Biology and ideology : the uses of reductionism / Martin Barker -- Human nature and social explanation / Janna L. Thompson -- On oppositions to reductionism / Hilary Rose and Steven Rose -- Cleaving the mind : speculations on conceptual dichotomies / Lynda Birke -- The ideology of medicine / Lesley Rogers -- Disease models and reductionist thinking in the biomedical sciences / Giorgio Bignami -- Hierarchical structures and structural descriptions / Giacomo Gava -- Holism and reductionism are compatible / Allan Muir -- Matter, information and their interaction in memory processes / Lauro Galzigna -- Reduction reassessed / Werner Callebaut
Analysis
Biology Determinism
Notes
Papers presented at a conference held in Bressanone, Italy, Mar. 26-30, 1980