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Reductionism's Demise: Cold Comfort
Author(s) -
Wacome Donald H.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00576.x
Subject(s) - physicalism , reductionism , epistemology , philosophy , dualism , supervenience , nothing , demise , philosophy of mind , property (philosophy) , metaphysics , political science , law
. Nonreductive physicalism, as opposed to reductionism, enjoys wide popularity by virtue of being regarded as comporting with the traditional image of human beings as free and ontologically unique without the difficulties of mind‐body dualism. A consideration of reasons, both good and bad, for which reductionism is rejected suggests instead that the move to nonreductive physicalism does nothing to mitigate the implications of a physicalist account of human nature.