This divorce of the scientific subject's mind from the object being examined amounts to
an epistemological dualism.
The epistemological dualism implicit in scientific materialism inevitably leads to the feeling that nature is without purpose and that my own conscious life lacks any grounding in the universe.
Furthermore, materialism's
epistemological dualism leaves open the door for the «existential» alienation of the subject from its cosmic context.
For Brightman a sharp
epistemological dualism separates cause from effects.
Needless to say, the paradox between metaphysical monism and
epistemological dualism in much of modern science presents immense philosophical difficulties.
Epistemological dualism was unheard of; man could and did know reality by immediate contact.
In this regard, Hartshorne is probably more truly an empiricist than Brightman, and Brightman's professed
epistemological dualism was bound to expose its Cartesian heritage at some point.
Not exact matches
According to John Cobb, Whitehead overcomes the
epistemological and metaphysical
dualism of the subject and the object while preserving a distinction between them.