The main challenge of applying the Middle Way to science is that of using scientific method with consistent provisionality, and thus to investigate experience without making naturalistic claims (see ‘The Middle Way for Scientific Naturalists’). Commitment to a particular theoretical model also needs to be balanced.
We will link here all pages and posts on this site that relate to scientific method, the history of science and the physical sciences (physics, chemistry and biology).
Pages and blogs
Introductory video 1c: The Middle Way and Science
Homeostasis in relation to the Middle Way
The Third Phase (the idea that the Middle Way offers a new phase in scientific development)
Blog post: Science and the Middle Way (an objective model) by Richard Flanagan
Podcasts
Podcast Interview with Rupert Sheldrake
Podcast interview with Jean Boulton on complexity theory
Podcast Interview with Rubin Naiman on sleep
Podcast interview with Baroness Susan Greenfield on the effects of digital technology on the mind
Podcast interview with Michael Brooks (science writer) on the role of science
Podcast interview with Marc Lewis (neuroscientist specialising in addiction)
Podcast interview with Sharon Begley on the emotional life of your brain
Reviews
Review of Marc Lewis’s book ‘The Biology of Desire’
Review of Marc Lewis’s book ‘Memoirs of an addicted brain’
Review of ‘The Science Delusion’ by Rupert Sheldrake