: Investigates metabolism, sentience, and the inherent "powers" that distinguish living organisms.
Wallace shifts to the methodology of discovery, defining science as a form of "probable reasoning" that can eventually arrive at certitude: The Modeling of Nature: Philosophy of Science a...
William A. Wallace’s (1996) is a foundational text that synthesizes Aristotelian-Thomistic natural philosophy with contemporary scientific practice . Wallace argues that modern science is not just a social construct or a set of mathematical abstractions but a realist pursuit capable of reaching objective truth through modeling. Core Content and Structure : Investigates metabolism
: Discusses the human soul, volition, and the perfection of human action as a culmination of natural philosophy. Part II: Philosophy of Science categorized by their complexity:
This section explores the "internal dimensions" of natural entities, categorized by their complexity: