Just want to let you know about our book coming out on April 25th, just in time for our 15th anniversary.

It includes chapters for 18 of our episodes with such guests as Lucy Lawless and Michael Sandel, Peter Singer, and Arthur Danto.

The book also includes essays by me, Mark, and our editor.

For more information, go to partially examined life.

com slash book.

You're listening to the partially examined life a podcast by some guys who at one

point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 339 is something like what metaphysics should underlie modern science.

We read chapters one through four of Brian Ellis's 2002 book, The Philosophy of Nature, a guide to

the new essentialism. For more information about the book and

the podcast please see partially examined life.com. This is Mark Linsenmeyer a pacifist

but not a pacifist in Madison, Wisconsin. This is Seth Paskin recording from Austin, Texas,

in this possible world,

or the actual world, decide at the end of the show.

This is Wesall One, a gene-identical microspecies and a natural-kind cluster in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

And this is Christopher Heath.

I am performing a cost-benefit analysis on my ontological commitments in North Hollywood, California.

Welcome back, Chris.

Thanks. Good back, Chris. Thanks.

Good to be back.

We sometimes tag Chris for our philosophy of science episodes, especially when one of us is going to be gone.

Dylan is an unplanned absence right now. He actually supposed to be here we are going to do

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