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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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Methodological Individualism and Reductionism
, 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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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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Vindicating Chance: On The Reductionism/Non-Reductionism Debate
Crítica, 2018 The debate between reductionist and non-reductionist accounts of chance is presented, and the dialectical burdens acquired by each side of the debate are identified: the motivation problem and the explanation problem.
Ramiro Caso
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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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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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The Case for Whole-Person Integrative Care
Medicina, 2021 Rationale: There is a need for medicine to deliver more whole-person care. This is a narrative review of several models of whole-person care and studies that illustrate the business case for whole-person models in primary care.
Wayne B. Jonas, Elena Rosenbaum
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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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Is an Integrative Model of Neurotheology Possible?
Religions, 2021 This article examines the basic and dialogical models of neurotheology and suggests a third model based on the work of Aldous Huxley. In other words, this proposal is not limited to understanding this discipline as a mere pursuit of neural correlates or ...
Leandro M. Gaitán, Javier S. Castresana
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