Reductionism and Practicality
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Reductionism and Practicality
Like most domains of science, the study of the mind has been tackled at many scales of analysis, from the behavior of large groups of people (economics and ecology), to the diffusion of ions across cellular membranes (molecular biology and biophysics). At each of these scales, researchers often believe that the critical phenomena of interest, and the most powerful explanatory constructs and mec...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Inquiry
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1047-840X,1532-7965
DOI: 10.1080/1047840x.2011.551323