Post by kevinvelasquez on May 17, 2015 0:47:29 GMT
Week 3 Question 2: What is eliminative materialism? Provide three examples of it.
A process Eliminative Materialism is “if a phenomenon can explained fully and comprehensively by mathematics, then one turns to physics. If that too is incomplete, then onto Chemistry. Then onto biology, then to psychology, then to sociology then the old joke would if any of these disciplines could not explain it then it is perfectly fine to say “then God did it?”” (Eliminative Materialism: God did it? Part 1, Youtube). One example of this is when as humans evolved, learned, and understand more about themselves, we humans “eliminated Gods and spirits and favorited a more precise and accurate philological explanations” (Eliminative Materialism: The Death of Thor, Youtube). Another example of Eliminative Materialism would be humans replacing the idea of “Thor the Thunder God, instead we started talking about Electromagnetic Currents” (Eliminative Materialism: The Death of Thor, Youtube). One last example of Eliminative Materialism is “instead of spirits being the reason for diseases, we talked about bacteria and viruses” (Eliminative Materialism: The Death of Thor, Youtube).
A process Eliminative Materialism is “if a phenomenon can explained fully and comprehensively by mathematics, then one turns to physics. If that too is incomplete, then onto Chemistry. Then onto biology, then to psychology, then to sociology then the old joke would if any of these disciplines could not explain it then it is perfectly fine to say “then God did it?”” (Eliminative Materialism: God did it? Part 1, Youtube). One example of this is when as humans evolved, learned, and understand more about themselves, we humans “eliminated Gods and spirits and favorited a more precise and accurate philological explanations” (Eliminative Materialism: The Death of Thor, Youtube). Another example of Eliminative Materialism would be humans replacing the idea of “Thor the Thunder God, instead we started talking about Electromagnetic Currents” (Eliminative Materialism: The Death of Thor, Youtube). One last example of Eliminative Materialism is “instead of spirits being the reason for diseases, we talked about bacteria and viruses” (Eliminative Materialism: The Death of Thor, Youtube).