On 08 Sep 2013, at 11:14, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
with physicalism i mean a form of reductionism that is ideológical
instead of metodological, in the sense that despise anything beyond
the laws of physics. Physicalists despise chemistry and biology not
to mention other disciplines.
Indeed. And that can explain why it is hard for them to even imagine
that physics can itself be reduced to another science (like arithmetic/
computer science when assuming computationalism).
An scientist can use reductionism in a metodological way, for
example, we can use quantum nechanics to better understand some
chemical reactions. or we can use brain scanning or cognitive
sciences to help in the study of the mind. What is ideológical is to
deny or despise anything above your favorite discipline.
In this case, it is related to a (not always conscious) dogma, coming
from Aristotle metaphysics, and fitting with the natural animal
speculation/extrapolation of unicity and existence of itself and its
neighborhood. Assuming comp we get the many selves and the many
corresponding worlds/realities. The "I" hides other I's.
Bruno
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On 9/7/2013 12:40 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
That's right. I´m not joking if i say that the thing that
discredited philosophers definitively was relativity, quantum
mechanics and their realization: the atomic bomb. That is the event
that raised physicalism, a branch of logical positivism and
analytical philosophy, and discredited any other way of thinking.
If by "physicalism" you mean the meta- of physics, then it's not
positivism. Positivism hasn't been considered a good meta-physics
since Mach. Too many unobservable things: atoms, photons, quarks,
virtual particles,... turned out to make good empirical models.
Brent
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