Oh no! Am I a reductionist??

Fields of study arranged by purity, according to the excellent xkcd.com.

Sometimes I think my career suffers from a kind of split personality disorder. For instance, as a scientist I tend to point out to my colleagues in philosophy that to say “that’s an empirical question” is a good thing, not a conversation stopper. Then again, I also find myself reminding my science colleagues that no matter how hard they try to ignore it, everything they do has philosophical underpinnings, including in terms ...