Reductionism

Do Islam, Judaism, and Christianity worship the same God? Often enough a great question, very much debated is asked of Islamic, Judaism, and Christian religions. The question asked is if Islam, Judaism, and Christianity worship the same God. Some people will say of course they do, while others will totally disagree. The best way to come to some sort of a conclusion is to compare and contrast the religions and examine their history. Abraham’s Beginnings of Religions All hail Abraham! When looking…

The argument against cognitivism is dubbed non-cognitivism, which is a form of expressivisim, that comes in many forms including emotivism, prescriptivism, norm expressivism, quasi-realism, and assertoric descriptivism. Cognitivism is the idea that an ethical question has a right or wrong answer simply in being, so thus in non-cognitivism one is going against this idea of black and white, or that moral absolutes does not exist. Each of the types of expressivism is unique in its approach. For…

The emergence of biomedicine and the development of medical technologies created a new form of medical practice, clinical gaze. In Foucault’s concept of clinical gaze, medical practice and the power relationship between doctors and their patients have been transformed (1973). Foucault says “‘facilitated by the medical technologies that frame and focus the physicians’ optical grasp of the patient, the medical gaze abstracts the suffering person from her sociological context and reframes her as a…

The rise of Hitler and National Socialism had led to a revival and the use of psychohistory, in attempting to offer a newly found dimension in explaining the events that had led up to this German political crisis. Psychohistory probes the unconscious psychic influences that control man’s behaviour whilst making him oblivious to these forces of irrationality. Historians who utilise these approaches draw on psychological analysis to clarify human motivations that drove individuals or groups to…

models of illness sway decisions on individual patients and delivery of health care The social model of health The social model of health bids a unique and holistic description and understanding of health that moves beyond the limitations and reductionism allied with the medical model of health. Health, according to the social model, is not a state of being merely under the purview of the medical profession, nor is health and disease only made comprehensible by findings of medical science.…

The enlightenment period in Europe was characterized by its emphasis on the scientific method and reductionism along with the belief that reason is the primary source of authority and legitimacy. (Often, a broad examination of ethics, politics, and society are seen established in the artistic works. Many beliefs of the enlightenment were based on questioning the legitimacy of ideas or values. One of the aspects of enlightenment that sets it apart from its predecessor the renaissance was the…

explain how do organisms learn or acquire behavior. Among some of the main components of behaviorism it can be mentioned classical and operant conditioning, stimulus-response, reinforcements and punishments, objective measure, social learning, and reductionism (the notion that human behavior can be explained by breaking it down into smaller elements), (Khan, 2013; McLeod, 2013). Ivan Pavlov, John Watson, Edward Thorndike, and B.F. Skinner figure among some of the key theorist of this approach,…

wonderful people”, and does not call them delusional. This respect for others’ beliefs even when he does not agree with them can help the relationship between faith and science. 2. Neil deGrasse Tyson is articulating both materialism and reductionism. He expresses materialism, or that only the things we perceive with our senses are real, when he refuses to believe in an afterlife since…

generalize information about humans from observing animals, although they acknowledge that humans are much more complex (Henderson & Thompson, 2011). The basis for behavioral therapy stems from three major ideas, reductionism, determinism, and empiricism (Henderson & Thompson, 2011). Reductionism refers to analyzing actions to the ultimate origin which is biology (Henderson & Thompson, 2011). Determinism suggests that all…

The Torres Strait Islander bone mounds are the subject of much speculation and research. The connection between the mounds and the Islanders who created them has formed the core of discussions on this subject. In this essay I will examine the usage of both archaeological practices and archaeological theory in relation to animal bone discovery. My focus will be on dugong bones in particular; looking at the pattern of sustainability their hunting has endured over time. I will assess the methods…