The current antireductionist consensus rests in part on the indefensibility of the deductive-nomological model of explanation, on which classical reductionism depends. I argue that the DN model is ...

Cultural ecologists attempting to trace the influence of ecological scarcities on cultural development are often criticized for reductionism. In the Amazon case, critics of ecological theories have ...

Beyond the central dogma -- What is it that makes something living? -- The uncertainties -- The meanings of reductionism -- Epistemon and Eudoxus -- The reductionist experimental program -- A ...

This is the fourth in a series of posts whose central scientific point is stated as a conclusion, not a question like the title above. We seem, in the biosphere, to be beyond Newton, beyond Laplace, ...

Explore thought-provoking discussions at the Philosophy of Science Association meeting on spacetime and reductionism debates. To be honest, even though this was an interesting conversation and I can't ...