John Dupré and Alex Rosenberg

John Dupré (left) and Alex Rosenberg (right) on physicalist anti-reductionism.

According to physicalism, there is no non-physical stuff. According to reductionism, all facts can be captured by some purely physical description of the world. Nowadays, physicalist anti-reductionism is orthodox among philosophers. In this debate, Dupré defends that orthodoxy, while Rosenberg defends a considerably less popular view: physicalist reductionism.

Related works

by Dupré:

“Is Biology Reducible to the Laws of Physics?” (2007)

The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science (1995)

by Rosenberg:

Darwinian Reductionism (2006)

“Defending Information-Free Genocentrism” (2005)

More video:

Alex Rosenberg and David Levine (BhTV)

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