Reductionism and the Development of Knowledge By: Terrance Brown Publisher: Psychology Press Print ISBN: 9780805840698, 0805840699 eText ISBN: 9781135639884, 1135639884 Edition: 1st Pages: 248 Copyright year: 2002 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.18 USD SKU 9781135639884R90 Among the many conceits of modern thought is the idea that philosophy, tainted as it is by subjective evaluation, is a shaky guide for human affairs. People, it is argued, are better off if they base their conduct either on know-how with its pragmatic criterion of truth (i.e., possibility) or on science with its universal criterion of rational necessity. Since Helmholtz, there has been increasing concern in the life sciences about the role of reductionism in the construction of knowledge. Is psychophysics really possible? Are biological phenomena just the deducible results of chemical phenomena? And if life can be reduced to molecular mech Download ebook: https://ouo.io/CnXJyV
