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#318 - Physics & Philosophy

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Tim Modlin on the Nature of Scientific Reductionism

Timothy Stanley: Today, I'm speaking with Tim Modlin. He is a professor of philosophy at NYU and the founder and director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundation to Physics. His interests primarily focus on the foundations of physics, as well as metaphysics and logic. We talk about scientific reductionism, emergence, the nature of time,. The nature of possibility, natural law, David Lewis's possible worlds.

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