Necessary Literature: On the Border Between Literature and Evolution by Michele Cometa

“…Literary criticism, above all that of European origin, however, withdraw in the face of these propositions, dusting off up the old anathema of reductionism (undoubtedly, a risk of the applying the evolutionary theory to culture), rather than genuinely engaging with the debate. …”
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Informal logic and fallacies in the field of history by Fatma Gültekin

“…Thus, in the study, a classification of historical reasoning fallacies is presented based on historical reasoning: “ambiguity, ad hominem, exaggeration, reductionism, over-generalization, false analogy, criteria-based fallacies, inductive fallacy, faulty causality, emotionalization, irrelevance, faulty justification, stereotypical thinking”. …”
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Towards the First Principles in Biology and Cancer: New Vistas in Computational Systems Biology of Cancer by Aleš Prokop

“…As an example, Thea Newman (2021) has applied “the lessons learned from physical systems to a critique of reductionism in medical research, with an emphasis on cancer”. …”
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The Rise of Emergent Corporate Sustainability: A Self-Organised View by Roger Maitland, Walter Baets

“…It adopts a complexity view and posits that reductionism associated with Newtonian thinking has contributed to the sustainability issues faced by humanity. …”
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The problem of preparing a person for life in the conditions of sustainable development of digital technologies and products by Efremova Nadezhda, Meskhi Besarion, Finko Margarita

“…This direction provides tools that explain the specifics of such components as: construc-tivism, operationalism, technicalism, pragmatism, reductionism, utilitarianism. Using the method of large-scale monitoring and analysis of respondents' answers, we found out that today the "digital generation" is more ready for digital transformation than the carriers of professional and academic knowledge. …”
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Embodied social cognition investigated with virtual agents: The infinite loop between social brain and virtual reality by A. Oker

“…However, until recently most research in social cognition continues to study mental processes in social interaction deliberately isolated from each other following 19th century’s scientific reductionism. Lately, it has been proposed that social cognition, being emerged in interactive situations, cannot be fully understood with experimental paradigms and stimuli which put the subjects in a passive stance towards social stimuli. …”
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A Complementary View to Computational Thinking and Its Interplay with Systems Thinking by Ali Hamidi, Anita Mirijamdotter, Marcelo Milrad

“…This study elaborates on how systems thinking (ST), an acknowledged theory in the IS field, bonds to CT to address some well-known common issues related to CT such as reductionism and dogmatism, and to supplement the computing nature of CT with behavioral and societal facets involved in its implications. …”
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Assessing Research Trends in Spiritual Growth: The Case for Self-Determined Learning by Esa Hukkinen, Johannes M. Lütz, Tony Dowden

“…Analysis suggests that many models are limited by linearity, passivity, and reductionism and do not adequately resonate with the complexities inherent in spiritual growth. …”
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Critical Examination of Meaning and the Possibility of Paradigm Shift by Accepting Emergentism by Seyed Hassan Hosseini, Massoud Toossi Saeidi

“…This article first provides a general analysis of the components of the scientific paradigm by examining the main themes of positions such as naturalism, reductionism, scientism, and the like. In the course of this analysis, the various components of the scientific paradigm are explained, and the relation of these components to each other is examined. …”
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Entheogens and Sacred Psychology by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos

“…Now that psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAT) is being developed, we must avoid repeating the mistakes of modern psychology, which misguidedly seeks to situate entheogenic therapy on a desacralized foundation of materialism, reductionism, and scientism. Nevertheless, although the full benefit of entheogens can likely be gained only in the context of a sacred tradition, they may still have some measure of therapeutic value even when used in conjunction with secular psychotherapy. …”
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DISABILITY, REPRESENTATION AND TRANSLATION: HOW CAN SOCIOLOGY MOVE BEYOND THE SOCIAL MODEL? by Seweryn Rudnicki

