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Two books in particular have me thinking in this direction... Drift into Failure, by Sidney Dekker, which is about understanding failure in highly complex syste
by beat 10y ago
Two books in particular have me thinking in this direction... Drift into Failure, by Sidney Dekker, which is about understanding failure in highly complex systems (aircraft, nuclear reactors, etc), and The World Beyond Your Head, by Matthew B. Crawford, which is really a philosophy book, but has substantial criticism of Enlightenment thinking (which includes reductionism, from Descartes/Newton, the basis of the scientific method).
Note that neither of these authors argue that the scientific method is wrong (as some new-agey types do), but rather that it is incomplete, and a poor tool for understanding the real world in many situations.