PHILOSOPHY OF DESCARTES: BASIC INTENTION AND STATUS OF ANTHROPOLOGY ABSTRACT by Anatolii Malivskyi

“…The purpose of the article is to emphasize the insufficiency of reductionist interpretation of Descartes’ heritage and to bring into focus the constitutive role of anthropology in Descartes authentic project. …”
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Spinoza’s Evanescent Self by Sanja Särman

“…In section 1, I introduce the reductionist interpretation of selfhood in Spinoza’s thought. …”
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From just transitions to just transformations; observations from Aotearoa New Zealand in addressing the human wellbeing impacts of climate change by Isabella Lenihan-Ikin, Proochista Ariana, Caesar Atuire

“…Drawing on historical conceptualisations and applications of just transitions, their limitations and potential, we argue that an expansive and anti-reductionist conceptualisation of the just transition is best suited to address complex and inter-sectoral issues across time and space. …”
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A Problem of Perspective: Religions in Africa or African Traditional Religion by Osman Şahin

“…This has led to the continuation of the reductionist and generalising approach in the relevant literature. …”
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Scaling up uncertain predictions to higher levels of organisation tends to underestimate change by James A. Orr, Jeremy J. Piggott, Andrew L. Jackson, Jean‐François Arnoldi

“…Abstract Uncertainty is an irreducible part of predictive science, causing us to over‐ or underestimate the magnitude of change that a system of interest will face. In a reductionist approach, we may use predictions at the level of individual system components (e.g. species biomass), and combine them to generate predictions for system‐level properties (e.g. ecosystem function). …”
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Éros minoritaire : tel qu’il est vécu by Françoise d’Eaubonne

“…Confronting a biologistic conception of human sexuality she denounces all forms of reductionist fundamentalisms and advocates for an acceptation of homosexuality “the way it's daily lived” by men and women.…”
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Éducation au développement durable : intérêts et limites d’un usage scolaire des investigations multiréférentielles d’enjeux by Jean-Marc Lange

“…For many authors, these societal issues, the objects of this education, require a global and complex approach opposed to an analytical, reductionist and scientist approach, or that they betray the ideal the acquisition of knowledge in favor of a utilitarian drift. …”
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Neurological Impairment and Literary Empowerment in Nicole Krauss’s Man Walks into a Room by Pascale Antolin

“…To resist the growing authority of neuroscience and its often reductionist discourse, Krauss features a neurosurgeon as a mad scientist coming straight out of a science-fiction novel, who uses discursive strategies borrowed from the humanities. …”
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Interpretations of the Tower of Babel narrative in the African context by M. Rathbone

“…The problem is that some of these new perspectives are influenced by rationalism that may result in reductionist interpretations of the Tower of Babel narrative. …”
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A systems model for Political Communication by Paul Vorster

“…It is concluded that a systems approach is, at this stage in the development of Political Communication as a field, preferred to more reductionist approaches. …”
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Os gêneros narrativos e as temáticas sociais em ficções seriadas brasileiras para streaming by Simone Maria Rocha, Marcos Vinicius Meigre e Silva

“…Finally, the thematic approaches avoid reductionist treatments and promote reflections aimed at building more pluralistic, democratic and citizen-based societies.…”
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Are Pitch-Class Profiles Really “Key for Key”? by Ian Quinn

“…This suggests that reductionist approaches to tonality may be off the mark, or at least that pitch-class reductionism might not be necessary for a principled account of key.…”
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Berkeley’s Best System: An Alternative Approach to Laws of Nature by Walter Ott

“…Pace most commentators, I argue that Berkeley’s view is neither instrumentalist (since law statements have truth values and descriptive content) nor reductionist. More important, the Berkeleyan Best System can solve some of the problems afflicting its Humean rivals, including the problems of theory choice and Nancy Cartwright’s ‘facticity’ dilemma. …”
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Metacognitive monitoring in Mowlavi's couplet-poem (Mathnawi) by Monireh Taliehbakhsh

“…This awareness of the conditions of obtaining knowledge leads Mowlavi to criticize reductionist and mono-structural knowledge.…”
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Information and knowledge: an evolutionary framework for information science by Marcia J. Bates

“…</b> Thus, rather than being reductionist, the approach taken demonstrates the fundamentally emergent nature of most of what higher animals and human beings, in particular, experience as information.…”
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Health, Complexity and non-communicable Diseases by Alfredo Darío Espinosa Brito

“…Health faces new challenges that cannot be explained by reductionist conceptions. The attempt to group various conditions in non-communicable diseases that cause three quarters of deaths in the world and in Cuba is recognized as one of the great challenges of sustainable development. …”
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A Critique on the Book Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault by Shamsol Muluk Mostafavi

“…An attempt will be made to show how Hicks's view on the unequivocal acceptance of the capitalist order influenced his report of the origins of postmodernism and the current state of the movement, leading to a reductionist and partisan analysis on his side.…”
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Challenges of the Newtonian Paradigm for Management of Health Delivery System: A Perspective by Mohammad Zayandeh

“…This paradigm adopts a reductionist approach, where understanding the entire system hinges on understanding its constituent parts. …”
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What Is Artificial about Life? by Alessandro Giuliani, Ignazio Licata, Carlo M. Modonesi, Paolo Crosignani

“…This is particularly evident in biology, where the pervading paradigm is still dominated by a physically naïve reductionism in which the only relevant causative layer is the molecular one. The reductionist hypothesis is that everything one observes is the result of an underlying molecular mechanism almost independent of the context in which it operates. …”
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Generating Diverse Spinal Motor Neuron Subtypes from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells by Rickie Patani

“…I conclude that motor neurogenesis from PSCs provides a powerful reductionist model system to gain insight into the developmental logic of MN subtype diversification and serves more broadly as a leading exemplar of potential strategies to resolve the molecular basis of neuronal subclass differentiation within the nervous system. …”
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