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Reductionism

open access: yes, 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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Parfitian or Buddhist reductionism? Revisiting a debate about personal identity [PDF]

open access: yesAsian Journal of Philosophy
Derek Parfit influentially defends reductionism about persons, the view that a person’s existence just consists in the existence of a brain and body and the occurrence of a series of physical and mental events.
Javier Hidalgo
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Reductionism in retreat

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019
AbstractWe address the commentaries on our target article in terms of four major themes. First, we note that virtually all commentators agree that mental disorders are not brain disorders in the common interpretation of these terms, and establish the consensus that explanatory reductionism is not a viable thesis.
Denny Borsboom   +2 more
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Marr and Reductionism

Topics 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 ...
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From reductionism to reductionism

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2000
Neural organization attempts to thwart, at least in part, modern neuroscientists' tendency to focus reductionistically on ever smaller microsystems. But although emphasizing higher levels of systems organization, the authors end up enforcing reductionisms of their own, principally the reduction of their domain to the study of invariable normal ...
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Two Forms of Functional Reductionism in Physics [PDF]

open access: yesSynthÈse
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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Syntactic Reductionism

Philosophia Mathematica, 2000
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Reductionism

2004
Abstract We have all, whatever our particular professional academic expertise, from time to time been irritated by those of our colleagues who, coming from another discipline, claim that our discipline X is ‘nothing but’ an example and application of their discipline Y.
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LOOKING BEYOND REDUCTIONISM AND ANTI-REDUCTIONISM

Episteme, 2018
ABSTRACTUnder which conditions are we epistemically justified to believe that what other people tell us is true? Traditionally, the answer has either been reductionist or anti-reductionist: Either our justification reduces to non-testimonial reasons, or we have a presumptive, though defeasible, right to believe what we are told.
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Anthropomorphic Reductionism

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1972
E L, Dimmick, A B, Mason
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