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Anthony Chemero on 4E cognitive science, ecological psychology, dynamical systems theory

Thing in itself

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The Limit in Mechanistic Philosophy of Science

The main point of neo mechanistic philosophy of science is to eliminate emergent phenomenon. And so, when I talk about far from equilibrium systems and how there's a kind of macro thing that is not nothing but the micro thing, it doesn't align with the new mechanist thinking. There are differences among neo mechanists. Bob Richardson isn't willing to even consider the reality of macro systems as non reducible entities.

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