university against the impact of neoliberalism in which clients influence how academic knowledge is produced. In this context “interdisciplinarity” becomes a battleground. Fuller prefers a version of interdisciplinarity that is regenerative of the university in which academics reach beyond their own fields to a neoliberal version of interdisciplinarity in which academics work in teams for clients on projects. With agent-oriented social epistemology, Fuller’s view of interdisciplinarity is that it is internal to agent to organize the disciplines versus object-oriented social epistemology in which disciplines are organized externally by experts. Fuller’s view of interdisciplinarity is contrasted to Frodeman’s view of transdisciplinarity.
Patrick Heelan, with background in quantum theory and in hermeneutic phenomenology, investigated ... more Patrick Heelan, with background in quantum theory and in hermeneutic phenomenology, investigated not only the hermeneutical philosophy of science but also the parallels between quantum mechanics and human experience in general and the logic of changes of worldview. Heelan’s closeness to Aristotle and Lonergan, often neglected, is discussed, and issues concerning Heelan’s treatment of the social context of science are raised.
Knowing Humanity in the Social World, 2018
This chapter is on an exploration of Fuller’s version of Cosmism. This movement, based in part on... more This chapter is on an exploration of Fuller’s version of Cosmism. This movement, based in part on the Russian Orthodox concept of theosis as moving toward a union with God, advocates space travel and the scientific pursuit of immortality. This resembles Fuller’s humanity 2.0. There are charges of Gnosticism, which is the Christian heresy holding that the creator of the world was an evil creature and God is beyond this realm and with knowledge (gnosis), one can move beyond this world to a higher form of being, against Fuller’s transhumanism. Fuller has been accused of Gnosticism, though the Gnosticism of which he is accused is really eschatology. Fuller himself criticizes biologists who publicly deny biological race differences of being Gnostics. This view is critically analyzed.
2021 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century (21CW), 2021
Norbert Weiner preferred continuous processes and functions to discrete ones. Despite his very ea... more Norbert Weiner preferred continuous processes and functions to discrete ones. Despite his very early proposal for a digital computer, Wiener's stochastic functions and prosthetic devices involved continuous (though often non-differentiable) functions. The contrast between continuous and discrete has pervaded all fields of science. Atomism, both ancient and modern, has had association with competitive social individualism. I suggest that the discrete unit model that pervades most contemporary theory of computation tends to be associated with social individualism. Wiener would have looked askance at the libertarian individualism and lack of a sense of communal cooperation characterizing most of the rise of the internet.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2018
Remedios’s and Dusek’s response to Lynch’s review is that Lynch misreads Fuller on knowledge and ... more Remedios’s and Dusek’s response to Lynch’s review is that Lynch misreads Fuller on knowledge and misdirects his criticism of Fuller’s turn to agency.
Technology and Culture, 2018
OKH Journal: Anthropological Ethnography and Analysis Through the Eyes of Christian Faith, 2019
Choice Reviews Online, 2006
Science For the People, 1984
Discusses how sociobiologists in the 1970s often coyly and ironically discussed rape (Barash) or,... more Discusses how sociobiologists in the 1970s often coyly and ironically discussed rape (Barash) or, more often generalized the notion of rape to fit many behaviors in animals such as males fertilizing eggs that were already outiside the female and even plants (Jansen) where pollinators have chemicals that overcome plants' rejection of pollen so that these can be claimed to be parallel to human rape, though lacking notions of consent in humans.
The Journal of General Education, 2006
ABSTRACT A broadened view of scientific literacy for general education revision is detailed, incl... more ABSTRACT A broadened view of scientific literacy for general education revision is detailed, including the history, philosophy, and sociology of science and science and technology studies. We provide a case study from an interdisciplinary college, argue for the integration of science studies into general education curricula, and discuss barriers to success.
Studies in East European Thought, 2015
ABSTRACT Imre Lakatos gained fame in the English-speaking world as a follower and critic of philo... more ABSTRACT Imre Lakatos gained fame in the English-speaking world as a follower and critic of philosopher of science Karl Popper. However, Lakatos’ background involved other philosophical and scientific sources from his native Hungary. Lakatos surreptitiously used Hegelian Marxism in his works on philosophy of science and mathematics, disguising it with the rhetoric of the Popper school. He also less surreptitiously incorporated, particularly in his treatment of mathematics, work of the strong tradition of heuristics in twentieth century Hungary. Both his Marxism and his emphasis on heuristics contained a view of science and mathematics that contrasted with the mainstream of Anglo-American philosophy of science. Both involved a dynamic view of science, whether historical or psychological, and an emphasis on practice as opposed to static, formal representations of scientific theories.
Philosophy in Review, 1999
Science for the people
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The Holistic Inspirations of Physics, 1999
The Chinese language has propensities toward treatment of the world as a continuum, and to the de... more The Chinese language has propensities toward treatment of the world as a continuum, and to the denial of separate, internal ideas or external, abstract propositions. The lines between poetry and prose, art and science are blurred by the ideographic nature of Chinese writing. The first and last of these characteristics of Chinese, especially, make a holistic approach to reality easier than in Indo-European languages.