Tag: Theory

• August 14, 2012

  Inquiry is not theory…

  Excerpt from The Art of Inquiry, Chapter 1. * 1.2. Inquiry is not Theory A theory can either provide a general explanation for particular phenomena or offer principles for action. In physics, the search for the Theory of Everything implies that the scientist wishes to arrive at a total explanation of all physical phenomena. His desire…
• May 12, 2012

  Kant’s tribunal (V)

  V One of Hegel’s enigmatic theses from the Preface to The Philosophy of Right is that the actual is rational. The contemporary scholar Robert Pippin glosses this proposition–rightly, in my view–as a demand that being be intelligible. As human beings, we long for order in reality so much so that is scarcely conceivable that we…