which includes female-on-male violence. This refusal stems from beliefs in over-arching sociological theories and ideas (like patriarchy theory) which make sweeping generalizations on gender power dynamics. The problem though, is that theories like patriarchy theory are unscientific, reductionist, and ...
Although some go too far in their attacks – arguing wrongly, for example, that we have next to nothing to learn about ourselves from our evolutionary history – such critics are, nonetheless, right to point out that in accepting the reductionist view, we risk doing ourselves a dangerous disse...
Borges and Nietzschean Ethics: Another Branch of Fantastic Literature?: The Transcendence of the WordThis study maintains that Borges's treatment of philosophy is not ironical or literarily reductionist with respect to one of its sub-disciplines: Ethics. In order to substantiate this thesis, Borges...
Also, thestralda/ksana ratiofor event-chains has an upper limit. That is, it is not possible for a given ultimate event to reappear more thanMstralda to the right or left of its original position at the next ksana ─ this is more or less equivalent to settingc»108metres/secondas the...
The current belief among many cognitive ethologists, taking the reductionist approach, is that non human non-primates do not have a theory of mind until it is experimentally proven (e.g., Terrace & Metcalf 2005 [10,55], Tomesello 2009 [108] and Penn & Povinelli [109]). Many have ...