All in all, it's a brutally reductive conception of civic life, and one with little to offer those of us whose notions of citizenhood are more robust.
Only Haeckel had drawn out a more general reductive conception of humanity from evolutionary theory and he had not ventured into the specific issues of ethics, social organization, the origins of human races, and the relation of human mental properties to those of animals, all of which are dealt with in the Descent.
And again, it is possible to view this position as a non-reductive conception of law, maintaining that legal validity cannot be reduced to non-normative facts.
But the quest for critical positivism for proof, through the images they loved, of these Hollywood directors' artistry led to a reductive and reduced conception of the cinema, one that has, in fact, at times afflicted their movie-making as well.
But the quest for critical positivism — for proof, through the images they loved, of these Hollywood directors' artistry — led to a reductive and reduced conception of the cinema, one that has, in fact, at times afflicted their movie-making as well.
Roth [2004] takes seriously the mutual obligations identified by Gilbert, and offers an account that, while non-reductive, nevertheless invokes a conception of intention and commitment that in some respects is friendlier to that invoked by Bratman.
That is, one might argue that Schaffner's peripherality thesis indicates that his conception of reduction is not the epistemically relevant one because it cannot illuminate the fruitfulness of reductive inquiry in molecular genetics.
Michael Bratman [1992] offers an influential proposal in a reductive vein that makes use of his planning conception of intentions.
However, the response to this is that circularity is only a problem if the conceptions are interpreted as providing a reductive analysis of the notion of the physical.
The construct presented above is reductive.
Weber (2005), however, seeks to replace Nagel's conception with one that retains the idea that reductive explanation involves subsumption under laws of the reducing science.
