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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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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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, 2011 Reductionism is a philosophical notion that encompasses a set of ontological, methodological, and epistemological claims about how entities, processes, methods, and knowledge relate to one another across levels of organization and/or scientific domains. Typically, the question is whether such elements at higher levels of organization (i.e., biological)
Malaterre, Christophe
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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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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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Psychiatry's Problem with Reductionism [PDF]
, 2019 Psychiatrists often contrast the biopsychosocial approach to mental illness withreductionism. However, what reduction in psychiatry might involve, what it entails for the biopsychosocial approach, and what its clinical implications might be, are ...
Roache, Rebecca
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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 Dilemma for Buddhist Reductionism [PDF]
, 2020 This article develops a dilemma for Buddhist Reductionism that centers on the nature of normative reasons. This dilemma suggests that Buddhist Reductionism lacks the resources to make sense of normative reasons and ...
Hidalgo, Javier S., Hidalgo, Javier
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 In this paper, I distinguish three different levels for describing, and three corresponding ways for understanding, deficient empathy as the core of NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder).
Kerrin A. Jacobs, Kerrin A. Jacobs
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The hard problem of consciousness—A perspective from holistic philosophy
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 Based on a material view and reductionism, science has achieved great success. These cognitive paradigms treat the external as an objective existence and ignore internal consciousness. However, this cognitive paradigm, which we take for granted, has also
Jicheng Chen, Linlin Chen
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