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Analogies, Non-reductionism and Illusions [PDF]
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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Methodological Individualism and Reductionism [PDF]
, 2023 This chapter analyzes the relationship between methodological individualism (MI) and reductionism. While the latter term is mainly used in reference to MI with a negative meaning, i.e.
Di Iorio, F.
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So what do we really mean when we say that systems biology is holistic? [PDF]
, 2010 Background: An old debate has undergone a resurgence in systems biology: that of reductionism versus holism. At least 35 articles in the systems biology literature since 2003 have touched on this issue.
Gatherer, Derek, Derek Gatherer
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Water as a hybrid: an analytical structure based on a hydrosocial approach
Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2023 The reductionism promoted by modernity enabled a common sense as to what water was to be molded in the discrete form of H2O. Questioning that unique conception reproduced in studies of water resources and their governance, to the detriment of their ...
Hugo Kamiya Tsutsui +1 more
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, 2018 Ethical reductionism is the best version of naturalistic moral realism. Reductionists regard moral properties as identical to properties appearing in successful scientific theories.
Sinhababu, Neil
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A COMPROMISE BETWEEN REDUCTIONISM AND NON-REDUCTIONISM [PDF]
Worldviews, Science and Us, 2007 This paper investigates the seeming incompatibility of reductionism and non-reductionism in the context of complexity sciences. I review algorithmic information theory for this purpose. I offer two physical metaphors to form a better understanding of algorithmic complexity, and I briefly discuss its advantages, shortcomings and applications.
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Michael Gazzaniga’s Neuro-cognitive Antireductionism and the Challenge of Neo-mechanistic Reduction
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2018 Michael Gazzaniga, a prominent cognitive neuroscientist, has argued against reductionist accounts of cognition. Instead, Gazzaniga defends a form of non-reductive physicalism: epistemological neuro-cognitive non-reductionism and ontological monist ...
Diego Azevedo Leite
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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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An Examination and Critique of Bottom-Up Causation in the Interpretation of Free Will, Focusing on the Non-Reductionist Approach [PDF]
Comparative TheologyIn the reductionist view, humans are considered entirely physical beings, and therefore, their behaviors must be subject to the laws of nature. Consequently, this perspective concludes that humans cannot be free, autonomous, or morally responsible.
Tayybhe Gholami, Zahra khazaei
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Origins of Japanese archaic poetry: Japanese long song (nagauta / chōka)
Японские исследования, 2023 The presented article is devoted, on the one hand, to the general problem of the literary process in an archaic society on the example of the genesis of waka poetry; on the other hand, it directly refers to the archaism of the so-called long song ...
A. V. Suslov
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