Brian Epstein, “The Social World, Reexamined” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Economics
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Is the Social World Really Real?
i think that i want to be very cautious about sure, welleand they're too speculative? Ye, there there. There's a branch of philosophy and science that's very keen to do what's called naturalizing the socialThat is, to try to take social properties, or mental properties, or things like that, and then explain them in terms of basic physics, or somehow naturalistic terms. They thinkat that's really the project of of understanding the social world. Because these things may not be human centric, it's hard for me to understand how they might be completely independent from the physical world. You'd thinkthat there'd be some kind of intereyou seew
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