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Reductionism redux

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

open access: yesOpen 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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The problem of reductionism in educational theory: Complexity, causality, values

open access: yesPower and Education, 2019
This article seeks to examine some of the problems in current policy, pedagogy and practice through the concept of reductionism. It examines various forms which this may take involving inappropriate scientific methodologies, a diminished sense of ...
Terry Wrigley
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The Non-Systemic Usages of Systems as Reductionism: Quasi-Systems and Quasi-Systemics

open access: yesSystems, 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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Marr and Reductionism

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, 2015
AbstractDavid Marr's three‐level method for completely understanding a cognitive system and the importance he attaches to the computational level are so familiar as to scarcely need repeating. Fewer seem to recognize that Marr defends his famous method by criticizing the “reductionistic approach.” This sets up a more interesting relationship between ...
J. Bickle
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Reductionism or Emergentism? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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

open access: yesДискурс, 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

open access: yesHTS 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]

open access: yesحکمت 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]

open access: yesJournal 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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