Conceptually, reductionism is the greatest triumph of modern science, enabling multifaceted problems to be reduced to their constituent molecules.

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At the workshop the philosophers and scientists each added his own gloss to neo-Darwinian reductive naturalism or materialistic neo-Darwinian reductionism or naturalistic materialism or reductive determinism.

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He rejected the economic reductionism that drove the Washington consensus, and insisted instead on seeing people as products of culture rather than as profit-and-loss calculating machines.

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The brain is much more complicated than that, and is very likely simply not amenable to that kind of mathematical reductionism, any more than economic systems are.

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Can consciousness be studied using a reductionist approach, or is consciousness an emergent property arising from brain complexity and thus not amenable to the divide-and-conquer approaches of reductionism?

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We have learned to expect such dreary reductionism from the dwindling bands of committed partisans, but newspapers are supposed to be above all that, bravely rooting through the muck of rhetoric to find truffles of truth.

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This reductionism makes things easy.

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