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These latter theorists, who reject both Schoeman's coherence thesis and distinctiveness thesis, may be referred to as reductionists, for they view what are called privacy concerns as analyzable or reducible to claims of other sorts, such as infliction of emotional distress or property interests.

Privacy DeCew, Judith 2006

He was a neuroscientist, quantum physicist, and unlike most neuroscientists who happen to be reductionists he actually had a very holistic view of the nature of consciousness.

Deepak Chopra: The Living Universe: Interview with Duane Elgin 2010

QM isn't a mystery, it's the mathematical description of how the whole thing works once the reductionists have reduced it to where they can't possibly reduce it any further.

Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

Reducing it to matter is a pointless academic exercise that really seems to appeal to reductionists for some reason.

A Useless Critic 2007

I am persuaded neither by religious fundamentalists nor by atheist reductionists, although there are individuals with more moderate points of view in both camps with whom I can have meaningful conversations, even if we end up disagreeing on various matters.

Self-Critical Faith James F. McGrath 2009

That is what makes it such a frustrating and fascinating topic for scientific analysis -- and why it makes fools of arrogant evolutionary reductionists like David Sloan Wilson.

David Sloan Wilson: Evolution and War: Basic and Advanced 2009

When I first began teaching, my students tended to be innate reductionists.

Nancey Murphy - Is “Nonreductive Physicalism” an Oxymoron? William Harryman 2009

Hard-core reductionists have simply lost track of the basis of their own ontology.

Free Will and Behavioral Genetics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

That is, when I presented them with the model of the hierarchy of the sciences, and a corresponding hierarchy of complex systems, I never had to explain why reductionists held the position they did.

Nancey Murphy - Is “Nonreductive Physicalism” an Oxymoron? William Harryman 2009

This metaphor allows one to argue that, in a sense, God is as real as you or I - and faces some of the same sorts of skepticism from reductionists.

Adventures in the Spirit: Part Two James F. McGrath 2009