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Title: |
A Credo for Scientific Inquiry |
| Sub-title: |
On the Shared Ground of Empirical and Contemplative Knowing |
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| By (author): |
Alan Crouch |
| ISBN10-13: |
1923668978 : 9781923668973 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Weight: |
.000 Kg. |
| Published: |
Agathon journal - June 2026 |
| List Price: |
18.99 Pounds Sterling |
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Not yet Published
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| A Credo for Scientific Inquiry: On the Shared Ground of Empirical and Contemplative Knowing is a sustained philosophical and theological argument for the compatibility â and the mutual dependence â of rigorous scientific inquiry and serious contemplative practice. Written at the intersection of philosophy of science, epistemology, and theological reflection, it proposes that both traditions share a constitutive predicament: the human necessity to begin knowing before knowing is complete. From this shared condition of creaturely finitude, the volume develops a Credo of six epistemic commitments â among them the practice of the double patience, the naming of presuppositions, the crossing of boundaries in the direction of discomfort, and the holding of models with appropriate force â each articulated in a main confession and developed in a substantive annotation essay. The volume draws on conversation partners as varied as Thomas Kuhn, Michael Polanyi, Simone Weil, Francis Schaeffer, John Walton, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Helen Longino, and Susan Sontag, and engages the Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, and Abrahamic Hebrew traditions in a cross-traditional survey of epistemic humility. An Afterword gestures toward a second volume, examining what the vocation of inquiry demands of communities of scientific and contemplative practice in the age of the attention economy. |
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