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Non-Reductionism and John Searle's The Rediscovery of the Mind

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1995
As one would expect, John Searle's latest book The Rediscovery of the Mind, is a daring and controversial work. It is a blunt and lively book, as is exhibited by the title that didn't make it: "What's wrong with the Philosophy of Mind?" Searle's long term goal is to bring consciousness back to center stage in the philosophy of mind from the rather ...
Brian J. Garrett, John Searle
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In defense of non-reductionism in the epistemology of testimony

Synthese, 2014
Almost everyone agrees that many testimonial beliefs constitute knowledge. According to non-reductionists, some testimonial beliefs possess positive epistemic status independent of that conferred by perception, memory, and induction. Recently, Jennifer Lackey has provided a counterexample to a popular version of this view.
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Non-Reductionism and Special Concern

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2007
The so-called ‘Extreme Claim’ asserts that reductionism about personal identity leaves each of us with no reason to be specially concerned about his or her own future. Both advocates and opponents of the Extreme Claim, whether of a reductionist or non-reductionist stripe, accept that similar problems do not arise for non-reductionism.
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Two Forms of Functional Reductionism in Physics [PDF]

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Functional reductionism characterises inter-theoretic reduction as the recovery of the upper-level behaviour described by the reduced theory in terms of the lower-level reducing theory.
Lorenzo Lorenzetti
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