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Podcast: New Books in German Studies
Episode: Todd H. Weir, āMonism: Science, Philosophy, Religion, and the History of a Worldviewā (Palgrave, 2012)
Description: I always learn something when I interview authors, but in this chat with Todd H. Weir I learned something startling: Iām a monist. What is more, you may be a monist too and not even know it. Do you believe that there is really only one kind of stuff and that everything we observeāand our powers of observation themselvesāare made of that stuff? If so, youāre a monist.
But what kind? As Todd explains, the history of monism is not monistic: since its birth in the nineteenth century, there have been multiple monisms (which, y...