Bridging Levels of Systemic Organization [and Comments and Reply]
| Autor: | Rodney Byrne, Charles D. Laughlin, James P. Boggs, Robert A. Rubinstein, Earl W. Count, Nancy L. Geilhufe, H. Stephen Straight, Colin Martindale, Ina Jane Wundram, Burton G. Burton-Bradley, J. Anthony Paredes, Richard Paul Chaney, Kenneth A. Korey, Ivan Brady, J. V. Ferreira, Marcus J. Hepburn, James M. Wallace, Alexander Gallus, K. J. Pataki-Schweizer, Heinz Gohring |
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| Rok vydání: | 1977 |
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| Zdroj: | Current Anthropology. 18:459-481 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5382 0011-3204 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/201927 |
| Popis: | The recent discussion relating the split-brain phenomenon in man to cognitive-behavioral correlates of interest to anthropologists (CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 17 [1-3]) raises a wider issue of profound importance to the growing field of neuro-anthropology. This is the question of how to bridge levels of systemic organization. This paper provides a solution to the problem via a consideration of the constraints placed on this process by one neuroanthropological approach-biogenetic structuralism. The paper sketches a biopsychologically grounded view of science. It then sets forth a minimal set of desiderata for a biopsychologically sophisticated theory of theory reduction. The paper shows that the "received view" of theory reduction fails to meet these empirical constraints. It proposes that an alternative, extant view of reduction, called reduction by incorporation, may serve as a possible logical infrastructure for the development of a biopsychologically informed view of theory reduction. |
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