Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality

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Holism, entrenchment, and the future of climate model pluralism (2010, background): “…unreliable components (. . .) Adaptive design is a layered organization of kludged adaptations acquired sequentially and assembled on the fly. . . .’’ (Wimsatt, 2007, 133) Kludges have been incorporated into the body of philosophy of science by scholars like Clark and Wimsatt who are inspired…”
Insects have the capacity for subjective experience (2016, background): “Rather, a search for mechanisms can be the means of clarifying our concepts (Wimsatt, 2007) and thereby moving past seemingly intractable difficulties.”