...Susi Ferrarello The risk of reductionism, in particular, becomes relevant when we look at cases in bioethics, medical ethics, and the medical humanities. What animated Edmund Husserl’s philosophical research was his struggle against reductionism in science. In general, reductionism points...

... is dismissible should be rejected. For even if familiar sceptical positions and scepticism about testimonial justification can be dismissed on such grounds, scepticism about testimonial knowledge cannot. testimony scepticism knowledge justification reductionism non-reductionism In spite of growing interest...

... reductionism and standardization in plant abiotic stress studies need to be much more fully investigated so that more realistic, and translatable, experiments can be designed. In addition to the questions developed in Boxes 1 and 2 , here are examples of questions to address: when carrying out heat stress...

... number of beliefs based on false testimony, not by turning each of us into a high-functioning polygraph but by turning the social environment of human communication into one in which such polygraphs are not required. Finally, I argue that these considerations support strong anti-reductionism about...

... of those actions. Our view shows that freedom is not only indispensable to teleology, but also that, contrary to common intuitions, there is no conflict between teleology and causal determinism. agency autonomy compatibilism determinism goal directedness materialism mechanism reductionism teleonomy...

... and their original material constituents. I argue that these proposals fail. I conclude that it is worth seriously considering alternatives to this sort of pluralism. grounding priority pluralism origin essentialism micro-reductionism composition Jonathan Schaffer ( 2010 : 31–2) has characterized the doctrine...

... a reason for that use, which one's understanding allows one to discern and act on. Any philosophical elucidation of meaning must adequately capture the rational nature of our linguistic acts. meaning scepticism normativity rationality guidance semantic non-reductionism In Wittgenstein on Rules...

... applications. We address these two problems, and build an argument for a rediscovery of the theory of holism in public health and health promotion, globally. holism holistic public health reductionism health promotion Over the past 40 years, there has been an intentional shift in thinking about...

... is assessed in full and from the intrinsic perspective of a system. theories and models consciousness computational modeling emergence philosophy reductionism The Φ values of all candidate systems are compared to find the maximum (Φ^Max). The set of elements...

... complete explanations than corpuscular mechanics alone would allow. Descartes mechanism reductionism systematicity On the face of it, appeals to whole systems and multiple levels within them ought to be a serious problem for Descartes. His metaphysics commits him to an ontology of the natural world...

... the Classical Infinitesimals Chink and Permeate?, MA Thesis 2009 the University of Melbourne Pluralism reductionism games noneism non-classical mathematics applied mathematics Abstract There is a plurality of mathematical investigations. These cannot all be reduced to proofs within the framework...

... the lived experience of pain as an emergent and unpredictable phenomenon, these progeny of the biopsychosocial model have been caught in circular argument and have been unable to overcome biomedical reductionism or the perpetuation of body–mind dualism. In particular, the implication that pain can...

... of genetical forces requires a knowledge both of the history of particular populations and of environmental pressures varying in time and space. KEY WORDS: -Evolution - reductionism - house mouse - natural selection. CONTENTS Introduction...

... and, as such, it is subject to a number of substantive criticisms, some of which have been elaborated from within mainstream economic theory. Reductionism Preferences Marxism Scientific method CJE 26/3 p. 313-329 FINAL 27/3/02 2:39 pm Page 313 Cambridge Journal of Economics 2002, 26, 313–329...

... or a hierarchical notion. Keywords: biological psychiatry, integrative principle, neurotransmitter, reductionism, system I. INTRODUCTION Psychiatry has undergone a major shift in theory and in practice in the last half- century. This is largely due to the introduction...

...Matilda White Riley Copyright 1996 by Offsetting the current tendency toward "life-course reductionism," insights from these papers The Cerontological Society of America illustrate a broader ("aging and society") paradigm — one that includes the life...

...Herbert W. Harris; Kenneth F. Schaffner disease philosophy of biology psychiatry reductionism © 1992 by The Society for Health and Human Values 1992 Abstract The study of mental illness by the methods of molecular genetics is still in its infancy, but the use of genetic markers in psychiatry...

.../genetic mother/genetic reductionism/ Johnson was to be paid $10 000 for her 'gestational services' gestational mother/surrogacy agreement and agreed to relinquish all parental rights over the infant who was to go to the Calverts...

...Gunther S. Stent brain complementarity free will mind-body problem neuroscience reductionism GUNTHER S. STENT THE POVERTY OF NEUROPHILOSOPHY ABSTRACT. The monist approach to the ancient mind-body problem styled "neurophilosophy" put forward recently by Patricia Smith...

...Richard L. Coulson; Paul J. Feltovich; Rand J. Spiro mental models knowledge representation reductionism myocardium heart failure physiology © 1989 by The Society for Health and Human Values 1989 Abstract A misconception regarding the ultrastructural basis of myocardial failure has been...