Talk:Physicism

claims require support

All the radical claims in this paper require previous study, either by me or by other scholars, before I can expect them to be accepted at all by still more scholars. 20:58, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

physicism is to naturalism as environmentalist is to ecologist.

Naturalism is the sense that the world is run by natural processes, as opposed to supernatural meddling. This has been explored in discussions of Newton's professed supernaturalism, but not made explicit in modern pedagogy. Perhaps we should flesh this out to determine how we're presenting physics in the naturalist framework or not. 14:57, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Coproduction of knowledge and social order

Tim Forsyth cites Sheila Jasanoff, 1990 and 1996 p393, as introducing the term coproduction as "the simultaneous production of knowledge and social order." Social organization legitimizes only some paths of study in science. What is the social order coproduced with physics knowledge? Can we make physicism explicit and steer the path of physics study?