Philosophy of Science: Impossible or Possible?

Control Thru Numbers or The Art of Life, Which One?

By Stephen McCarthy, The McCarthy Project

Over the last couple months, the words “philosophy of science” have continued to pop up.  What does it mean?  For as long as I remember, the two subjects are stand-alone forms, right?  But then one of those revelation moments came and I realized that life is not about predictive, controlled programming, it is meant to be an art form with science added for additional information.

I would challenge you to start developing your thoughts individual viewpoints around the concept of philosophy of science.  It will lead you to places that few people have traveled and revelations of new ideas are available.  Here are the conversations and books I read over the last couple weeks that lead me to realize that life can bee seen differently.

Kurt Lewin, The Principles of Topological Psychology, the first part of the book is around the concepts of philosophy of science, Greek logic, and experiments that can be proven scientifically.

A conversation with Travis Zins, strength coach at St. Cloud State University and Shaun Myszka, performance coach at Explosive Edge, on the concept of periodization and the lack of time and control that even the big time coaches have with athletes.  The constraints lead back to the art of training, not science.

Lastly, Cal Dietz, strength coach at the University of Minnesota, just posted an essay on a new paradigm in coaching athletes.  Hard core, make you puke workouts, don’t make better athletes.  See the entire post here.

In the end, we must realize that how we view life and the philosophy that we act out with our life is just as important to what “research says.”