reductivism

I worry that if I restrict myself to the term reductivism won't obscure all of this.

Larval Subjects . 2009

Carl asks why I don't simply refer to the Hegemonic Fallacy as "reductivism", and wonders if I simply take pleasure in naming.

Larval Subjects . 2009

But my point is that rather than viewing Stein’s concentration on a grammatical structure, her focus on style, as opposed to a generic form, as a kind of reductivism, one should understand it as an attempt to expand the restrictions normally imposed by the structures of narrative art.

Gertrude Stein greenintegerblog 2008

Instead of complaining about reductivism, the real question should be: what are the abstract qualities of our human relationships that any online system * should* mirror.

Relationships are complicated | FactoryCity 2008

I've argued that between Dennett's reductivism, materialist commitment, and otherwise, his thoughts on intentionality and belief lead to a meaning of those words that sets him far apart from what people normally mean or expect.

Blurring the Line 2007

I have thought that traditional methods of the humanities — the interpretation of text in its linguistic as well as historical richness — has suffered somewhat in legal scholarship in recent years under a certain economics-oriented reductivism.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Robert Tsai on ‘Eloquence and Reason’ 2009

With these clarifications in mind, let us turn now to the considerations that led some medieval philosophers to reject reductive realism in favor of some form of non-reductivism.

Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

It is curious, as I look at the things in my own life: my own failures that led to success, my sometimes asinine reductivism concerning eras that were quite complicated, yet I still shrug and say "it all sucked."

through with buzz 2006

It is curious, as I look at the things in my own life: my own failures that led to success, my sometimes asinine reductivism concerning eras that were quite complicated, yet I still shrug and say "it all sucked."

luck is the residue of design 2006

There is one motive for reductivism that does not operate simply on the ethical, or on the non-ethical, but tends to reduce every consideration to one basic kind.

Value Pluralism Mason, Elinor 2006