“…It first discusses the social model and argues that in spite of its numerous merits it may be regarded as a manifestation of sociological reductionism of the actual complexity of disability. …”
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Moving beyond landscape resistance: considerations for the future of connectivity modelling and conservation science by Unnithan Kumar, S, Turnbull, J, Hartman Davies, O, Hodgetts, T, Cushman, SA

“…However, the simplistic assumptions and high degree of reductionism inherent to the landscape resistance paradigm severely limits the ability of connectivity algorithms to account for many fundamental aspects of animal movement, and thus greatly reduces the effectiveness and relevance of connectivity models for conservation theory and practice. …”

Hermeneutic Approach to Quantum Learning by Ehsan Sabaghi Noushabadi, Hassan Rastegarpour, Majid AliAsgari

“…While the theory of simplicity has been influenced by modernity and the insights from Descartes and Newton who believe that phenomena can be reduced to their simplest form, quantum theory emphasizes holism and holds that all the components of being are dynamic and interconnected. Cartesian reductionism led to the linear causality between phenomena, which believed that phenomena were predictable and controllable, and therefore certain, but the Quantum perspective instead focused on the complexity and entanglement of relationships rather than on linearity and simplicity. …”
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The human brain in the transhumanist mindset. A neuroethical critique of the neuroscience paradigm by J. Galvañ

“…Conclusions An interdisciplinary vision is necessary to analyze the human mind, avoiding falling into the brain reductionism of the neuroscientific paradigm, for an holistic understanding of the human mind and behaviors, beside the integration of a philosophical reflection to join neurobiology and moral dimensions, in a humanist return from transhumanism. …”
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Identifying Teaching and Learning Opportunities within Professional Relationships between Clinic Supervisors by Susannah Sage-Jacobson, Tania Leiman

“…Further in light of the legal discipline’s particular tendencies towards isolationism and reductionism we consider whether successful strategies for longevity utilised by interdisciplinary groups, primarily from the humanities, might be successfully applied to a group based within the law faculty.…”
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Educational demotivation of the first-grade high school students in the rural areas: A grounded theory study by Dornā Sādeghi, Somayye Khodārahmi, Hasan Mo’meni

“…In the second phase, and through refining the concepts, the eight major categories were formed: »family capital«, »cross fields«, »teaching style«, »the hidden self«, »diverse roaming«, »traffic challenges«, »forms and contradictions of the assessment system« and» reductionism of literacy to reading and writing«. Finally, based on the discovered major categories, the central focus of the research, namely the academic anxiety as a behavioral, institutional and cultural poverty was determined and a grounded theory was developed.…”
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Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Transparency and Employees’ Trust: The Parallel Multiple Mediating Effect of Effectiveness and Discomfort by Liangru Yu, Yi Li

“…Based on the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) model, algorithmic reductionism, and social identity theory, this paper explores the impact of AI decision-making transparency on humans’ trust in AI from cognitive and emotional perspectives. …”
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The Reflective Practicum in the Process of Becoming a Teacher: The Tutor’s Discursive Support by Rosario Cubero-Pérez, Mercedes Cubero, Miguel Jesús Bascón

“…The initial positivist approach viewed the relationships between teachers’ theoretical knowledge and educational practice in terms of hierarchical reductionism. We analyze the relationships between different types of knowledge from a historical-cultural perspective, which requires locating them in the context of the cultural activities. …”
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“Minimalism technology in the recycling of materials used in interior design and its relationship to environmental sustainability “ by Assist. Prof.Dr / Rehab Abd Elfatah Nussir Sherif

“…This will study the trend of the new reductionism in design in terms of features and technology and the link between them on the one hand and environmental sustainability in the design formally and functionally. …”

On the Role of Psychoneuroimmunology in Oral Medicine by Lennart Seizer, Christian Schubert

“…A biopsychosocial approach has the potential to move disease models in oral medicine from simple connections rooted in empirical dualism and reductionism to the establishment of network-based models. …”
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