I have become a fan Stephen Toulmin (1922–2009), philosopher of science. I learned of Toulmin in January when I watched this 3½ hour YouTube roundtable discussion on metaphysics.
After reading Toulmin's 1953 The Philosophy of Science: An Introduction, I felt sure that book was misnamed. No way is it an introduction.
It is the deepest and most difficult book I have read in
philosophy of science. Also, since I felt sure that he was saying something
and that I might be able to understand some of it, I returned to page
one and read the whole again a second time. He teaches me about what I am
trying to do in this project of mine to write a book about the Resource-Patterns Model of Life. I would like to
correspond with others who know Toulmin's work.
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