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The Marriage of Sense and Thought: Imaginative Participation in Science

By Stephan Edelglass
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By Stephan Edelglass

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Having 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 h...

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