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  1. starting article on pluralism in philosophy and the foundations of mathematics

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  2. also added a section on pluralism in physics

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    • CommentAuthorGuest
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2022

    The opposite of pluralism is not reductionism, it is monism. The opposite of reductionism is holism.

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    • Neil Barton (2017). Independence and Ignorance: How agnotology informs set-theoretic pluralism. (philsci-archive:14636

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    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2022

    I find #3 has a good point, which, if not incorporated, deserves to be reacted to.

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    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2022

    Re #3, yes, pluralism and reductionism aren’t opposites. E.g., people will speak of pluralist and monist accounts of causality. People speak of set-theoretic monism/pluralism.

    Reductionism is more likely to be contrasted with emergentism, and holism with individualism.

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    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2022
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    Reductionism is more likely to be contrasted with emergentism, and holism with individualism.

    I am not sure about this:

    Emergence applies within reductionism, not in contrast to it: It is in a reductionist theory (like the quark model) that we have to explain how complex bound states (like hadrons) are emergent from non-complex constitutents (quarks). In non-reductionist theories (like chiral perturbation theory or holographic QCD) these complex structures are just there, not emergent from something else.

    And the antonym of “individualism” surely is something like “collectivism”, no? That’s a pair rather remote from the metaphysical realm of reductionism/holism, to my mind.

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    • Michèle Friend, Pluralism in Mathematics: A New Position in Philosophy of Mathematics, Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Science, Springer, 2014. [ISBN 978-94-007-7058-4, pdf]

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