Synopsis:
- Eliminative materialism
- The mental does not exist
- Sensations are not brain processes, but the things that we think are sensations are indeed brain processes
- Anarchist theory of knowledge (1975)
- History of science proceeds by chance
- There is no universal methodology for science
- The boundary between science and nonscience is perpetually shifting
- Disunity of science: science is a hodgepodge of theories, not a unified system
- The world does not consist of one kind of thing but of countless kinds of things, things which cannot be `reduced' to one another
- There is actually no evidence that the world has a single, determinate nature
- Anarchist theory of knowledge (1975)
- The world as it is in itself in unknowable to humans
- Reason and Science have displaced the binding principles of previous world-views not as the result of having won an argument, but as the result of power-play (eg, Galileo made use of rhetoric and propaganda to support the heliocentric thesis, just like any politician to support an ideology)
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