Bruce and colleagues;
on a first quick read your analysis, and criteria for identifying spurious
formalisation ventures are
very plausible, indeed are impressive.
One area worth more work is I think your brief paragraph on Constructivist
versus Realist approaches.
It seems to me you might enjoy and the whole field could benefit
from your engaging with the contemporary school of
"Critical Realists" Notably led by Roy Bhaskar.
The critical realists argue that the work of science is to construct models
of the underlying `real' generative mechanisms which
give rise to various experiences and observations, but which certainly are
not mere statistical models of regularities in empirical observations.
See for example the website for Critical Realism:
<http://www.raggedclaws.com/criticalrealism/>
Gary Boyd.
At 12:15 28/09/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>Please can I have comments upon the following paper?
>
>
> The Purpose and Place of Formal Systems in the
> Development of Science
>
>CPM Report No.: 00-75
>By: Bruce Edmonds
>Date: 28th Septmeber 2000
Professor Gary Boyd, Education (Educational Technology Graduate Programme)
Concordia University,
1455 DeMaisonneuve West, Montreal, Quebec Canada H3G 1M8.
<boydg@vax2.concordia.ca> tel.(514)848-3459, fax(514)848-4520.
homepage <http://alcor.concordia.ca/~boydg/ >
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