Reductionism

Reductionism had reached its peak in the sciences and in art.

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Blocked escerpts, together with one or two pieces of paraphrased information, taken from two volumes by Sahotra Sarkar, Prof. of Integrative Biology and Philosophy: Molecular Models of Life and Genetics and Reductionism.

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He is the author of Genetics and Reductionism: A Primer (1998), Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy (2005), Molecular Models of Life (2005), Doubting Darwin?

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Reductionism was the outcome of combining the atomism that early modern physicists took over from Epicureanism with the notion of deterministic laws of physics.

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In a manifesto in favor of molecular biology, he said: “Reductionism is the thesis that biological theories and explanations that employ them do need to be grounded in molecular biology and ultimately physical science, for it is only by doing so that they can be improved, corrected, strengthened, and made more accurate and more adequate and completed” (Rosenberg 2006, p. 4).

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In his Darwinian Reductionism (2006), he argued that “how-possibly” functional (= adaptive) explanations need to be turned into “why necessary” explanations via macromolecular details of the underlying genetic and biochemical pathways.

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Reductionism has its place, and no doubt my day is a bit more comfortable because of technology that owes its existence to reductionism, but science ultimately cleaves even the reductionist.

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Reductionism often is a part of science, but what it is, is a metaphysical principle about how these different abstractions should relate to each other.

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Reductionism is absolutely appropriate as a method in the sciences.

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Reductionism has its place, and no doubt my day is a bit more comfortable because of technology that owes its existence to reductionism, but science ultimately cleaves even the reductionist.

William Blake, J. S. Bach, and science doyle 2008