Author: Richard H. Jones
Publisher: Bucknell Univ Pr
Keywords: reality, fullness, analysis, reductionism
Number of Pages: 409
Published: 2000-04
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0838754392
ISBN-13: 9780838754399

ReductionismOs approach brings together many of the most interesting questions today in philosophy (consciousness and computers) and in science (issues of complexity and self-organization). It also presents a brief history of how reductionism has developed in Western philosophy and religion, with reference to Indian philosophy on certain issues.

Author: Sahotra Sarkar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: philosophy, biology, studies, cambridge, reductionism, genetics
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1998-10-13
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0521637139
ISBN-13: 9780521637138

With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something "genetic"? This is the fundamental question that Sahotra Sarkar’s book addresses. This important book clarifies the meaning of the term "genetic," shows how molecular studies have affected genetics, and provides the philosophical background necessary to understand the debates over the Human Genome Project. It will be of particular interest to professionals and students in

Author: Alexander Rosenberg
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: molecular, biology, love, worrying, reductionism, stop, darwinian
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-09-15
List price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 0226727297
ISBN-13: 9780226727295

After the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953, scientists working in molecular biology embraced reductionism—the theory that all complex systems can be understood in terms of their components. Reductionism, however, has been widely resisted by both nonmolecular biologists and scientists working outside the field of biology. Many of these antireductionists, nevertheless, embrace the notion of physicalism—the idea that all biological processes are physical in nature. How, Alexander Rosenberg asks, can these self-proclaimed physicalists also be antireductionists? With clarity and wit, D

Author: Christian Sachse
Publisher: Ontos Verlag
Keywords: zur, erkenntnis, und, wissenschaftstheorie, schriften, studien, philosophy, science, epistemische, reductionism
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2007-08-31
List price: $89.00
ISBN-10: 3938793465
ISBN-13: 9783938793466

In contemporary philosophy of science, ontological reductionism, or the claim that everything that exists in the world is something physical, is the consensus mainstream position. Contrary to a widespread belief, this book establishes that ontological and epistemological reductionism stand or fall together. The author proposes a new strategy of conservative theory reduction that operates by means of the construction of functional sub-concepts that are coextensional with physical concepts. Thus, a complete conservative reductionism is established that vindicates both the indispensable scientifi

Authors:Terrance Brown, Leslie Smith,
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: symposia, series, piaget, jean, development, knowledge, reductionism
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0805840699
ISBN-13: 9780805840698

Among the many conceits of modern thought is the idea that philosophy, tainted as it is by subjective evaluation, is a shaky guide for human affairs. People, it is argued, are better off if they base their conduct either on know-how with its pragmatic criterion of truth (i.e., possibility) or on science with its universal criterion of rational necessity. Since Helmholtz, there has been increasing concern in the life sciences about the role of reductionism in the construction of knowledge. Is psychophysics really possible? Are biological phenomena just the deducible results of chemical phenome

Author: Bruce Kapferer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: social, rise, forum, analysis, interventions, reductionism, retreat, critical
Number of Pages: 125
Published: 2005-10-31
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 1845451759
ISBN-13: 9781845451752

The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no analytical value. Abstractions such as capitalism, consumerism, and the market are thrown around with abandon and often given an unexamined descriptive and explanatory potency. The essays presented here (all by leading anthropologists) take a variety of positions on the matter of the retreat of the