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- noun use of biological principles in explaining human behavior, especially social behavior.
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- noun The use or emphasis of biological principles or methods in explaining human, especially social,
behavior .
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- noun use of biological principles in explaining human especially social behavior
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Examples
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They are, I believe, rooted in the nature of things, but not properly accounted for by the "biologism" of some versions of natural law.
A Thinking Reed Lee 2010
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Tallis spoke with withering disdain for the overreaching claims of reductive "biologism" and "Darwinitis," which "confuse our biological roots with our cultural leaves."
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And, in the latest issue of Applied Linguistics (31: 2, May 2010) she revisits the topic to critique what she calls “the new biologism”.
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The world of academe is currently in the grip of a strange and worrying ¬epidemic of biologism, which has also captured the popular imagination.
Rethinking Thinking Raymond Tallis 2011
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Both authors look outside the conceptual frameworks upon which biologism depends.
Rethinking Thinking Raymond Tallis 2011
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And, in the latest issue of Applied Linguistics (31: 2, May 2010) she revisits the topic to critique what she calls “the new biologism”.
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Thus it is notable when two books written by neuro-biologists of the greatest distinction are nonetheless critical of the simplifications—both scientific and philosophical—of biologism.
Rethinking Thinking Raymond Tallis 2011
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Ruddick (1984), for example, has laboured to dislodge her concept of 'maternal thinking' from nineteenth-century biologism and to construct a new theory of feminist pacifism based on the concept of 'preservative love' (in Pierson, 1987: 205).
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Reduction to physiologism or biologism don't seem feasible after Behe's or Wolfram's IC arguments.
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This facile biologism leads the critics to propose some distasteful remedies to allow these testosterone-juiced boys to express themselves.
Michael Kimmel on “The Boy Crisis” and Anti-Male Ideology 2006
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