Tag: Reductionism
Can Everything Be Reduced to Data?
“Dataism is at odds with human flourishing. It’s difficult to find a Renaissance moment in this ruinous reductionism.”
Emergence by Design
The originators of the concept were two 19th-century British philosopher-scientists, John Stuart Mill and George Henry Lewes.
David Berlinski on the Immaterial, Alan Turing, and the Mystery of Life Itself
If scientists thought that life’s origin and nature would soon yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed.
New! Philosopher and Mathematician David Berlinski on “Science After Babel”
“Many will read this book for the close, elegant reasoning, the astonishing erudition, or the mordant analysis. I confess I read it for the prose.”
Aeschliman on Three Great Authors Critiquing Scientism
These include the philosopher Blaise Pascal, who showed that scientific knowledge on its own could never be sufficient for being fully human.