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“Ours is thus a realism of lush and leafy spaces rather than deserts, with science regularly revealing new thickets of canopy. Anyone is welcome to go on sharing Quine’s aesthetic appreciation of deserts, but we think the facts now suggest that we must reconcile ourselves to life in the rainforest.”
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“Attaching epistemic significance to metaphysical intuitions is anti-naturalist for two reasons. First, it requires ignoring the fact that science, especially physics, has shown us that the universe is very strange to our inherited conception of what it is like. Second, it requires ignoring central implications of evolutionary theory, and of the cognitive and behavioural sciences, concerning the nature of our minds.”
― Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized
― Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized
“The resulting view is “structuralist” or “holistic” in two respects. First, one can only state something fundamental by characterizing the world as a whole. And second, the derivative individualistic facts then flow from that fundamental fact only as a group, not one-by-one. So there is no making sense of either the fundamental or the derivative without making sense of everything at once. As a result, this is what might be called a “many-from-one” metaphysics, on which many elements (the individualistic facts) flow together from one source (the World Fact). I am not aware of other many-from-one views in recent metaphysics, but Spinoza arguably endorsed one when he argued that the finite modes flow together, but not individually, from the essence of God.28 If I am right, we have good reason to revisit many-from-one views today.”
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Carlos’s 2024 Year in Books
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