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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Smith, Joseph Wayne

Titel

Reductionism and Cultural Being : A Philosophical Critique of Sociobiological Reductionism and Physicalist Scientific Unificationism

Ist Teil von

• Nijhoff International Philosophy Series : 14

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

1984

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 1 Statement of the argument: Philosophical orientation and the theoretical framework for critique -- 1 Introduction: The statement of the overall argument -- 2 Rebuttal of the methodological criticism of the argumentative structure of the work -- 2 Philosophico-methodological reductionism: The alleged case against Culturology -- 1 Introductory statement of the argument: Culturology and the idea of a philosophico-methodological reduction -- 2 Systematizing the critique -- 3 Monistic-Systemic Perspectivism and the �́�crisis of Sociology�́� -- 4 A response to the Ellis�́�Skinner critique of the fundamental assumption of Culturology -- 5 Conclusion: The state of the argument -- 3 Theoretical reductionism and physicalist scientific unificationism: The case against -- 1 Introductory statement of the argument -- 2 The Weltanschauung of Physicalist Scientific Unificationism -- 3 Systematizing the argument: Sociobiology and PSU -- 4 Culturology, sociobiology and theoretical re
• 5 Unification without reduction; Philosophy without physicalism -- 6 Conclusion: The state of the argument -- 4 Causal-explanatory reductionism I: A philosophico-biological critique of Sociobiology -- 1 Introductory state of the argument -- 2 The theoretical foundations of the neo-Darwinist synthesis and an explanation of the theoretical structure of sociobiology -- 3 Towards a critique of Sociobiology -- 4 Conclusion: The state of the argument -- 5 Causal-explanatory reductionism II: The metaphysics of the selfish gene -- 1 Introductory state of the argument -- 2 The nature of the gene: Mendelian genetics, quantitative genetics and molecular biology -- 3 Beyond neo-Darwinism: The search for a new science of life -- 4 Conclusion: The state of the argument -- 6 Causal-explanatory reductionism III: Neuroendocrinological reductionism and the rationality of the foundations of feminist social theory -- 1 Introductory state of the argument -- 2 Initial outline of the (NECER) positions --^
• 3 The conceptual and biological background -- 4 A critique of the positions -- 5 Scepticism about sex-related cognitive differences -- 6 General conclusion: The state of the argument -- 7 Causal-explanatory reductionism IV: Ecological Sociobiology and cultural materialism -- 1 Introductory statement of the argument -- 2 Central theoretical presuppositions of Emlen�́�s Ecological Sociobiology -- 3 A critique of Ecological Sociobiology -- 4 Harris�́� cultural materialism: An exposition -- 5 The case against Cultural Materialism -- 6 Conclusion: The state of the argument -- 8 Reductionism and cultural being: Beings, agents, mentalities, persons and societies in the universe -- 1 Introductory state of the argument -- 2 Culturology and models of human nature -- 3 Culturology, innateness and the human essence -- 4 Culturology defined and defended: Beings, agents, mentalities, persons and societies in the universe -- 5 Conclusion: The state of the argument --^
• Conclusion: The state of the overall argument of the work -- Appendix 1: Sociobiology and ideology -- Appendix 2: A critique of Alexander Rosenberg�́�s Sociobiology and the preemption of social science -- Notes