The (living) organism model/root metaphor also is extremely "successful", but many people are not aware of the resp. body of work, see esp. this beauty of a book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/world-hypotheses/paper
Interesting! Found this summary helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Hypotheses Regarding syntheses or expansions, has the mechanical/reductionist become more mathematical, but the organic/holistic via systems biology etc come closer to that too? Presumably the contextual approach adds sceptical context?
Yes, it can be, as contextualism regards knowledge itself as part of a wider situated context of knowing (and thus as contextual itself); I have written about this in relation to key questions in the archaeology of human origins: https://hdl.handle.net/1887/69812
I wanted to come back to this where I left off but... I've let it slip. I blame Trump (fairly safe bet) for distracting me! Maybe I'll gather my thoughts another time... 🫤
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