Peter Henri Bortoft ( – ) foi um físico britânico, mais conhecido por sua obra The Wholeness of Nature.Book review on Wholeness of Nature by David Seamon, originally appeared in Parabola, 22, 3 (Fall 1997): 90-91 Seu livro Taking Appearance Seriously: The Dynamic Way of Seeing in Goethe and European Thought foi publicado em 2012.
Formação e carreira Bortoft completou seus estudos na Universidade de Hull,Henri Bortoft com pesquisas de pós-graduação sobre os fundamentos da mecânica quântica no Birkbeck College, onde o físico teórico David Bohm o introduziu no problema do holismo (wholeness) em teoria quântica. Trabalhou em seguida com John G. Bennett sobre a sistemática de Bennett. O resultado deste trabalho foi publicado em Systematics: The Journal of the Institute for the Comparative Study of History, Philosophy and the Sciences.
Bortoft lecionou física no Schumacher College. Apresentou diversas palestras e seminários no Reino Unido e Estados Unidos sobre o trabalho científico de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe e sobre o desenvolvimento da ciência moderna.
Obras Henri Bortoft Taking Appearance Seriously: The Dynamic Way of Seeing in Goethe and European Thought, Floris Books, 2012, . The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's way toward a science of conscious participation in nature, Lindisfarne Press, 1996, . Goethe's Scientific Consciousness, Octagon press, 1986, . Note that Goethe's Scientific Consciousness is reused as part II of the book The Wholeness of Nature "Counterfeit and Authentic Wholes", In D. Seamon and R. Mugerauer, eds.: Dwelling, Place and Environment: Toward a Phenomenology of Person and World, pp. 281–302, Columbia University Press, 1985. The Whole: Counterfeit and Authentic, Systematics, 9 (2) (September, 1971), pp. 43–73. Review Discussion: A Systematic Critique of the Management of Science, Systematics, 7 (4) (March, 1971), pp. 347–351. The Ambiguity of ‘One’ and ‘Two’ in Young’s Experiment, Systematics, 8 (3) (December, 1970), available online at http://www.toutley.demon.co.uk/HB.htm. Language, Will, and the Fact, Systematics, 6 (3) (December, 1968). “The Resolution by a Rigorous Descriptive Method of Some Dilemmas in Physical Science – Part 1”, Systematics, 4 (2) (September, 1966). This article reflects Bortoft’s development of the idea of a rigorous descriptive method in the earlier article below and restates the Descriptive Model more concisely and elegantly, with an emphasis on the collective, sociological will of the scientific community. com John G. Bennett e K. W. Pledge: Towards an Objectively Complete Language: An essay in objective description as applied to scientific procedure, Systematics, 3 (3) (December, 1965).
Ligações externas Henri Borthoft at Schumacher College Henri Bortoft: The transformation of consciousness Goethian science, by H. Bortoft Dialogue on leadership, interview with Henri Bortoft by Claus Otto Scharmer, 1999 Review of Henri Bortoft's Taking Appearance Seriously
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