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A series of broadcasts based on informal discussions recorded at a meeting of philosophers and scientists at Dunford House, in Sussex
3: Scientist and Metaphysician
Introduced by Richard Gregory and Renford Bambrough Other speakers:
Seymour Papert , John Wisdom James Thomson , Giles Brindley Richard Gregory argues that the mechanism of the brain poses an engineering problem.
What sort of presuppositions underlie brain research? What makes a scientific ' 'explanation' acceptable? What service can the metaphysician offer the scientist?
The fourth in the series

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Introduced By:
Richard Gregory
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Seymour Papert
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John Wisdom
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James Thomson
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Giles Brindley
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Richard Gregory

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