Titlebook: Reductionism and Cultural Being; A Philosophical Crit Joseph Wayne Smith Book 1984 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague 1984 materialism.

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Statement of the argument: Philosophical orientation and the theoretical framework for critique,overall argument of the work. Second I shall give some discussion and defense of the philosophical orientation of the work itself, and defend the project against some arguments which critics may advance to discredit, devalue and reject, the overall project. Such critical self-reflexivity is necessar

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Philosophico-methodological reductionism: The alleged case against culturology,al programme, either in general, or specifically with regards to the explanation and understanding of human behaviour. The epistemological and methodological criticisms advanced against both a human Sociobiology and Sociobiology in general (summarized in [Ruse, 1979]), have been advanced to establis

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Causal-explanatory reductionism I: A philosophico-biological critique of Sociobiology, biological critique can be made of Sociobiology. This claim in itself is interesting and controversial, but is not exceedingly radical. The arguments developed by Richard Burian [1978], Richard Lewontin [1977] and the Sociobiology Study Group [1977], would seem to strike at the heart of any attempt

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Causal-explanatory reductionism II: The metaphysics of the selfish gene,there that the faultes must be extended one stage further. It was stated there that the faults with Sociobiology illustrated basic defects in tge neo-Darwinist position. My precious argument was concerned quite extensively with the semantical, logical and methodological defects of neo-Darwinism. The

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Conclusion,t a “reduction” of Culturology/Sociology to Sociobiology, in total or in part is theoretically possible. It has been argued in this work that the PSU idea of the unification of sciences by theoretical reduction to physics is not merely unjustified, but is a claim which upon analysis is quite obscure

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