Reductionism and Cultural Being: A Philosophical Critique of Sociobiological Reductionism and Physicalist Scientific Unificationism (Nijhoff International Philosophy Series, 14)

Front Matter....Pages i-vi Statement of the argument: Philosophical orientation and the theoretical framework for critique....Pages 1-6 Philosophico-methodological reductionism: The alleged case against culturology....Pages 7-37 Theoretical reductionism and physicalist scientific unificationism: The case against....Pages 39-76 Causal-explanatory reductionism I: A philosophico-biological critique of Sociobiology....Pages 77-137 Causal-explanatory reductionism II: The metaphysics of the selfish gene....Pages 139-175 Causal-explanatory reductionism III: Neuroendocrinological reductionism and the rationality of the foundations of feminist social theory....Pages 177-208 Causal-explanatory reductionism IV: Ecological Sociobiology and cultural materialism....Pages 209-235 Reductionism and cultural being: Beings, agents, mentalities, persons and societies in the universe....Pages 237-277 Conclusion....Pages 279-280 Back Matter....Pages 281-385