It can be seen that reductionism isn't only a scientific and philosophical obsession - it's actually a  human obsession. Pe...

This piece is a response to a discussion I had on the Facebook page Analytic Philosophy . At first I simply responded to a post b...

Scientism can be seen as a position (or stance) on the huge importance of science to philosophy and - often more broadly - to just abo...

When one first comes across a description of an “observation sentence”, it would seem, prima facie , that such a thing doesn't exi...

According to neuroscientist and Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman, consciousness “can only be understood from a biological standpoint, not thro...