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How to Turn the World Upside Down- Without Making it Weird
The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy summarises the principle of locality as “the condition that any correlations between distant events be explicable in local terms”. “Outcome Determinism” is defined in the same article as a principle which entails that “outcomes of experiments are predetermined by the complete specification of state”- or in other words, that the…
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Emergence and Relativism
All things have some value inherent in them, particularly if we realise that value is situational, functional. There are contexts within which the valueless becomes valuable, and gems turn to ash. One man’s trash and all that. This clear-minded perspectivism can lead us to think that we must take all viewpoints as equally valuable, as…
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The Demands of the Success of Scientific Inquiry
The success of science, to some extent, needs to be viewed explicitly in those terms- as its success. The idea that this generates a justification for its truth is more difficult, primarily because the question of its validity is the question of our understanding of the basis of truth itself, before the validity of such…
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