In its search for causal explanations, modern science has increasingly come to focus on particles, genes, and other hypothetical elements that lie beyond direct human experience. This reductionist approach has led to powerful new technologies, but it has failed to give us an understanding of nature as we can actually experience it in its richness and depthA Goethean, phenomenological approach to physics reconnects human experience with scientific inquiry.

The Physics of Human Experience (Adonis Press)

Science & Math

Edelglass, Stephen

Physics

Adonis Press

In this study, the four authors all of whom have been involved in the teaching and practice of science challenge the assumption of the detached observer in scientific research and present examples of a phenomenological approach that includes an awareness of the role of the human knower in the development of scientific concepts. Published by Lindisfarne Press, RR 4 Box 94 A1, Hudson, New York 12534. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Matter and Mind: Imaginative Participation in Science

Maier, Georg

Gebert, Hans

Davy, John

Lindisfarne Pr

Few would question the fact that sense experience originally provided a firm basis for empirical natural science. Yet contemporary science has reduced the world to particles and forces that lie well beyond the reach of our human senses. The extraordinary -- and alienating -- fact is that human experience no longer has a place within our scientific worldview.
The authors of this book, a revised edition of Matter and Mind, have begun to unravel this paradox. They show that the concepts of modern physics such as mass, force, or velocity are deeply rooted in the experience of specific senses. Each of our senses is a gateway into a different aspect of the world. This insight throws a new light on the dilemmas of contemporary science, such as the wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics.
By recognizing the essential role of sense perception in scientific knowledge, this highly readable book lays the foundations for a science that, while maintaining its rigorous methodology, can begin to incorporate the fullness of human experience into its domain.

Marriage of Sense and Thought (Renewal in Science)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Lindisfarne Books

“In this brilliant book, the authors build a fascinating bridge between science and the world of the senses, a bridge that holds great promise for overcoming the fragmentation and alienation that is so characteristic of our time.” ―Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life “Likely to change many readers' comprehension of science.” ―Arthur Zajonc, author of Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes LoveHaving imagined a machine-like world, scientists now haunt this machine uneasily. Their plight is paradoxical: they have realized their world only through intense mental effort, yet this effort finds no legitimate place in the world it so painstakingly comprehends. It seems “objectivity” only comes at a cost. Why, for example, is science unable to describe a smile? Why is the moral life of a physicist regarded as his or her own private affair? This exclusion of human qualities from science has practical as well as theoretical consequences. If we systematically imagine a world in which human beings don’t exist, we will eventually create a world in which they cannot exist. Reclaiming the human sources of scientific insight, the authors of this book restore the scientist to the world given by science and celebrate the joyous marriage of sense and thought.

The Marriage of Sense and Thought: Imaginative Participation in Science (Renewal in Science)

Teaching Physics through experiences is a hallmark of Waldorf education. Michael D'Aleo and Stephen Edelglass capture in this book a procedure and description of what "phenomenological science" is and how it can bring middle school students to a real life learning experience that will stimulate observation and wonder, not only conclusions. Conclusions that come arise from the actual experiences of scientific events, not from theories memorized. Step by step experiments offer teachers and parents living examples of how to approach science in this lively, real-life way.This book is a must for Waldorf class teachers and an added plus for other teachers and for parents, too! Explore the world of science through observation, sensory skill and experience by using this book as a guide.

Sensible Physics Teaching

Education & Teaching

D'Aleo, Michael

Schools & Teaching

Waldorf Publications

This book was conceived as a phenomenological approach to knowledge -- that is, a study of the world in terms of its immediate phenomena. Since the sciences -- today often just taught by computer -- are moving further and further away from sensible perception the question arises: What is lost when knowing is separated from experience? In the academic classroom the answer to this question can sometimes appear to be »nothing«, but in actual practice, researchers will often put stress on the need for a handson apprenticeship before the new member of the team can even read their manuals properly. Practice as opposed to theory, still demands perceptual experience, but in stated theory there is no account of the component that only experience can provide. In attempting to give such an account, the authors concentrate on three aspects of experience. The first is the mental activity by which we attend to a particular phenomenon -- the activity by which we understand and pick out the phenomenon for consideration. The second is the aesthetic organization of phenomena. Phenomena are unified wholes rather than mere collections of parts, and the recognition of wholes is an aesthetic activity. The third aspect of experience the authors investigate, is its ability to motivate the experiencing individual. Moral responsibility needs to be grounded in the meaning of individual experience, but this requires a recognition of meaning -- hardly possible when we are preoccupied with abstract, universal laws to the exclusion of those particular events that comprise our biographies.

Being on Earth: Practice in Tending the Appearances (Phanomenologie in Der Naturwissenschaft)

Brady, Ronald

Logos Verlag

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