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92Tim Maudlin, Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press , xiv+183 pp., $29.95 (review)Philosophy of Science 81 (2): 288-292. 2014.
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86Paul Valéry1 Valéry’s “Variation sur Descartes” excellently evokes the vanishing act that has haunted philosophy ever since Darwin overturned the Cartesian tradition. If my body is composed of nothing but a team of a few trillion robotic cells, mindlessly interacting to produce all the large-scale patterns that tradition would attribute to the nonmechanical workings of my mind, there seems to be nothing left over to be me. Lurking in Darwin’s shadow there is a bugbear: the incredible Disappearin…Read more
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25Theory Reduction and Theory ChangeRoutledge. 2000.First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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| Philosophy of Mathematics |
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