A Relational Perspective on Collective Agency by Yiyan Wang, Martin Stokhof

“…Individualism and Cartesian internalism have long restricted orthodox theories and made them face the tension between an irreducible concept of a collective and ontological reductionism. Heterodox theories as functionalism and interpretationism reinterpret the concept of agency and accept it as realized on the level of a collective. …”
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The Practice Turn in Organization Research: Towards a Disciplined Transdisciplinarity by Whittington, R

“…Responding to some recent criticisms of practice-theoretic research in organizations, the paper argues that transdisciplinarity will be fostered by a disciplined approach to practice theory, based on a commitment to social practices, and respect for agency, materiality, discourse, the limits of social scientific knowledge and a refusal of reductionism. …”

Practical Intersubjectivity and Normative Guidance: Bratman on Shared Agency by Roth Abraham Sesshu

“…I give reasons to resist his form of reductionism. In addition, I note how Bratman’s discussion raises the interesting issue of the function or purpose of shared intention and of shared agency more generally. …”
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Theological Axiology of Reality by Pavel Hanes

“… In the present discussion of the multiplicity of sciences as against the unity of knowledge, sometimes the possibility of one super-science is advocated with a suggestion that all other scientific methods should be reduced to just one method of a one particular, usually natural science. Such reductionism often leads to disrespectful pronouncements at the address of all other sciences and their methods. …”
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All Teeth and Claws: Constructing Bears as Man-Eating Monsters in Television Documentaries by Michael Fuchs

“…Shark Week, as Matthew Lerberg (2016) has shown, epitomizes the representational reductionism which operates across media—sharks are nothing but fin and jaws. …”
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Metatheory, Interdisciplinarity and Disability Research: A Critical Realist Perspective by Roy Bhaskar, Berth Danermark

“…Different methodological tendencies within the field of disability research are described, and the reductionism implicit in the historically dominant models is critiqued. …”
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Naturalism and the Ethical Meaning of Phenomenology by Andrea Zhok

“…In the following pages we will first try to illustrate the impact of ontological naturalism on the contemporary ethical vision and then to show how the phenomenological perspective is best understandable as a way to reveal the blind spots of naturalism, to denounce its implicit reductionism, and to reopen an ethical perspective that the historical establishment of a naturalistic worldview had artificially closed. …”
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Problems of the logistic preparation of future lawyers by Gerashchenko Alena Igorevna, Gerashchenko Igor Germanovich

“…The authors substantiate the idea that one should not limit oneself to teaching mathematical logic alone, since this method contradicts the principle of pluralism and leads to reductionism in the formation of the logical culture of future lawyers. …”
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Sócrates según Nietzsche by Greta Rivara Kamaji

“…This task could only be accomplished by the acknowledgement of the elements that led Nietzsche to an image of Socrates that one can estimate as a reductionism. Nonetheless, this does not imply that we should underestimate the fact that Nietzsche’s image of Socrates was not only a negative one: Nietzsche was able, with and through Socrates, to elaborate  one of his most important proposals (i.e., Socrates as a musician), although he did not developed it to its last consequences.…”
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STATISTIC METHODS OF TOURIST INFORMATION SYSTEMATIZATION by A. O. Ovcharov

“…The new term "statistical reductionism" is introduced, characterizing the problem of summarizing the whole statistical methodology to formal models designing. …”
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Epistemology and Ontology of the Quality. An Introduction to the Enactive Approach to Qualitative Ontology by Andrea Pace Giannotta

“…The issue of the location of the qualities of experience and reality leads to thematize the “clash” between the scientific and the manifest image, which also lays at the heart of the issues of naturalism and reductionism in the philosophy of mind. I argue that a transcendental version of the enactive approach constitutes a fruitful way to address these issues, thanks to its conception of the relation between subject and object as dependent co-origination. …”
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The scientific nature of traditional Chinese medicine in the post-modern era by Yongyan Wang

“…In the post-modern era, “people-oriented” medical values will lead to integrations between science and humanities, holism and reductionism, imagery-based thinking and conceptual thinking, systematic research and descriptive research, and evidence-based medicine and narrative medicine. …”
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Mettere alla prova la sociologia pragmatica: le teorie cospirative come oggetto di ricerca by Enrico Caniglia

“…It shows as Pragmatic Sociology manages to avoid the conspirationism typical of Bourdieu’s critical sociology, and the reductionism of Boudon’s sociology as well. However, Boltanski and Latour are not immune to the attitude to pathologize Conspirative Theory. …”
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La ciencia política, ciencia noética del orden. by Felipe Cárdenas Támara., Luisa Fernanda Suárez Rozo.

“…History, Epistemology and Perspectives of Political Science, 2008); ii) to reflect on the theoretical reductionism in the conceptualization of the object of study of political science, present in some contemporary schools of thought, and, iii) to suggest the need to expand our understanding of our political reality from the intellectual perspective proposed by Eric Voegelin, who argued that political science is a noetic scientific discipline centered on the study of order and the experience of order in societies and human cultures. …”
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Complex simplicity of the art work by Ljubinka Jovanović Mihailović by Rosić Tiodor R.

“…Apostrophized, accordingly, have been also geometric sections, wide colored surfaces - often in color contrast between dark, ultramarine, purple, gold, silver colors, which makes a unique mix of picturesque chromatic changes in the painting of Ljubinka Jovanović Mihailović. The object reductionism of her paintings has been highlighted, as well as the coloristic symbiosis with Serbian-Byzantine frescoes and icons.…”
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Superweniencja – pytanie o trywialność by Błażej Brzostek

“…The presence of anomalous monism with its lack of (the) laws concerning mental events and multiple realizability led to a doubt regarding reductionism and a slow movement away from it. It did not, however, weaken the popularity of physicalism. …”
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KAS YRA NEHIUMISTINĖ PRIEŽASTINGUMO TEORIJA? by Vytautas Grenda

“…He argues that the crucial issue in the controversies investigated is the acceptance or rejection of reductionism with respect to causation. Keywords: causation, analytical philosophy, David Hume…”
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ANÁLlSE INSTITUCIONAL DO MECANISMO DE PAGAMENTO POR SERVICOS AMBIENTAIS: o Projeto Conservador das Águas em Extrema - MG by Rafael Eduardo Chiodi, Bruno Peregrina Puga, Oscar Sarcinelli

“…However, there are limitations and concerns that the mechanism leads to economic reductionism to deal with complex problems that concerns to the relatlons between society and environment.…”
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Getting Real: Ockham on the Human Contribution to the Nature and Production of Artifacts by Jenny Pelletier

“…The article submits that a myopic focus on Ockham’s indisputable reductionism does not exhaust what is metaphysically interesting and relevant about artifacts.…”
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Person-centered medicine and psychiatry – Emerging perspectives by Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, Arun Enara

“…The concept of person centered care has evolved over the years and the main focus has been on moving further away from biological reductionism that has plagued western medicine. In the recent years, a critical evaluation of the current practices in psychiatry and the emerging lived experience research has helped garner momentum to the narratives around person centered care. …”
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