Post by Jasmin Galvan on May 14, 2015 19:52:04 GMT
What is eliminative materialism? Provide three examples of it.
Eliminative materialism is the process of using science to explain things. In the video we watched “Eliminative Materialism, part one” the speaker explains it very simply by saying if something cannot be explained by math then we go to physics and through every branch of science, and if at the end if it cannot be explained then god did it. Also eliminative materialism eliminated gods with science as to how to explain things. Three examples of this concept are that we no longer believe spirits cause disease now we understand that bacteria and viruses do. The second example is light which we no understand is caused by electric magnetic currents and not Thor the thunder god. Finally our understanding of the body and the central nervous system put to rest the idea of ghosts in our body.
Eliminative materialism is the process of using science to explain things. In the video we watched “Eliminative Materialism, part one” the speaker explains it very simply by saying if something cannot be explained by math then we go to physics and through every branch of science, and if at the end if it cannot be explained then god did it. Also eliminative materialism eliminated gods with science as to how to explain things. Three examples of this concept are that we no longer believe spirits cause disease now we understand that bacteria and viruses do. The second example is light which we no understand is caused by electric magnetic currents and not Thor the thunder god. Finally our understanding of the body and the central nervous system put to rest the idea of ghosts in our body.
