Culture: Philosophy: MD Stafleu physiscist and philosopher of the natural sciences

available in PDF format on the Internet




Marinus Dirk Stafleu, 


reformational philosopher of science and nature


apparently not   a   n e w     b o o k, 


but Wow! 


strongly recommended by refWrite


A World of Relations (2001, translation by the author 2002) 278 pages. Scribd 

A scientific world-view is a complex of usually unprovable, mostly normative, sometimes plausible and sometimes controversial views about the presuppositions and methods of science. Laudan 1977, 58:‘Every practicing scientist, past and present, adheres to certain views about how science should be
performed, about what counts as an adequate explanation, about the use of experimental controls, and the like.These norms, which a scientist brings to bear in his assessment of theories, have been perhaps the single major source for most of the controversies in the history of science, and for the generation of many of the most acute conceptual problems with which scientists have had to cope.’

See Margenau 1950, 12- 16; Dijksterhuis 1950; Hanson 1958; Kuhn 1962, chapter X and Postscript 1969; Toulmin 1972; Suppe 1977, chapter V.

-- Marinus Dirk Stafleu, philosopher of science and nature
-- in his online book (PDF option), page of 278


A World Full of Relations: 
Character and meaning of natural things and events


-- posted by Owlb