Steven M Rosen
I received my Ph.D. in Psychology from the City University of New York and am currently Emeritus Professor at CUNY/Staten Island. During my tenure at CUNY, I offered courses in both the Psychology and Philosophy Departments. My writing has focused on a phenomenological approach to the philosophy of science, especially to the philosophy of physics and mathematics. Other interests reflected in my work include cultural evolution, process and non-Western philosophies, and Jungian thought. I am also keenly interested in embodied communication and community.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00796107/119/3
Preparing this ambitious Special Issue has challenged everyone involved: authors, reviewers, and guest editors. The editors solicited contributions from many leading figures in a broad array of scientific and philosophical disciplines, with emphasis on phenomenological approaches to philosophy (Section I). The motivating force was the conviction that if we could find a viable bridge for the gap between the " two cultures " 1 of science and philosophy, fundamental problems in each camp could be addressed more fruitfully than ever before, and a new kind of science be born. We believe the unprecedented cross-fertilization of ideas from this initiative may furnish seeds from which that new, better integrated, and more effective approach to science may arise. This Special Issue consists of forty papers. For each one, multiple reviewers were solicited, with at least one reviewer from each " culture " (a scientist and a philosopher). In many cases, several rounds of revision were carried out. Needless to say, this required great patience and dedication of all participants. The editors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of our authors, and of our anonymous reviewers, who worked long and hard on the papers we sent them with no compensation for their efforts. We also wish to thank the Elsevier editorial and production team for the support they gave us in bringing this project to fruition. We hope the reader will find this effort to marry science and philosophy both meaningful and enjoyable. We would now like to offer a synoptic overview of the Special Issue, section by section and paper by paper.
Table of contents:
List of Figures
Jon MILLS: Foreword
Preface
Part One - Solve : The Flight from Apeiron
ONE The Rise and Fall of Classical Space
TWO The Crisis of Discontinuity in the Broader Culture
Part Two - Coagula: The Return to Apeiron
THREE Philosophical Precursors
FOUR Apeiron and Being
FIVE Topology
Epilogue
Works Cited
About the Author
Index
Table of Contents
Foreword by Montague Ullman
Preface
I. The Moebius Principle in Science and Philosophy
Introduction
1. The Unity of Being and Becoming (1975)
2. Synsymmetry (1975)
3. Creative Evolution (1980)
4. The Concept of the Infinite and the Crisis in Modern Physics (1983)
5. A Neo-Intuitive Proposal for Kaluza-Klein Unification (1988)
6. The Paradox of Mind and Matter: Utterly Different Yet One and the Same (1992)
II. The Moebius Principle in Parapsychology
Introduction
7. A Case of Non-Euclidean Visualization (1974)
8. Toward a Representation of the "Irrepresentable" (1977)
9. Psi Modeling and the Psychophysical Problem (1983)
10. Parapsychology's "Four Cultures": Can the Schism Be Mended? (1984)
11. Psi and the Principle of Nondual Duality (1987)
III. Dialogues with David Bohm
Introduction
12. David Bohm's Wholeness and the Implicate Order: An Interpretive Essay (1982)
13. The Bohm/Rosen Correspondence (1983)
14. Time and Higher-order Wholeness: A Response to David Bohm (1984)
Epilogue: The Limitations of Language and the Need for a "Moebial" Way of Writing
Notes
Bibliography
Credit Acknowledgments
Index
Papers by Steven M Rosen
Having heard a lecture by his younger colleague Wolfgang Pauli, the renowned physicist Niels Bohr is said to have commented: " We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. " Many contemporary physicists acknowledge that the phenomena of their field are so odd, the problems so befuddling to our current ways of thinking, that only a completely " crazy " theoretical approach to them has any possibility of success. But resolving the problems of modern physics may require something " crazier " still—not just an entirely new theory, but a whole new philosophical base, a new way of intuiting the world. The general features of quantum mechanics are widely known. At the heart of the matter is Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle. If you throw a ball into the air, in principle you are able to pinpoint both its position in space from moment to moment and the velocity with which it is traveling. But, in probing the subatomic world, the focus of physical reality softens and blurs and you are no longer able to be entirely certain about the locations and velocities of the tiny bits of matter found there. Why does reality lose its focus in the microworld? It is because, at this level of nature, the very act of observing a particle significantly affects the particle observed. So the fundamental uncertainty of quantum physics—an indeterminacy that no refinement of measuring instruments can eliminate—brings to light the intimate interaction of observer and observed, subject and object, mind and matter. No doubt the radical interaction of subject and object in the microworld flies in the face of mainstream objectivist science, which has been deeply committed to keeping subject and object apart. Has this led physicists to call for a fundamental change in science's posture? By and large it has not. Physics still operates on a set of unspoken assumptions, an underlying philosophical base that is incompatible with
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00796107/119/3
Preparing this ambitious Special Issue has challenged everyone involved: authors, reviewers, and guest editors. The editors solicited contributions from many leading figures in a broad array of scientific and philosophical disciplines, with emphasis on phenomenological approaches to philosophy (Section I). The motivating force was the conviction that if we could find a viable bridge for the gap between the " two cultures " 1 of science and philosophy, fundamental problems in each camp could be addressed more fruitfully than ever before, and a new kind of science be born. We believe the unprecedented cross-fertilization of ideas from this initiative may furnish seeds from which that new, better integrated, and more effective approach to science may arise. This Special Issue consists of forty papers. For each one, multiple reviewers were solicited, with at least one reviewer from each " culture " (a scientist and a philosopher). In many cases, several rounds of revision were carried out. Needless to say, this required great patience and dedication of all participants. The editors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of our authors, and of our anonymous reviewers, who worked long and hard on the papers we sent them with no compensation for their efforts. We also wish to thank the Elsevier editorial and production team for the support they gave us in bringing this project to fruition. We hope the reader will find this effort to marry science and philosophy both meaningful and enjoyable. We would now like to offer a synoptic overview of the Special Issue, section by section and paper by paper.
