Categories Quote by David Papineau

I'm not so sure that I am a reductionist in the strict type-identity sense. The issues here are messy. But I certainly a reductionist…

— David Papineau

“It is important to distinguish between reductionism as a philosophical posi- tion (or world-view) and as a methodology. Reductionism in the former sense is…

— E. Brian Davies

The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is…

— Nancy Pearcey

For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are created through…

— Vandana Shiva

Reductionism is merciless.

— Douglas Hofstadter

The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts…

— Freeman Dyson

Philosophy - reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse - develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment from that…

— Pierre Hadot

“The ideal of the 11th/17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of atoms. This…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Reductionism in the physical sciences has been challenged by the principle of emergence. The whole system acquires qualitatively new properties that cannot be predicted…

— Michael S. Gazzaniga

“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing the explanation…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says…

— Elliott Sober

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

— David Bentley Hart