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Amanda Gefter Quotes

born 1980 United States

Amanda Gefter (born 16 August 1980) is an American journalist and science writer, specializing in fundamental physics, cosmology, and cognitive science. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Nautilus, Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American, Sky & Telescope, Astronomy, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Structural realism—in its metaphysical version, championed by the philosopher of science James Ladyman—is the deepest explanation I know, because it serves as a kind of meta-explanation, one that explains the nature of reality and the nature of scientific explanations.

Structural Realism (2012)

Putnam's insight was that quantum theory requires us to conceive of a world in which cognition is an active, participatory process — one that’s not mediated by internal representations. And so that’s what Putnam set out to do. He wanted to create a model of the brain and a philosophy of mind that replaced the old word “observer” with the new word “participator”.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Amanda Gefter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.