![]() ![]() The existence of the self, he says, is "an illusion." Rosenberg also coauthored an influential book on David Hume with Tom Beauchamp, Hume and the Problem of Causation, arguing that Hume was not a skeptic about induction but an opponent of rationalist theories of inductive inference.Īlex Rosenberg asserts the radical opinion that there is no enduring self on atheism. Rosenberg is among the few biologists and fewer philosophers of science who reject the consensus view that combines physicalism with antireductionism (see his 2010 on-line debate with John Dupré at Philosophy TV). Rosenberg introduced the concept of supervenience to the treatment of intertheoretical relations in biology, soon after Donald Davidson began to exploit Richard Hare's notion in the philosophy of psychology. He became especially interested in the relationship between molecular biology and other parts of biology. He later shifted to work on issues in the philosophy of science that are raised by biology. Over the period of the next decade he became increasingly skeptical about neoclassical economics as an empirical theory. His doctoral dissertation, published as Microeconomic Laws in 1976, was the first treatment of the nature of economics by a contemporary philosopher of science. Rosenberg's early work focused on the philosophy of social science and especially the philosophy of economics. ![]() Rosenberg is an atheist, and a metaphysical naturalist. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1981, an American Council of Learned Societies fellow in 1983, won the Lakatos Award in 1993 and was the National Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Lecturer in 2006. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Santa Cruz, Oxford University, the Australian National University and Bristol University. He has taught philosophy at Dalhousie University, Syracuse University, University of California, Riverside, University of Georgia and, since 2000, at Duke University. from the Johns Hopkins University in 1971. Rosenberg graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1963 (along with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Richard Axel) and from the City College of New York in 1967. 2.3 Critical discussions of Rosenberg’s work.2.2 How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of our Addiction to Stories. ![]()
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