Reductionism's demise: Cold comfort
Zygon 39 (2):321-337 (2004)
| Abstract | . Nonreductive physicalism, as opposed to reductionism, enjoys wide popularity by virtue of being regarded as comporting with the traditional image of human beings as free and ontologically unique without the difficulties of mind-body dualism. A consideration of reasons, both good and bad, for which reductionism is rejected suggests instead that the move to nonreductive physicalism does nothing to mitigate the implications of a physicalist account of human nature | |||||||||
| Keywords | Dualism Ethics Freedom Physicalism Reductionism | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,701 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesAndrew Lugg (1975). Putnam on Reductionism. Cognition 3:289-293.
Tushar K. Sarkar (1982). Types of Reductionism: Their Alleged Incompatibility with Anti-Physicalism. In Logic, Ontology And Action. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press.
Erhan Demircioglu (2011). Supervenience and Reductive Physicalism. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 7 (1):25-35.
Stuart Silvers (1997). Nonreductive Naturalism. Theoria 12 (28):163-84.
Alexander Rosenberg (2006). Darwinian Reductionism, or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology. University of Chicago Press.
A. C. Scott (2004). Reductionism Revisited. Journal of Consciousness Studies 11 (2):51-68.
Scott Sturgeon (2001). The Roots of Reductionism. In Carl Gillett & Barry M. Loewer (eds.), Physicalism and its Discontents. Cambridge University Press.
Andrew Melnyk (1995). Two Cheers for Reductionism, or, the Dim Prospects for Nonreductive Materialism. Philosophy of Science 62 (3):370-88.
Ansgar Beckermann (2001). Physicalism and New Wave Reductionism. Grazer Philosophische Studien 61:257-261.
A. C. Scott (1998). Reductionism Revisited. In Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak & A. C. Scott (eds.), Toward a Science of Consciousness II. MIT Press.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads11 ( #99,573 of 549,124 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #63,361 of 549,124 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
