The article points to various alarming tendencies of dehumanization modern medical education in Russia and the world. Apart from economical political solutions, suggests address most fundamental reason for negative attitude humanitarian subjects biomedical struggle between reductionist holistic worldviews. While biomedicine is increasingly dominated by an rigid reductionism, which reduces livin...

ALife has always been centrally concerned with the nature and origins of emergent phenomena and their anti-reductionist implications for our understanding of complex systems. I argue that the traditional approach to understanding emergent phenomena in physical systems is still fundamentally reductionist, and outline an anti-reductionist alternative. Contemporary debate about emergence can only ...

Reductionism is the dominant stance of biology. According to this perspective, biological phenomena have to fit with physical explanations. Some biologists thought that the introduction of the idea of program was a sound way to overcome both physicalism and reductionism. We argue instead that the introduction of information theory into biology did not liberate biology from reductionism. We argu...

For the last 50 years the dominant stance in experimental biology has been reductionism in general, and genetic reductionism in particular. Philosophers were the first to realize that the belief that theMendelian genes were reduced to DNAmolecules was questionable. Soon, experimental data confirmed these misgivings. The optimism of molecular biologists, fueled by early success in tackling relat...

Reductionism is the idea that all of the complex and apparently disparate things we observe in the world can be explained in terms of universal principles governing their common ultimate constituents: that physics is the theory of everything. Antireductionism comes in two varieties: epistemological and ontological. Epistemological antireductionism holds that, given our finite mental capacities,...

holism versus reductionism, process algebra, object orientated programming, philosophy of biology One of the great current debates in biology concerns whether the observed behaviour of a system can be accounted for in terms of the behaviours of its subcomponents. The problem is often presented as a question of ‘holism versus reductionism’; whether ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts...