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Is There a Richer Causal Language?
Scientists can be the victims of this strict demarcation between philosophy and science, he says. This isn't true of all scientists, i think, otvie, of course, with dawkins. He was sort of a third tier zoologist who wrote a book on lecular biology that advanced a theory already more or less an exploded theory at the time the book appeared. But there are other philosophers, especially in physics, who realize the insufficiency o of the rationalist, reductivist or eliminativist positions. They understand that ther need a richer causal language. And more and more, you see now people in biology, talking about helionomy and talking more