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Article: Complex realities, adequate reductions: a reply to Joseph Carroll.(Responses)
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Let us suppose, because we have good reason to, that everything that exists and happens on this earth has natural causes. If true, this supposition rules out ontological discontinuities in the process of hominization and in the evolution of human culture. Joseph Carroll wants us to believe that this conclusion is a privileged insight--indeed, a distinguishing mark--of the neo-naturalist turn he envisions for the humanities. It is not. Excluding supernatural explanations from rational inquiries is the foundational operation of all post-theological scholarship and science. Hence, naturalist and culturalist methodologies in the humanities rarely disagree about human culture's ...
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Article: OBIT - VANOVER, JOSEPH CARROLL, (NICK)
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...VANOVER, Joseph Carroll, (Nick), of Blacksburg, passed away Wednesday, October 30, 2002, after a short battle with cancer. Visitation will be ...
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