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  • 111Economic determinism — is the theory which attributes primacy to the economic structure over politics in the development of human history. It is usually associated with the theories of Karl Marx, although many Marxist thinkers have dismissed plain and unilateral… …

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  • 112Economism — is a term used to criticize economic reductionism, that is the reduction of all social facts to economical dimensions. It is also used to criticize economics as an ideology, in which supply and demand are the only important factors in decisions,… …

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  • 113Multiple realizability — Hilary Putnam, one of the founders of multiple realizability Multiple realizability, in philosophy of mind, is the thesis that the same mental property, state, or event can be implemented by different physical properties, states or events. The… …

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  • 114Nancey Murphy — is Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA. She received the B.A. from Creighton University (philosophy and psychology) in 1973, the Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley (philosophy of science) in… …

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  • 115Dorothy Nelkin — Born July 30, 1933(1933 07 30) Boston, United States Died May 28, 2003(2003 05 28 …

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  • 116Developmental systems theory — In developmental psychology, developmental systems theory (DST) is an overarching theoretical perspective on biological development, heredity, and evolution [1]. It emphasizes the equal contributions of genes, environment, and epigenetic factors… …

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  • 117Stephen Mumford — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = 20th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE name = Stephen Mumford birth = July 31, 1965 (Wakefield, West Yorkshire) death = school tradition = Analytic philosophy main interests = dispositions,… …

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  • 118Synoptic philosophy — comes from the Greek words sun optikos , (“seeing everything together,”) and together with the word philosophy, means the love of wisdom emerging from a coherent understanding of everything together. [Christian, J. L. (1998). Philosophy: An… …

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  • 119Fragmentalism — is a term used to describe metaphysical positions such as philosophical realism, which hold that the world consists of individual and independent objects. [cite journal |author=Kukla A |title=Antirealist Explanations of the Success of Science… …

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  • 120Gerard de Zeeuw — (11 March 1936) is a Dutch scientist and professor Mathematical modelling of complex social systems at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Biography Gerard de Zeeuw was born in 1936 in Banjoewangi Indonesia, in the former Dutch Indies …

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