‘‘Geneticization’’ is a term used to describe the ways in which the science of genetics is influencing society at large and medicine in particular; it has important implications for the process of diagnostics. Because genetic diagnostics produces knowledge about genetic disease and predisposition to disease, it is essentially influenced by these innovations in the disease concept. In this paper...

FOR "THE IRRELEVANCE/INCOHERENCE OF NON-REDUCTIONISM ABOUT PERSONAL IDENTITY" Before being able to answer key practical questions dependent on a criterion of personal identity (e.g., am I justified in anticipating surviving the death of my body?), we must first determine which general approach to the issue of personal identity is more plausible, reductionism or non-reductionism. While reduction...

This paper aims to critically examine Redondo’s characterization of normative legal positivism’s theory concepts, as well set forth some potential strategies for defending the two other theories concepts that Redondo criticizes: Dworkinian interpretivism and Rossian reductionism.

Contemporary neuroscience links together soma and society in complex ways, casting the brain as the locus of a matrix of reciprocal interactions between soma and society. Accordingly, critiques of such research which revolve around its perceived ‘reductionism’ and ‘determinism’ are rendered somewhat problematic. That is not to say, however, that a critical sociology of neuroscience is redundant...