Table of contents:
List of Figures
Jon MILLS: Foreword
Preface
Part One - Solve : The Flight from Apeiron
ONE The Rise and Fall of Classical Space
TWO The Crisis of Discontinuity in the Broader Culture
Part Two - Coagula: The Return to Apeiron
THREE Philosophical Precursors
FOUR Apeiron and Being
FIVE Topology
Epilogue
Works Cited
About the Author
Index
Table of Contents
Foreword by Montague Ullman
Preface
I. The Moebius Principle in Science and Philosophy
Introduction
1. The Unity of Being and Becoming (1975)
2. Synsymmetry (1975)
3. Creative Evolution (1980)
4. The Concept of the Infinite and the Crisis in Modern Physics (1983)
5. A Neo-Intuitive Proposal for Kaluza-Klein Unification (1988)
6. The Paradox of Mind and Matter: Utterly Different Yet One and the Same (1992)
II. The Moebius Principle in Parapsychology
Introduction
7. A Case of Non-Euclidean Visualization (1974)
8. Toward a Representation of the "Irrepresentable" (1977)
9. Psi Modeling and the Psychophysical Problem (1983)
10. Parapsychology's "Four Cultures": Can the Schism Be Mended? (1984)
11. Psi and the Principle of Nondual Duality (1987)
III. Dialogues with David Bohm
Introduction
12. David Bohm's Wholeness and the Implicate Order: An Interpretive Essay (1982)
13. The Bohm/Rosen Correspondence (1983)
14. Time and Higher-order Wholeness: A Response to David Bohm (1984)
Epilogue: The Limitations of Language and the Need for a "Moebial" Way of Writing
Notes
Bibliography
Credit Acknowledgments
Index
Having heard a lecture by his younger colleague Wolfgang Pauli, the renowned physicist Niels Bohr is said to have commented: " We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. " Many contemporary physicists acknowledge that the phenomena of their field are so odd, the problems so befuddling to our current ways of thinking, that only a completely " crazy " theoretical approach to them has any possibility of success. But resolving the problems of modern physics may require something " crazier " still—not just an entirely new theory, but a whole new philosophical base, a new way of intuiting the world. The general features of quantum mechanics are widely known. At the heart of the matter is Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle. If you throw a ball into the air, in principle you are able to pinpoint both its position in space from moment to moment and the velocity with which it is traveling. But, in probing the subatomic world, the focus of physical reality softens and blurs and you are no longer able to be entirely certain about the locations and velocities of the tiny bits of matter found there. Why does reality lose its focus in the microworld? It is because, at this level of nature, the very act of observing a particle significantly affects the particle observed. So the fundamental uncertainty of quantum physics—an indeterminacy that no refinement of measuring instruments can eliminate—brings to light the intimate interaction of observer and observed, subject and object, mind and matter. No doubt the radical interaction of subject and object in the microworld flies in the face of mainstream objectivist science, which has been deeply committed to keeping subject and object apart. Has this led physicists to call for a fundamental change in science's posture? By and large it has not. Physics still operates on a set of unspoken assumptions, an underlying philosophical base that is incompatible with
interactions among organisms, and between organisms and the environments in which they dwell, are mediated by the flow of feelings. In bringing home his point, Jawer draws attention to exceptional individuals and extraordinary experiences - the experiences of savants, people with synesthesia and autism, prodigies, those who have suffered from PTSD, and those who appear to display remarkable psychic abilities. Jawer suggests that all such individuals possess “heightened physical
and emotional sensitivities.” My overall impression of this book is
favorable. The cases described are fascinating and I applaud Jawer’s challenge to the mainstream medical model and his advocacy of a non-dualistic approach to psychology, science, and philosophy. But he does paint with a broad brush. In part, this may reflect his intention of reaching a large-market popular audience. Sensitive Soul is, after all, a trade book, so perhaps the implicit constraints of the business model may have placed the emphasis on engaging anecdotes, with the development of key conceptual issues kept to a minimum. Still and all, I found this book of value and I enjoyed reading it.