Introduction

In this introductory chapter, against the backdrop of the contemporary crisis in the formal-&-natural sciences, and the three basic problems that jointly constitute that crisis, I briefly describe the purpose of this book, which is to solve these three basic problems by presenting and defending what I call the neo-organicist turn, including manifest realism and the three sub-parts of organicism: liberal naturalism, mind-life continuity, and explanatory inversion, i.e., the dependency of the mechanical on the organic. Or more briefly and simply put, the purpose of this book is to present and defend science for humans. Science for humans is an original and paradigm-shifting conception of formal science, natural science, and the natural universe alike.