Reductionism: Analysis and the Fullness of Reality

Bucknell University Press (2000)
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Reductionism’s approach brings together many of the most interesting questions today in philosophy and in science . It also presents a brief history of how reductionism has developed in Western philosophy and religion, with reference to Indian philosophy on certain issues

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9781611481181   161148118X   0838754392

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