Reductionism and Misunderstanding Human Sociality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19003427 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Ernst (0000-0002-4687-1667, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0155-977X • E-ISSN: 1558-5727 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/015597704782352357 |
| OpenAlex | W2073346313 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Reducing human character, characteristics, and behavior to biological conditions of people or specific categories of them has long been an aspect of science, and emerges from The Enlightenment. It is in some senses a part of an heroic attempt to find the cause and effect explanations of everything—to provide consistent explanation of everything from falling stones to the determinates of ‘intelligence’ and criminal minds. These explanations are based in materiality. Gould (1981) provides a good summary of much of this
Aesthetics · Biology · Cognitive science · Enlightenment · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Reductionism · Sociality · Sociology · Cultural Differences and Values · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Philosophy · Psychology · Ecology
| Highly cited | No |
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