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Antireductionism, the Glossary

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Antireductionism is the position in science and metaphysics that stands in contrast to reductionism (anti-holism) by advocating that not all properties of a system can be explained in terms of its constituent parts and their interactions.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 27 relations: A Guide for the Perplexed, Alexander Rosenberg, Antiscience, Cognition, David Kaplan (philosopher), Donald Davidson (philosopher), E. F. Schumacher, Emergence, Günter P. Wagner, Hard problem of consciousness, Holism, Holism and Evolution, Holistic management (agriculture), Karl Popper, Max Velmans, Metaphysics, Mind–body problem, Ontology, Physicalism, Psychophysics, Qualia, Reductionism, Robert B. Laughlin, Science, Systems science, Systems theory, Thomas Kuhn.

  2. Holism

A Guide for the Perplexed

A Guide for the Perplexed is a short book by E. F. Schumacher, published in 1977.

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Alexander Rosenberg

Alexander Rosenberg (who generally publishes as "Alex") is an American philosopher and novelist.

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Antiscience

Antiscience is a set of attitudes that involve a rejection of science and the scientific method. Antireductionism and Antiscience are philosophy of science.

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Cognition

Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".

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David Kaplan (philosopher)

David Benjamin Kaplan (born September 17, 1933) is an American philosopher.

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Donald Davidson (philosopher)

Donald Herbert Davidson (March 6, 1917 – August 30, 2003) was an American philosopher.

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E. F. Schumacher

Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was a British statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies.

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Emergence

In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole. Antireductionism and emergence are holism.

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Günter P. Wagner

Günter P. Wagner (born May 28, 1954 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-born evolutionary biologist who is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary biology at Yale University, and head of the Wagner Lab.

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Hard problem of consciousness

In the philosophy of mind, the hard problem of consciousness is to explain why and how humans and other organisms have qualia, phenomenal consciousness, or subjective experience.

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Holism

Holism is the interdisciplinary idea that systems possess properties as wholes apart from the properties of their component parts.

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Holism and Evolution

Holism and Evolution is a 1926 book by South African statesman Jan Smuts, in which he coined the word "holism", although Smuts' meaning differs from the modern concept of holism. Antireductionism and holism and Evolution are holism.

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Holistic management (agriculture)

Holistic Management (from ὅλος holos, a Greek word meaning all, whole, entire, total) in agriculture is an approach to managing resources that was originally developed by Allan Savory for grazing management.

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Karl Popper

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator.

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Max Velmans

Max Velmans (born 27 May 1942 in Amsterdam) is a British psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, principally known for the theory of consciousness called "reflexive monism".

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Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality.

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Mind–body problem

The mind–body problem is a philosophical problem concerning the relationship between thought and consciousness in the human mind and body.

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Ontology

Ontology is the philosophical study of being.

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Physicalism

In philosophy, physicalism is the view that "everything is physical", that there is "nothing over and above" the physical, or that everything supervenes on the physical. Antireductionism and physicalism are philosophy of science.

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Psychophysics

Psychophysics quantitatively investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they produce.

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Qualia

In philosophy of mind, qualia (quale) are defined as instances of subjective, conscious experience.

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Reductionism

Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of other simpler or more fundamental phenomena.

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Robert B. Laughlin

Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University.

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Science

Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.

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Systems science

Systems science, also referred to as systems research, or, simply, systems, is a transdisciplinary field that is concerned with understanding simple and complex systems in nature and society, which leads to the advancements of formal, natural, social, and applied attributions throughout engineering, technology and science, itself.

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Systems theory

Systems theory is the transdisciplinary study of systems, i.e. cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent components that can be natural or artificial.

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Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.

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See also

Holism

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antireductionism

Also known as Anti reductionism, Anti-reductionism, Anti-reductionist.