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Let us keep our ontology and epistemology separate!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

William R. Uttal
William R. Uttal
Affiliation:
Arizona State University, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Tempe 85287-5906 [email protected]
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Abstract

Gold & Stoljar are right in their thesis but incomplete in not pointing out that there are many other arguments from cognate sciences suggesting that a radical eliminativist neuroreductionism is unlikely to be achieved. The radical neuron doctrine they criticize is only a hoped for dogma that cannot be verified, whereas a constrained monistic materialism (with only partial reductionism) is subject to immediate test by applying such criteria as combinatorial complexity and thermodynamic irreversibility.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 852 - 853
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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