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Eliminativism and Evolutionary DebunkingErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 8 496-522. 2021.Eliminativists sometimes invoke evolutionary debunking arguments against ordinary object beliefs, either to help them establish object skepticism or to soften the appeal of commonsense ontology. I argue that object debunkers face a self-defeat problem: their conclusion undermines the scientific support for one of their premises, because evolutionary biology depends on our object beliefs. Using work on reductionism and multiple realizability from the philosophy of science, I argue that it will no…Read more
University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD, 2022
APA Western Division
Arlington, VA, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
General Philosophy of Science |