Engels vs. Davidson
Sayers, Sean. “Engels and Materialism,” in Engels Today: A Centenary Appreciation, edited by Christopher J. Arthur (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), pp. 153-172.
A criticism of physicalism and dualism and a comparison of the non-reductive materialism of Friedrich Engels and Donald Davidson’s anomalous monism, which Sayers deems unable to adequately account for the […]
Emergence: Theology or Materialism?
The emergence of emergence as a hot topic ought to send up a red flag. Every new scientific advance, every new organizing concept, offers a fresh opportunity to the forces of ideological obfuscation.
There is a history here, as well as a current terrain. While scientific work need not always be mindful of that part of […]
