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Analysis without Synthesis makes the world fall apart. Interrelations between science, philosophy and Religion
Piet Keizer
ISBN 978-3-8325-6132-1
215 pages, year of publication: 2026
price: 39.00 €
Analysis without Synthesis makes the world fall apart. Interrelations between science, philosophy and Religion
Modern knowledge has increasingly reduced to correlations between empirical variables. All knowledge, however, is intuition-based, including logic, mathematics, and statistical theory. Even empirical indicators are constructed intuitively!
This book discusses the ins and outs of scientific philosophy, which is structured in four layers: paradigm, analysis, theory, and hypothesis (PATH). Economic, sociological and psychological research programmes are explained in terms of the PATH- structure. Unfortunately, modern research is mostly focussed on the empirical testing of the H-layer. When ignoring the PAT-part, empirical relations cannot be understood.
Even religion is intuition-based. Orthodox religion is based on a fixed paradigm, which is a dogma. Heterodox religion works with paradigms, which evolve over time. From a revengeful God, who has its favourite persons to a God who loves all his creatures, for instance. Changes in the image of God has significant effects on the empirical world.
The increasing role of AI is a threat to our civilisation: It’s all about the H-layer, the meaning-producing PAT is ignored.
Piet Keizer studied economics and philosophy at the University of
Groningen and was awarded a PhD in economics in 1982. He subsequently
served as an associate professor of Institutional Economics at
Maastricht University and of Multidisciplinary Methodology at Utrecht
University. His research focuses on union economics, labour relations,
welfare state, problem based learning and social economics.
