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Radical Realism

Published 25 Jan 2024 in q-bio.NC | (2401.14049v1)

Abstract: The ontogeny of cognitive neuroscience has emerged within the hegemony of substance ontology. Persistent physicalist influences are described through three developmental hallmarks that yielded epistemic attractors - promoters and perpetuators of material-discursive practices oriented toward reification and self-vindication across the interdisciplinary spectrum which, as a whole, has been driven away from its pretensions to scientific realism. In virtue of a desire for a radical return thereto, we adopt a metaphysic stance akin to pragmatism, and briefly make the case that such concerns have sociopolitical implications extending far beyond the realm of mere philosophical interest.

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