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title	:	The Nature and Origins of Scientism .. Aquinas Lecture ; 1944
author	:	Wellmuth, John James.
publisher	:	Marquette University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0874621089
print isbn13	:	9780874621082
ebook isbn13	:	9780585306261
language	:	English
subject	Science--Philosophy.
publication date	:	1944
lcc	:	Q175.W512 1944eb
ddc	:	501
subject	:	Science--Philosophy.

Page i The Nature and Origins of Scientism

Page ii Published Aquinas Lectures St. Thomas and the Life of Learning (1937) by the Rev. John F. McCormick, S.J., former professor of philosophy at Loyola University. St. Thomas and the Gentiles (1938) by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D., associate professor of the philosophy of Law, University of Chicago. St. Thomas and the Greeks (1939) by Anton C. Pegis, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy, Fordham University. The Nature and Functions of Authority (1940) by Yves Simon, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy, University of Notre Dame. St. Thomas and Analogy (1941) by the Rev. Gerald B. Phelan, Ph.D., president of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto. St. Thomas and the Problem of Evil (1942) by Jacques Maritain, Ph.D., professor of philosophy, Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto. Humanism and Theology (1943) by Werner Jaeger, Ph.D., Litt.D., "university" professor, Harvard University. The Nature and Origins of Scientism (1944) by the Rev. John Wellmuth, S.J., chairman of the Department of Philosophy, Loyola University.

Page iii The Aquinas Lecture, 1944 The Nature and Origins of Scientism Under the Auspices of the Aristotelian Society of Marquette University By John Wellmuth, S.J. Chairman of the Department of Philosophy Loyola University MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS MILWAUKEE 1944

Page iv COPYRIGHT, 1944 BY THE ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY OF MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRINTED AT THE MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN

Page v MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS MILWAUKEE

Page vi Nihil Obstat Gerard Smith, S.J., censor deputatus Milwaukiae, Die 23 Augustus, 1944 Imprimatur Milwaukiae, Die 23 Augustus, 1944 + Moyses E. Kiley Archiepiscopus Milwaukiensis Imprimi Potest Die 5 mensis Julii anni 1944 Leo D. Sullivan, S.J. Praepositus Provincialis Provinciae Chicagiensis

Page vii The Aquinas Lectures The Aristotelian Society of Marquette University each year invites a scholar to speak on the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. These lectures have come to be called the Aquinas Lectures and are customarily delivered on the Sunday nearest March seven, the feast day of the Society's patron saint. This year the Aristotelian Society has the pleasure of recording the lecture of the Rev. John Wellmuth, chairman of the department of philosophy at Loyola University. Fr. Wellmuth's studies include A.B., A.M. St. Louis University; Ph.D. University of Michigan; Graduate studies, Oxford University and Theological studies, Weston College. He is a member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, American Philosophical Association, Association for Symbolic Logic, and Michigan Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters. Fr. Wellmuth is co-founder and editor of the Modern Schoolman and has contributed to

Page viii numerous philosophical publications such as The New Scholasticism, Thought, America and the Loyola Education Digest. To this list the Aristotelian Society has the honor of adding The Nature and Origins of Scientism.

Page 1 The Nature and Origins of Scientism* The title of this lecture manifestly raises two questions. First, what is scientism? Secondly, when and how did it begin? In saying what is meant by the word "scientism" we shall be giving a direct answer to the first question; but in order to justify a discussion of this topic we must further show that there is such a thing and that it is worth considering. The question of the origins of scientism, like most questions about origins, is not fully answerable in a single lecture. What we shall try to do, by way of partial answer, is to outline a few of the causes of scientism, in order that its nature may be better understood and its implications more fully appreciated. The word "scientism," as used in this lecture, is to be understood as meaning the belief that science, in the modern sense of that term, and the scientific method as described by modern scientists, afford the only reliable natural means of acquiring such knowledge as may

Page 2 be available about whatever is real. This belief includes several characteristic features. In the first place, the fields of the various sciences, including such borderline or overlapping sciences as mathematical physics, biochemistry, physiochemistry and mathematical logic, are taken to be coextensive, at least in principle, with the entire field of available knowledge. Each of these sciences investigates and describes a particular kind of reality or inquires into some phase of reality from a particular point of view, and the sum total of their correlated findings represents all that we know at a given time. This knowledge is not what used to be meant by ''scientific knowledge,'' the "scientia" of the ancients. For the conclusions of science are no longer regarded as conclusive. More extended researches are likely to lead to further discoveries which will not only modify currently accepted conclusions but may even suggest new hypotheses to replace those now in use; so that eventually the picture of the universe

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