Phillip Romero must have been trained in scientific methods to have become qualified as a doctor of western medicine specializing in child and family psychiatry. Such training entails considerable conditioning in what is known as scientific method, or a way of arriving at conclusions through a process of logical reasoning based on empirical observation.
Traditionally, philosophers have seen large discrepancies between the arts and the sciences. Some scientists have tended to arrogate measurable advances in knowledge to themselves, thinking that scientific method is the one and only reputable way of extrapolation. Scientists seek measurable outcomes but artists seem to be otherwise motivated. The doctor in question seeks to reconcile what many would see as irreconcilable.
Romero is one scientist who has refused to wall himself in behind scientific method. Instead he has accepted the fact that the creation of art has been an aspect of human behavior since the earliest times and has searched for an explanation of why and how art has been a driving passion since so persistently. The motivation behind science is fairly obvious. Scientists seek concrete outcomes and set up means to measure what they observe and achieve. The manufacture and deployment of an atomic bomb has an explicit manifestation. An artistic interpretation of the bomb is less easy to explain.
The word 'consilience' was apparently first used in the nineteenth century but it has never threatened to become a buzz word, perhaps because it denotes a difficult concept. The idea that the same conclusion can be arrived at by different means tends not to be popular among academic disciplines where discrete ways of working are jealously guarded. For example, sports people and dancers may come to the same conclusions about human movement but keep their disciplines distinct.
A reason for the rare use of this word might be that academia is not particularly fond of letting down the curtains around various disciplines. People who have become world experts in arcane fields may have got there by following the strict rules of their discipline. They may not be enthusiastic about consilience, preferring the comfort zones of established disciplines.
It may be honesty, or the blinding light of free speech generated by the Internet that has pushed the concept of consilience forward to the front of the academic stage. It cannot be ignored now that open information reveals how different disciplines arrive at the same conclusions though they proceed from entirely different premises.
One of the theories that plays a part in Romero's consilient approach is the theory of attachment first put forward by John Bowlby, a development psychologist. He postulated that an infant is in need of a significant relationship in order to pass through a significant phase in intellectual development. This might seem like common sense to many people but in academia the truth is rarely simple or briefly articulated.
In his quest to explain how the passion for art is an imperative of human survival Phillip Romero employs a a consilient approach. He draws on various disciplines including psychiatric medicine, biology and art history to develop a theory that the artistic instinct is an essential attribute in human survival.
Traditionally, philosophers have seen large discrepancies between the arts and the sciences. Some scientists have tended to arrogate measurable advances in knowledge to themselves, thinking that scientific method is the one and only reputable way of extrapolation. Scientists seek measurable outcomes but artists seem to be otherwise motivated. The doctor in question seeks to reconcile what many would see as irreconcilable.
Romero is one scientist who has refused to wall himself in behind scientific method. Instead he has accepted the fact that the creation of art has been an aspect of human behavior since the earliest times and has searched for an explanation of why and how art has been a driving passion since so persistently. The motivation behind science is fairly obvious. Scientists seek concrete outcomes and set up means to measure what they observe and achieve. The manufacture and deployment of an atomic bomb has an explicit manifestation. An artistic interpretation of the bomb is less easy to explain.
The word 'consilience' was apparently first used in the nineteenth century but it has never threatened to become a buzz word, perhaps because it denotes a difficult concept. The idea that the same conclusion can be arrived at by different means tends not to be popular among academic disciplines where discrete ways of working are jealously guarded. For example, sports people and dancers may come to the same conclusions about human movement but keep their disciplines distinct.
A reason for the rare use of this word might be that academia is not particularly fond of letting down the curtains around various disciplines. People who have become world experts in arcane fields may have got there by following the strict rules of their discipline. They may not be enthusiastic about consilience, preferring the comfort zones of established disciplines.
It may be honesty, or the blinding light of free speech generated by the Internet that has pushed the concept of consilience forward to the front of the academic stage. It cannot be ignored now that open information reveals how different disciplines arrive at the same conclusions though they proceed from entirely different premises.
One of the theories that plays a part in Romero's consilient approach is the theory of attachment first put forward by John Bowlby, a development psychologist. He postulated that an infant is in need of a significant relationship in order to pass through a significant phase in intellectual development. This might seem like common sense to many people but in academia the truth is rarely simple or briefly articulated.
In his quest to explain how the passion for art is an imperative of human survival Phillip Romero employs a a consilient approach. He draws on various disciplines including psychiatric medicine, biology and art history to develop a theory that the artistic instinct is an essential attribute in human survival.
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