Re: Interview with Mayr

From: John Edser (edser_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 03:07:21 +0000 (UTC)

 "Lennart Kiil" <kiilx@xtele2adsl.dk> wrote:
> > Reductionism is not dead - in fact it is one of the main foundation
> > stones of the scientific method.

> LK:-
> This is certainly true, reductionism is a viable scientific
> method. I think
> and hope that what Mayr meant was that we cannot understand
> nature and gain
> complete knowledge of its workings by just examinig it from the smallest
> level we can detect. In other words it is one-leveled exclusive
> epistemological reductionism that is dead (if such a caricature
> ever existed
> in the first place).

JE:-
Could you please expand on what you
mean within evolutionary theory by:
".. one-leveled exclusive
epistemological reductionism that is dead"

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

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