Huw Price (Editor), Richard Corry (Editor)
4.0 out of 5 stars My head hurts — connects science to philosophy as math, February 8, 2014
I was not expecting the math formulas and the dense language. It never occurred to me that philosphy would get so convuluted that it now has its own language and arcane formulas that require a lifetime of study to be conversant. Not fun at all.
Among the high points as I struggled with the various authors, most of them much too far from my own interest in humanities and the logic of human affairs:
01 Bottom line is about AGENCY — who gets to drive and in what direction. Science is the car and its elements and their capabilities. Causality is everything else.
02 There are two major camps: causal fundamentalists and causal republicanists. The first is adamant that causality is scientific and can be factored, the second that both science and philospphy have a convergent role in understanding causality.
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