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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.
Özkural, Eray, Özkural, E.
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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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Time Sensitivity and Acceptance of Testimony [PDF]
Organon F, 2020 Time sensitivity seems to affect our intuitive evaluation of the reasonable risk of fallibility in testimonies. All things being equal, we tend to be less demanding in accepting time sensitive testimonies as opposed to time insensitive testimonies.
Nader Alsamaani
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Systems, 2023 In this article, we explore some theoretical issues related to reductionism and systems. Fundamentally, reductionism neglects that a system can acquire properties.
Gianfranco Minati
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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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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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Organicism and Reductionism in Cancer Research: Towards a Systemic Approach [PDF]
, 2007 In recent cancer research, strong and apparently conflicting epistemological stances have been advocated by different research teams in a mist of an ever-growing body of knowledge ignited by ever-more perplexing and non-conclusive experimental facts: in ...
Malaterre, Christophe +1 more
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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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[Review of the book Reductionism in the Philosophy of Science, by Cachse] [PDF]
, 2007 Introduction: Reductionism in the Philosophy of Science develops a novel account of reduction in science and applies it to the relationship between classical and molecular genetics.
Brigandt, Ingo
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