Word: reductionists
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...humanities. While such scientific research has its uses, reports like this subtly reinforce the idea that science is the best, if not the only, way of knowing. Even your cover picture implied that a question as mysterious as our capacity for good and evil could be answered with the reductionist idea that it's all in our brains. Luke Tia, Gainesville...
...nature.These questions should be equally explored from the perspective of the humanities. Reports like this subtly reinforce the idea that science is the best way of knowing. Even your cover picture implied that a question as mysterious as our capacity for good and evil could be answered with the reductionist idea that it's all in our brains. Luke Tiagainesville, Florida...
...equally explored from the perspective of the humanities. Reports like this subtly reinforce the idea that science is the best, if not the only, way of knowing. Even your cover picture implied that a question as mysterious as our capacity for good and evil could be answered with the reductionist idea that it's all in our brains...
...That's too bad, because the rest of Japan has moved on from the reductionist U.S. good/China bad (or vice versa) matrix of the cold war era. The Japanese public, newly confident of their nation's place in the world but worried about economic concerns back home, deserves better than an old guard. Abe's predecessor Junichiro Koizumi, himself heir to a minor political dynasty, created the impression of trimming family political ties by installing private-sector civilians in key leadership posts. But Abe's most recent Cabinet re-embraced the political nobility - and neither Fukuda...
...England wealthy? And Clark's social Darwinism doesn't explain why equally stable and sophisticated societies in China and India industrialized at different rates, or how they have managed to become capitalist powerhouses in only a generation. At best, A Farewell to Alms is woefully naive; at worst, willfully reductionist. But Clark is right on a least one point: the industrialized world's prescription for affluence - good government, efficient markets and generous transfusions of foreign aid - has done little to spread prosperity to countries like Malawi. As he writes, "There is no simple economic medicine that will guarantee growth...