Sentence examples for reductivism from inspiring English sources

Among the philosophers who rejected reductivism on these or other grounds were Searle, Roderick Chisholm, Zeno Vendler, Thomas Nagel, Roger Penrose, Alastair Hannay, and J.R. Smythies.

Describing this period many years later, he told an interviewer, "I didn't read, I didn't go to movies, I didn't listen to music," and added, citing Rohmer, " 'In those years I wasn't alive.' " Ultimately, the reductivism and hortatory optimism of Maoism proved too much.

But Trilling complained of reductivism: the statistical method removed sex from religion, morality, social life — everything that, in the past, had given it meaning.

The work was clearly influenced by Minimalist reductivism, and by a post-Minimalist bent toward reticence.

Made from reflecting metal or plexiglass and inscribed with the script, these sculptures marry Minimalism's reductivism to ancient architectural forms like the obelisk, ziggurat and pyramid.

Also, as a multiethnic empire, the Soviet Union was prepared to distort linguistics and anthropology to prop up the gray reductivism of Pan-Slavism.

But in fact reductivism accommodates endless impure variations.

His non-reductivism in the philosophy of action bears a greater resemblance to that defended by Von Wright (1971), F. Stoutland (1976) and, more recently, T. Burge (1993) and L. Rudder Baker (1993), than to that of D. Davidson.

With these clarifications in mind, let us turn now to the considerations that led some medieval philosophers to reject reductive realism in favor of some form of non-reductivism.

The Scylla is a straightforward anti-reductivism about collective intentionality that comes at the cost of a flat-out rejection of individual intentional autonomy.

Thus, the Individual Ownership Thesis places tight restrictions on non-reductivism about collective intentionality.