Tradition
Reductionism
Overview
Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of simpler or more fundamental phenomena. It is also described as an intellectual and philosophical position that interprets a complex system as the sum of its parts, contrary to holism. Reductionism tends to focus on the small, predictable details of a system and is often associated with various philosophies like emergence, materialism, and determinism.
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Philosophers who discussed Reductionism
- Ernest Nagel
- Mircea Eliade
- Giambattista Vico
- Twin Earth thought experiment
- Viktor Frankl
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Thomas Nagel
- John McDowell
- Jaegwon Kim
- Richard Dawkins
- Donald Davidson (philosopher)
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Jerry Fodor
- Paul Churchland
- Peter Hacker
- Brand Blanshard
- Frithjof Schuon
- Derek Parfit
- Julien Offray de La Mettrie
- Mary Midgley
- Roy Bhaskar
- Edgar Morin
- William C. Wimsatt
- Loren Eiseley
Related ideas
- Noumenon
- Reification (fallacy)
- Philosophy
- Michael Ruse
- Immanuel Kant
- Forcing (mathematics)
- Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
- Computability theory
- Johannes Kepler
- Kurt Gödel
- Vitalism
- Ernst Zermelo
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Albrecht Ritschl
- Mathematics
- Molecular biology
- Thomas Nagel
- Materialism
- Classical mechanics
- Holism
- Explanation
- Planet
- Physics
- Pejorative
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