{"id":184014,"date":"2024-02-29T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T23:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/thing-in-itself"},"modified":"2024-02-29T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T23:28:10","slug":"thing-in-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/thing-in-itself","title":{"rendered":"Thing in itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9agVl8OYlJc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alex Rosenberg is professor of Philosophy at Duke University and has made several important contributions to the philosophy of science, biology, and social science.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 intro.<br \/> 2:53 scientism.<br \/> 5:09 naturalism and the manifest image.<br \/> 7:25 pragmatism.<br \/> 10:40 intentionality.<br \/> 12:38 objections to eliminativism and truth.<br \/> 14:35 consciousness.<br \/> 16:50 biological functions, purposes, and the selected effects theory.<br \/> 22:28 reductionism.<br \/> 28:05 causality.<br \/> 31:02 multiple realizability.<br \/> 35:13 math.<br \/> 39:45 morality.<br \/> 44:51 humanism, art, and history.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Rosenberg\u2019s website: <a href=\"https:\/\/alexrosenbergbooks.com\/\">https:\/\/alexrosenbergbooks.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alex Rosenberg Books:<br \/> Reduction and Mechanism (2020)<br \/> How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories (2018)<br \/> The Atheist\u2019s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life Without Illusions (2011)<br \/> Darwinian Reductionism (2006)<br \/> Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction (2000) <\/p>\n<p>Social.<br \/> Twitter: \/ thinginitself__<br \/> Instagram: \/ thinginitself.pod.<br \/> Facebook: \/ 100088163125850<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Rosenberg is professor of Philosophy at Duke University and has made several important contributions to the philosophy of science, biology, and social science. 0:00 intro. 2:53 scientism. 5:09 naturalism and the manifest image. 7:25 pragmatism. 10:40 intentionality. 12:38 objections to eliminativism and truth. 14:35 consciousness. 16:50 biological functions, purposes, and the selected effects theory. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2229,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}