{"id":7515,"date":"2019-04-02T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=7515"},"modified":"2019-04-02T16:40:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T20:40:19","slug":"does-reductionism-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/04\/02\/does-reductionism-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Does reductionalism exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw040219-4.jpg\" alt=\"Does reductionism exist?\" class=\"wp-image-7505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw040219-4.jpg 318w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw040219-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw040219-4-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw040219-4-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><figcaption>Does reductionalism exist?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you mean reductionism? (without the &#8220;al&#8221;?) Yes. It&#8217;s a thing, and and appears mostly in the context of philosophical treatments of empiricism and positivism. Here&#8217;s a helpful entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP): <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/sep-reduction\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/sep-reduction<\/a>. &#8220;Reductionalism&#8221; appears once in error in the SEP in the title of an article by Richard Rorty in a bibliographic entry. It should be &#8220;Reductionism.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you mean reductionism? (without the &#8220;al&#8221;?) Yes. It&#8217;s a thing, and and appears mostly in the context of philosophical treatments of empiricism and positivism. Here&#8217;s a helpful entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP): http:\/\/bit.ly\/sep-reduction. &#8220;Reductionalism&#8221; appears once in error in the SEP in the title of an article by Richard Rorty in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/04\/02\/does-reductionism-exist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does reductionalism exist?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[548,547],"class_list":["post-7515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reductionalism","tag-reductionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}