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The Fruits of the Unseen: A Jamesian Challenge to Explanatory Reductionism in Accounts of Religious Experience [PDF]

Open Theology, 2020
In Religious Experience, Wayne Proudfoot argued that a tout court rejection of reductionism in accounts of religious experience was not viable. According to Proudfoot, it’s possible to distinguish between an illegitimate practice of descriptive ...
Stepanenko Walter Scott
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Reductionism redux

eLife, 2016
Experiments on artificial membranes are revealing many details about the workings of a family of potassium ion channels called GIRK channels.
Christopher Miller
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Antioxidants: A Hot Controversy Defused by Cool Semantics [PDF]

Antioxidants
Recent years have witnessed a rather controversial debate on what antioxidants are and how beneficial they may be in the context of human health. Despite a considerable increase in scientific evidence, the matter remains highly divisive as different ...
Ahmad Yaman Abdin, Muhammad Jawad Nasim, Claus Jacob   +2 more
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Reductionism or Emergentism? [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023
The goal of science is to explain reality and the world, and the goal of philosophy is also ontology. Philosophical views on scientific opinions and scientific opinions have had a direct influence on the way of worldview and ontology.
Ahmad Ebadi, Mohammad Mahdi Amousoltani
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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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A cross-cultural religiology between reductionism and anti-reductionism

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
‘Religion’ has been subjected to two kinds of reduction: one from the various branches of religious studies, the other being the mutual ‘reduction’ among religions.
Guicai Wang
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Reductionism in Avicenna's Moral Thought [PDF]

حکمت سینوی, 2023
The aim of the present study is to organize Avicenna’s meta-ethical thought, providing a foundation for understanding the ethical system derived from his opinions. The primary focus is on determining Avicenna's overarching approach to the existence
behrouz muhammadimunfared
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Scientistic Philosophy, No; Scientific Philosophy, Yes [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
If successful scientific inquiry is to be possible, there must be a world that is independent of how we believe it to be, and in which there are kinds and laws; and we must have the sensory apparatus to perceive particular things and events, and the ...
Susan Haack
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Philosophical Reflection on Holism and Reductionism in Nutrition Science

Proceedings, 2023
Nutrition, as a science, is facing challenges. While issues regarding obesity, chronic diseases, and sustainability are becoming more pressing, nutrition science is encountering limitations regarding novel insights, trust, and social relevance.
Eline Baltussen, Marcel Verweij
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Theoretical Reflections on Reductionism and Systemic Research Issues: Dark Systems and Systemic Domains

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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