Reductionism

Before writing the tenets of Semantic Externalism, Hilary Putnam had put forward the question Is Semantics Possible? in 1970. When he had framed this question there were three people who had started working on this. These Philosophers were- Jerry Fodor, Jerold katz and Putnam himself. But by the course of time they all took different direction with the same question. Putnam had written two successive articles on this question, one is ‘ the meaning and reference’ in 1973 and the other is ‘ the…

As much as we credit Darwin for the theory of evolution, he in fact was not the first naturalist to propose this idea that species somehow change over a period of time into new species with different characteristics. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck was both a naturalist and a botanist with extreme expertise in invertebrates. Before 1800 Lamarck believed that the idea of evolution was impossible. The developing fossil record and concept behind extinction most likely…

study of class, gender and race is to achieve more than the credentials in their relative growth, and the effects in specific circumstances and experiences. (pg. 2) She has noticed most sociologists do not take Marxism seriously and that theorists of gender and racial oppression have been rather hostile towards Marxism 's apparent allegations. Importantly, in our country where class does not use common sense to understand the world is an issue that remains noticeably absent from the terminology…

negative stereotypes in a positive manner (Hall, 1997, p. 272). When a positive image is created, this “expands the range of racial representations and the complexity of what it means to” be a member of a particular racial group, “thus challenging the reductionism of earlier stereotypes” (Hall, 1997, pp. 272-273). This strategy promotes a range of positive representations of the stereotyped group in question. To further elaborate, actress, Eva Longoria, executed this strategy in order to alter…

In the book, The Landscape of History, John Lewis Gaddis compares the study of history to the study of natural science. He presents many convincing observations about how the two fields of study are alike. In addition to informing his readers about the similarities between the natural sciences and history, he also makes a case that history is very different from social sciences, which it is often grouped with. Throughout his book, Gaddis presents his readers with many examples of how history…

The distinction between qualitative and quantitative goes far beyond that of whether or not numbers are being implemented during the process of recording data; qualitative researchers can use numbers to label and categorize objects. The conventional view is that the qualitative researcher finds their observations to be more descriptive and contextually dependent, while the quantitative researcher is allowed to make predictions and deductive inferences while assuming that their findings can be…

barely give it any attention. The feel that we are exclusively separated from the body and mind determines fundamentally the way in which we approach to the world. This is the beginning of scientific objectivity, a total conversion to mechanistic reductionism. An alternative solution is to restore and renew the religion in the western society. Which will save our urban industrial society from self-destruction. It is necessary because the society that is build is without a spirit, and eventually…

scientists have equations and graphs to help them figure out solutions rather than mostly just their own knowledge. Historians made a distinction between a reductionist and an ecological view of reality, by breaking it up into many different parts. Reductionism describes how components interact. The ecological view of reality is inclusive. Historians acknowledge patterns because that is what makes up history and its events; each event leads up to the…

The age of the brain and mind has ushered in a host of new disciplines, set to unveil some of the mysterious processes of the brain. Cognitive science, in particular, is an interdisciplinary area of study - combining psychology, anthropology, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, and philosophy – that focuses on the mind. A subdivision of cognitive science, called the cognitive science of religion, explores the connection between religious experience and the mind. As Christians, we must…

Christians live in such a way that when people look at scripture, they perceive it as “my” redemption story instead of realizing the global and even universal impact of the Gospel. Webber states that in doing so, Christians begin to suffer from reductionism. It is a form of study and way of life that diminishes true power of scripture by piecing together different sections of the Bible for personal use/application. He then makes a smooth transition into a historical context of the Bible by…