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Trust to Testimony: Reductionism and Non-Reductionism
Дискурс, 2022 Introduction. The article is devoted to the epistemology of communicative knowledge. It is argued that the central problem in the analysis of such knowledge is the question of the status of testimony.
M. G. Khort
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CARTESIAN DUALISM AND PLOTINUS' PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2019 In this paper my intention is to tackle a few issues concerning some interpretations of Plotinus' "philosophy of mind". Firstly, I will address the validity of the idea that Plotinus was "the first Cartesian", advocated by John Dillon and E.K.
A. D. Risteski
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Vindicating Chance: On The Reductionism/Non-Reductionism Debate
Crítica, 2018 The debate between reductionist and non-reductionist accounts of chance is presented, and the dialectical burdens acquired by each side of the debate are identified: the motivation problem and the explanation problem.
Ramiro Caso
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The Non-Systemic Usages of Systems as Reductionism: Quasi-Systems and Quasi-Systemics
Systems, 2018 Usual reductionism considers systemic, acquired properties as non-systemic, possessed properties. We consider here the non-systemic usages of systems, misunderstood as non-interacting virtual objects or devices, and the misunderstanding between non ...
Gianfranco Minati
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Analogies, Non-reductionism and Illusions
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2015 This commentary focuses on three aspects of Sandro Nannini’s paper Time and Consciusness in Cognitive Naturalism: (1) the parallel between Einstein’s theory of relativity and the new science of the mind/brain; (2) the Cartesian characterization of non ...
Michele Di Francesco, Alfredo Tomasetta
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2017 Evolution has conserved “economic” systems that perform many functions, faster or better, with less. For example, three to five leukocyte types protect from thousands of pathogens.
Ariel L. Rivas +14 more
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Autonomy of Biology and Non-reductionism in the Biophilosophy of Francisco J. Ayala
Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2015 Reductionism is a very recurrent issue in the epistemology of Biology; this simplification is sometimes improperly carried out by positivist scientists. Professor F. J.
Diego Cano Espinosa
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An investigation into mental illness and its comorbidities from the perspective of supervenience physicalism [PDF]
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in MedicineThe exploration into the origin of human spirituality has always been a hot spot with many unsolved questions in the philosophy of mind, and issues concerning mental illness and its comorbidities are still unclear.
Ping Yang +3 more
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Critical Evaluation of Reductionism in Nigel and Oppenheim-Putnam Models of Science Unity [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021 The unity or non-unity of science has been one of the most important philosophical issues in the twentieth century. One of the most important answers to the question of the unity of science has been suggested by reductionists. The present article focuses
Mohammad Mahdi Hatami
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A Critical Study: Physical Closure and the Argument for Naturalism [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2021 Great naturalist philosophers like David Armstrong, David Papineau, Jeagwon Kim, and others have argued that the best arguments for naturalism are based on Physical Causal Closure (in brief P.C). P.C that is a premise in these arguments implies that only
Nima Narimani
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