This episode of Wonderland explores emergence, epistemology, and the philosophy of science. It starts with a retelling of Douglas Hofstadter's "Ant Fugue", and introduces some of the implications of complex systems. Then Roy Bhaskar's philosophy of critical realism is described as a means of reconciling objective truth with epistemological relativism. Finally, these methods of analysis to the realm of social science, explaining some of the issues that plague social science research.

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