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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"reductionism"”.
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Kripkenstein and Non-Reductionism about Meaning-Facts
… be used as a basis to propose an alternative non-reductionism about meaning-facts.
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Methodology and Reductionism in the Philosophy of Mind
In contemporary philosophy of mind, the mind-body problem is often framed in terms ofthe reduction of psychology to neuroscience. In this thesis I argue that whether or notone regards such a reduction as tenable depends upon a methodological decision aboutthe importance of our naïve intuitions …
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A Critical Examination Of Understanding’s Characteristics: Why, In A Sense, Understanding Is Unique
… I argue that Sliwa's arguments in favor of reductionism fail. Sliwa's analytical argument in defense of reductionism is unsuccessful because a special kind of understanding, subjective understanding, can be independent of knowledge. And, Sliwa's background argument in defense of reductionism …
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Signification and political economy in Baudrillard.
… main theoretical strength is his avoidance of reductionism but that he effectively replaces economonistic reductionism with a 'semiotic' reductionism. This critique of Baudrillard's genealogy of simulacra forms the basis of a 'case study' of Baudrillard's writings on fashion. Ranging from …
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The structure of virtue ethics.
… than subjective content. Third, it rejects reductionism, hierarchy, and completeness. The alternative also rejects reductionism, hierarchy, and completeness. However, its foundation is human nature, which need not be identified with happiness. Such a theory is unavoidably naturalistic, and …
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Concepts of law of nature
… causes, etc. Insofar as the truth or falsity of reductionism about laws has implications for many of the problems mentioned above, I think that this result should be of interest even to those who who do not work in metaphysics or the philosophy of science. My methodology, which I lay out and …
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Managing the Risk of Failure in Complex Systems: Insight into the Space Shuttle Challenger Failure
… branch of science embraces the principles of reductionism, cause and effect, and determinism. Reductionism is used to dissect the system failure into its fundamental elements. The principle of cause and effect links the actions that led to the failure to the consequences that result. Analysts …
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Marxism and nationalism : the misleading European heritage
… the forces of production, the theory of Economic reductionism, and the Eurocentric bias in the discussion of the universal process of change.The works on the national question of Marx and Engels, Luxemburg, Kautsky, Bernstein, Lenin, Stalin, Gramsci and Bauer are evaluated in this work to show how …
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Visualizing the Other: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Objectification of the Body in Biomedical Research Using Human Subjects
… of subjects as persons. Instead, the rhetoric of reductionism within medical science has perpetuated the view that persons are bodies and bodies are merely biological objects. This dissertation aims to reshape the foundation of research ethics in order to focus on embodiment and, in particular, …
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Assessing computational methods and science policy in systems biology
… Traditional molecular biology has been driven by reductionism with the belief that breaking down a biological system into the fundamental biomolecular components will elucidate such phenomena. We have reached limitations with this approach due to the complex and dynamical nature of life and our …
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Love and ecology as an integrative force for good and as resistance to the commodification of nature and planetary harms: Introducing Fluminism.
… hand’ (Adam Smith). Depersonalisation and reductionism persists as non-human nature is simply deemed utility to humans ~ Natural Resources ~ when in fact nature is an ever dynamic and complex matrix/flow, of individual lives and supporting elements, forming inter-connections, of which we …
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Causation and Explanation in Molecular Developmental Biology
… novel perspective on the debate over biological reductionism by distinguishing between different paradigms of molecular explanation. Chapter Five provides a philosophical analysis of the so-called "Developmental Synthesis" of evolutionary and developmental biology, and suggests a general account …
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HENRY A MURRAY AND THE HARVARD PSYCHOLOGICAL CLINIC, 1926-1938: A STRUGGLE TO EXPAND THE DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES OF ACADEMIC PSYCHOLOGY
… Furthermore, Murray rejected psychological reductionism, instead promoting research methods derived from medicine and a theory of personality influenced by psychoanalysis and L. J. Henderson's biological systems theory.</p><p>These factors made the outcome of Murray's 1936-1937 promotion and …
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Bureaucratic Modernity and the Erosion of Practical Reason: A Rhetorical Education as an Antidote
… Ultimately, this entails a form of epistemic reductionism that elevates instrumental rationality to the exclusion of practical reason and probabilistic ways of knowing. Bureaucratic modernity signifies a decrease in choices that can be legitimized in public on some basis other than …
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Enhancing the Data, Information and Knowledge from Proteomics Experiments through Biomedical Informatics
… medicine and is discussed as an alternative to reductionism. In this work, shotgun proteomics is utilized along with systems thinking to quantify numerous proteins simultaneously and presents an unbiased, collective view of human health and disease. Following the capture of large amounts of …
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Measures from complexity science provide manufacturing companies with insights previously unavailable to them
… approach has been based on scientific reductionism, defining itself by list of "best practice" tools, techniques and philosophies. This thesis argues that this had led to loss of the "operational effectiveness" whole, causing variegated success in application of these tools. Complex …
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Projections and correlations in the fractional quantum Hall effect
… that the quantum Hall effect shows the limits of reductionism. In this work we focus on trial wavefunctions as descriptions of the phenomenon. Although highly succesful in the past their evaluation is often impeded by a feature known as lowest Landau level projection. We approach the projection …
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The Ontology and Ethics of Money.
… it blocks the slide into two problems of reductionism. The positivist perspective, on the one hand, reduces objects to their empirical existence and seeks to quantify them. The Post-structuralist perspective, on the other hand, reduces objects to our discourses and ignores their …
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Beyond Symptom Accumulation: A Lacanian Clinical Approach to Obsession - A Case Study and Theoretical Exposition
… of mental distress. Evidence for such biological reductionism is presented conclusively, with little regard for the implicit ontological assumptions made by such a positivist perspective. When psychopathology is viewed in this way, the role of human experience is devalued, resulting in an …
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