Science for Humans (eBook)

This book presents and defends an original and paradigm-shifting conception of formal science, natural science, and the natural universe alike, that's fully pro-science, but at the same time neither theological or God-centered, nor solipsistic or self-centered, nor communitarian or social-institution-centered, nor scientistic or science-valorizing, nor materialist/physicalist or reductive, nor-above all-mechanistic. It does this by presenting and defending what Robert Hanna calls the neo-organicist turn, including manifest realism and the three sub-parts of metaphysical organicism: liberal naturalism, mind-life continuity, and explanatory inversion, whereby mechanical systems are explained by grounding them in organic systems, and not the other way around. Or more briefly and simply put, the purpose of this book is to present and defend science for humans. As such, it will be highly interesting and profoundly relevant to graduate students and specialist researchers in philosophy and the formal-&-natural sciences.

Robert Hanna is a philosophical generalist with a broadly Kantian orientation, and the author or co-author of thirteen books, including Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy (Oxford Univ. Press, 2001), Kant, Science, and Human Nature (Oxford Univ. Press, 2006), Rationality and Logic (MIT Press, 2006), Embodied Minds in Action (co-authored with M. Maiese, Oxford Univ. Press, 2009), In Defense of Intuitions: A New Rationalist Manifesto (co-authored with A. Chapman, A. Ellis, T. Hildebrand, and H. Pickford, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Cognition, Content, and the A Priori (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015, aka THE RATIONAL HUMAN CONDITION, Vol. 5), the first four volumes of THE RATIONAL HUMAN CONDITION-including Preface and General Introduction (RHC vol. 1, Nova Science, 2018), Deep Freedom and Real Persons (RHC vol. 2, Nova Science, 2018), Kantian Ethics and Human Existence (RHC vol. 3, Nova Science, 2018), and Kant, Agnosticism, and Anarchism (RHC vol. 4, Nova Science, 2018)-The Mind-Body Politic (co-authored with Michelle Maiese, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), The Fate of Analysis (Mad Duck Coalition, 2021), and Digital Technology Only Within The Limits of Human Dignity (Walter de Gruyter, forthcoming). He has held research or teaching positions at the University of Cambridge UK, the University of Colorado at Boulder USA, the University of Luxembourg LU, PUC-PR Brazil, Yale University USA, and York University, Canada, and is also a Life Member of Clare Hall College (since 1999) and Fitzwilliam College (since 2009), both at the University of Cambridge. Currently, he's an independent philosopher, Director of the online philosophy mega-project Philosophy Without Borders, Director of The Contemporary Kantian Philosophy Project, and also edits two online journals, Borderless Philosophy and Contemporary Studies in Kantian Philosophy.