Philosophy 224 - PHIL/HIST/SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT

Topics Course Pluralism is the general idea that some natural phenomena cannot be fully explained by a single theory or fully investigated using a single approach. Multiple approaches are required. Is a pluralistic approach necessarily only a temporary state of affairs, or are there some phenomena that can never be encompassed within single, comprehensive representation? Should the aims, methods and results of sciences that are currently pluralistic be understood or evaluated in reference to the quest for a fundamental, unified, monistic grail? Examples will be drawn from the numerous sciences of the study of behavior and of the environment.

Topic: Pluralism.