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Cooperative Research in the Science of Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

George Y. Rusk*
Affiliation:
Baltimore, Maryland

Extract

Science is based upon the supposition that planning is essential to and effective in the discovery of truth,—planning within and between the minds of individuals. If planning is so, then the cooperative planning of scientific research in the field of the science of religion would contribute to the discovery of truth. The symposia which the Philosophy of Science Association has authorized be published in its journal and the papers on E. S. P. and upon psychoanalytical theory which it secured for its recent national meeting reveal, it seems to the present writer, that the Association recognizes the value of cooperative planning in the discovery of truth, specifically in the field of the science of religion.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1951, The Williams & Wilkins Company

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References

1 From Rusk, G. Y., “On Meeting the Crisis in Culture,” Periodical Review of the Society for Religious Culture, May, 1948, pp. 10–11, with verbal condensations and alterations.

2 For general gestalt measurement consult: Rusk, G. Y. “General Mensurational Gestaltism,” Philosophy of Science, July, 1949, pp. 250–259; and Bridgman, P. W., “Dimensional Analysis”, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7,387Ac; and for specific techniques Churchman, C. W., Theory of Experimental Inference, Macmillan, 1948.