An Intentional Scientific Attitude Towards The Outer Operating Environment PDF 2024

An Intentional Scientific Attitude towards the Outer Operating Environment ESTBO1 2024 – ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY JIMacLellan -- ESTB01H3F (Copyright 2015, 2016, 2017) 13  MacLellan and Mitchell 2016...

An Intentional Scientific Attitude towards the Outer Operating Environment ESTBO1 2024 – ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY JIMacLellan -- ESTB01H3F (Copyright 2015, 2016, 2017) 13  MacLellan and Mitchell 2016 The Greeks began to question the divine ‘models’ of the environment …and intentionally propose new models. MACLELLAN 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019  MacLellan and Mitchell 2016 Aristotle’s insights lead us towards process rather than pure ideals of nature how nature should work … and yet traditional views of nature continue to this day (see Glacken). MACLELLAN 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019  MacLellan and Mitchell 2016 And yet … despite Aristotle’s methodologies … the traditional views of nature continued to dominate discourse right into the middle ages. MACLELLAN 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019  MacLellan and Mitchell 2016 He also ascribes value to knowledge in the New Atlantis. Knowledge is power … in the context of human aspirations. Resurrecting Aristotle’s methods, Francis Bacon wipes the slate clean and describes why its hard to eliminate bias. Idols of the Mind: Tribe, Market, Cave, Theatre. MACLELLAN 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019  The agent is subject to chronic bias: Idols of the Tribe Idols of the Market Place Idols of the Cave Idols of the Theatre MACLELLAN 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019  MacLellan and Mitchell 2016 So, start off with self- reflection and doubt, then reduce (i.e. reductionism) the complexity of the environment by considering small sections, portions, processes or elements of the environment. Observe and describe. MACLELLAN 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019  MacLellan and Mitchell 2016 Essentially, we now have a blank slate, and a language to examine our operating environment... Mathematics turned out to be a very powerful way of describing the universe – partially addressing the limitations associated with Bacon’s Idols of the Marketplace. MACLELLAN 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019