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Problem 7 - Reduction & Reductionism (Reduction (Problems with…

- - - - D-M model the idea that all science should be unifyed to a single theory
    - - connectability
        
        bridge laws: make sure concepts map nicely onto each other
        
        therefore older theory must be more or less correct
      - deducibility
        
        must be possible to deduce higher level laws from lower level laws
  - - - non-reductive materialism
        
        no bridging laws between neuroscience and psychology therefore they will stay autonomous
      - failure to incorporate psychology in basic physics therefore elemination of psycho. will follow
      - other responses
        
        new wave reductionism which is the newest form of eliminativism
        
        neuroscience with replace or reconstruct psychology
        
        Bickle
    - - supervenience
        
        supports non reductive materialsim
        
        mental processes are determined by but not reducable to material processes
      - mental is determined by physical properties of the brain but not reversed
      - dualism should be avoided
  - - - old theory is corrected and replaced
    - - at the same point in time multiple theories exist
- - - - crticism
        
        neuroscience disregards biology, culture, genetics
        
        research in isolation
        
        cognitive behaviour is not solely the product of neural mechanisms
        
        impractical / undesirable / time constraints
        
        fragmentation rather than watching the whole integrated system
    - - criticism
        
        they can both explain each other
        
        discoveries in one science increase the understanding of the other
  - - - progress & improve each other
- - - - and all it's levels of organization
  - - - new wave metascience