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The Unreducability of Reductionism

Monday, November 24, 2008

This started as an off-the cuff comment over at the blog for Philosophy Talk, a radio show run by two Stanford philosophers, John Perry and Ken Taylor. But I decided I liked this idea too much to leave it as an unpolished comment.
Reductionism, if you don’t know, is the thesis that claims from one “science” [...]

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That Rabbit Won’t Go Back in the Hat

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Occasionally I’m just going to post about random ideas that are buzzing around in the back of my head. I’ve got three of them going right now: One related to technology, one related to economics, and one–the one I’m going to post here–related to my old field, philosophy, in particular, metaphysics and the philosophy of [...]

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