01.24.11
Kant and extended ‘syntheses’
From Fisher’s Lament To Kant’s Challenge
The real ‘extended something or other’ came from the philosopher Kant who ‘extended’ Newtonian reductionism so it could discuss the issues of freedom and ethics. The failure of The Extended Synthesis book to really break out of the reductionist world view limited its ‘extension’ to near nullity.
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