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This was a book about the demons of science and how they are used as argument patterns in philosophical and scientific reasoning about the world. The demons, all powerful as they appear to be, advance particular views about the make-up of the surrounding cosmos: that it is deterministic, probabilistic or even cyclic in nature.
We may think of reality as a set of concentric spheres, progressively revealed as we detach gradually from the contingencies of the self. Th. Nagel, The View from Nowhere.
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Weinert, F. (2016). Conclusion. In: The Demons of Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31708-3_28
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