Scott J. Pearson’s Book Review

The Age of Reason

By Scott J. Pearson | June 9, 2018 by Scott J. Pearson

by Thomas PaineOriginally published 1794 in the setting of the French Revolution. Thomas Paine, the author of the famed Common Sense in 1776, extends his critique of Western culture from government to religion in this treatise. In it, he appeals for Deism based upon Nature instead of a religion based upon revelation. Like his contention that originally humans were free without a monarchy, he contends that humans originally had no Word of God and thus relied…

Science

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

By Scott J. Pearson | June 7, 2018 by Scott J. Pearson

by Thomas S. KuhnThird EditionCopyright 1962, 1970, 1996. This is a book that I’ve wanted to read ever since college. I was reading it when I started medical school, but studies soon overtook me. It’s a history of science. Rather, it’s a philosophical theory on how science progresses through history. From Newton and chemistry to Darwin and quantum mechanics, it tells the story of how science moves forward. This progress is, as Kuhn tells it,…