Philosophy & Science
A text that looks at the philosophy of science is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn.
There is, I think, no theory-independent way to reconstruct phrases like ‘really there’; the notion of a match between the ontology of a theory and its ‘real’ counterpart in nature now seems to me illusive in principle.”
Discussions of Buddhism and Science can be found in Alan Wallace’s collection of essays, Buddhism & Science.
It is true that Buddhism fails to fit neatly into any of our categories of religion, philosophy, and science, for the simple reason that it did not develop in the West, where these concepts originated and evolved. Buddhism offers something fresh and in some ways unprecedented to our civilization, and one of its major contributions is its wide range of techniques for exploring and transforming the mind through firsthand experience.”
Another excellent look at Buddhism and Science can be found in the Dalai Lama’s The Universe in a Single Atom.
The notion of a pre-given, observer-independent reality is untenable. As in the new physics, matter cannot be objectively perceived or described apart from the observer—matter and mind are co-dependent.”
