I am not much for jargon, but were I to label my own view, the one that will guide our discussion across this book, I would call it “nested naturalism.” Nested naturalism, as will become clear in this and subsequent chapters, is committed to the value and the universal applicability of reductionism. It takes as a given that there is a fundamental unity in the workings of the world, and posits that such unity will be found by pursuing the reductionist program to whatever depth it leads. Everything that takes place in the world admits a description in terms of nature’s fundamental constituents
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