| Welcome to my homepage! My name is Bruce. This website is devoted to Aristotle of Stagira, arguably the most important scientist who ever lived. |
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| Our modern notion of scientific method is thoroughly Aristotelian. Scientific empiricism - the idea that abstract argument must be subordinate to factual evidence, that theory is to be judged before the strict tribunal of observation - now seems a commonplace; but it was not always so, and it is largely due to Aristotle that we understand science to be an empirical pursuit. The point needs emphasizing, if only because Aristotle's most celebrated English critics, Francis Bacon and John Locke, were both staunch empiricists who thought that they were thereby breaking with the Aristotelian tradition. Aristotle was charged with preferring flimsy theories and sterile syllogisms to the solid, fertile facts. But the charge is outrageous; and it was brought by men who did not read Aristotle's own works with sufficient attention and who criticized him for the faults of his successors. |
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Resources: The Ancient Greek World The Philosophy Pages The Continuum of Humanist Education The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Hellenic-Art.com The American Humanist Association The Council for Secular Humanism The Center for Inquiry On Campus Humanistic Texts Peitho's Web (see Diogenes Laertius) The Presocratic Philosophers Aristotle and Aristotelianism | |||||||||||||||||
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