Introduction to 'Evolution & the humanities' | Blogitem

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Shaun Johnston:
In modern times we've made two revolutionary discoveries. One is, how changes in physical matter can be accounted for in terms of physical laws that can predict precisely what will happen next. Having given rise to science (how this can be studied) and industry (how it can be applied) this revolution is well under way.

The second revolution is, how emergence of species of living creatures can be accounted for in terms of them evolving from one another. This revolution, despite its promise of how much it could tell us about ourselves, remains stillborn through the mistaken application to it of principles coming out of the first revolution--reductive physicalism.

For this second revolution to advance it should be taken from under the wing of science and studied on its own terms. Tip: one recent product of evolution is creatures with minds. Minds are better studied through methods of the humanities than through those of science. Tell me, does this interest you?

Introduction to "Evolution & the humanities"

Details: Written by Shaun Johnston Shaun Johnston; Published: May 18, 2017 May 18, 2017; Hits: 2307 2307

What's the premise of this site? That it's time for the humanities to take over defining what it means we evolved. With science's abandonment of "the modern synthesis" attention can shift to the experience of being evolved, how knowing we evolved may affect the development of conscious thinking over a lifetime, the humanities' traditional subject matter. This golden opportunity is spelled out in a new "Introduction" to our "Humanities and Evolution" section. A summary of the resources gathered in this site is linked to from the menuitem "About" at the top of each page.