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Can science explain everything?

Denis R Alexander, June 1999

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Scientific naturalism is the view that only scientific knowledge is reliable and that science can, in principle, explain everything. This paper surveys the inherent weaknesses in this philosophy, illustrated by the naturalistic attempt to extract ethics from biology...

Category: Cambridge Papers

Keywords: Science & Technology

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