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What is holism in environmental philosophy?

Holism is usually contrasted with the reductionism usually associated with the rise of Western science. It is indeed often motivated by what many perceive to be the insufficiencies of an atomistic or reductionist approach to metaphysical and ethical propositions, in that it doesn’t correspond with how we experience reality or the needs that the current environmental crisis sets for us. Freya…
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Nagel's (almost) successful project

The project that Thomas Nagel sets out in Mind and Cosmos, is an ambitious one. He attacks a dominant view of nature in our time, namely the materialist mechanistic one, as purportedly envisaged by the neo-darwinists. He summarizes his thoughts in the end as “I would be…
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Faith and science together for wisdom

Recently the first podcast-episode in English was published. It stars Norwegian particle physicist Anders Kvellestad and Tom McLeish, a British professor of theoretical physics and a writer of a number of great books on the topics of faith, science and wisdom. These are…
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