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41Antiscience — is a position critical of science and the scientific method. People holding antiscientific views are generally skeptical that science is an objective method, as it purports to be, or that it generates universal knowledge. They also contend that… …
42nature, philosophy of — Introduction the discipline that investigates substantive issues regarding the actual features of nature as a reality. The discussion here is divided into two parts: the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of biology. In this… …
43Antireductionism — is a reaction against reductionism, which instead advocates holism. [ [http://www.drury.edu/ess/philsci/KleeCh5.html Reductionism, Antireductionism, and Supervenience ] ] Although breaking complex phenomena into parts, is a key method in science …
44Relationalism — a number of related, contentious theories that hold, very roughly, that the nature of complex things can always be reduced to (be explained by) simpler or more fundamental things. This is said of objects, phenomena, explanations, theories, and… …
45Reduction (philosophy) — Reduction is the process by which one object, property, concept, theory, etc., is shown to be explicable in terms of another, higher level, concept, object, property, etc. For example, we say that chemical properties such as the boiling point of… …
46Two Dogmas of Empiricism — W. V. O. Quine s paper Two Dogmas of Empiricism , published in 1951, is one of the most celebrated papers of twentieth century philosophy in the analytic tradition. The paper is an attack on two central parts of the logical positivists philosophy …
47Philosophy of science — is the study of assumptions, foundations, and implications of science. The field is defined by an interest in one of a set of traditional problems or an interest in central or foundational concerns in science. In addition to these central… …
48Holism in science — Holism in science, or Holistic science, is an approach to research that emphasizes the study of complex systems. This practice is in contrast to a purely analytic tradition (sometimes called reductionism) which aims to gain understanding of… …
49Evolutionary psychology controversy — Articleissues POV = June 2008 refimprove = June 2008 unbalanced = June 2008The purpose of this article is to outline the various scientific, political and philosophical criticisms of that have been leveled against evolutionary psychology , as… …
50Daniel Dennett — Daniel Clement Dennett Full name Daniel Clement Dennett Born March 28, 1942 (1942 03 28) (age 69) Boston, Massachusetts …
