Zagadnienie redukcjonizmu w filozofii biologii

• Authors: Joanna Luc

Title variants

EN

The Issue of Reductionism in the Philosophy of Biology

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The aim of this article was to present one of the methods of reconciling of epistemological antireductionism and ontological physicalism, which explains differences between sciences, through an ontological picture of the most general structure of reality. The main thesis held that accepting this perspective allows us to achieve the above-mentioned reconcilement. First, the main arguments for and against physical reductionism, were described before the ontological assumptions were presented; then the assumptions was analysed in the light of this ontological construction as well as some facts from the fields of methodology and the history of natural sciences. Finally, some conclusions were drawn from the presented vision. They were connected with the epistemological status of analogy and methodological postulate of simplicity.

Keywords

PL

reductionism; antireductionism; eliminativism; physicalism; philosophy of biology; complex systems

• Publisher: Copernicus Center Press
• Journal: Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 52
• Pages: 179-201

Dates

published

2013-06-25

Contributors

author

Joanna Luc