Sentence examples for reductionist interpretation from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, a multimodal approach incorporating continuously variable cell types will facilitate an accurate reductionist interpretation of the nervous system.

The notion of internal goods was introduced by Macintyre to go beyond a reductionist interpretation of morality centered on rules, rights and duties (MacIntyre 1984).

In an interlude (1934 1938), Lorente embarked in studies of neuron physiology that inclined him to a reductionist interpretation of the axon as the main functionally relevant entity of neurons.

Thus, suffice it to say that some philosophers, like Craver, reject a reductionist interpretation of mechanistic explanation (Craver 2007), whereas others seem to suggest that a conservative form of reductionism may be compatible with mechanistic explanation (Bechtel 2007 and, especially, Schaffner 2006).

The analyses discussed here invite reductionist interpretations, on which, for example "good" just means pleasant, but the thesis that people consistently find pleasant things good is perfectly consistent with any number of different theses about what they mean by that designation and about what it really means to be good.

Moreover, if a pragmatic dimension is incorporated in the conception of functionalism, functionalism seems to contradict reductionist interpretations; it may be impossible as a matter of practice to specify the relevant roles using only the resources of the lower-level theories (cf. Van Gulick 2010).

While each initiative provides a welcome departure, it transpires that in several critical respects, they all eventually tend to get trapped in the dead-ends of the mainstream reductionist interpretations of wellbeing.

Clarke holds a strongly reductionist version.

On this view, P* merely realizes P; it is not identical with P. Given its denial of property identity, this latter view seems less apt to a reductionist interpretation.

As I point out in the next section, the Frankfurt School most often applied ideology critique to liberal individualism, pointing out its contextual limitations that lead to reductionist and pernicious interpretations of democratic ideals.

This reductionist viewpoint has been necessary in order to make experimental interpretation tractable.