Reductionism in Everyday Life, Technology, and Science - An Exploration of What is Concealed and Revealed in Practice

In this paper, I draw upon a diverse selection of observations made by philosophers and scientists to think about habitual ways in which human beings reduce things in their world to a convenient subset of their total properties. This is a natural and important activity, however in invoking Heidegger...

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Main Author:	Paul D. Nugent
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2018-08-01
Series:	Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
Subjects:	technology philosophy science art
Online Access:	http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/IP056LL18.pdf

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spelling	doaj-c1d67bd274e94215a2804fc2fceacfbf2021-03-27T15:02:42ZengInternational Institute of Informatics and CyberneticsJournal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics1690-45242018-08-011644751Reductionism in Everyday Life, Technology, and Science - An Exploration of What is Concealed and Revealed in PracticePaul D. NugentIn this paper, I draw upon a diverse selection of observations made by philosophers and scientists to think about habitual ways in which human beings reduce things in their world to a convenient subset of their total properties. This is a natural and important activity, however in invoking Heidegger's concept of Enframing, we can establish a vantage point from which to think about tensions and issues that this introduces to various spheres of human activity.http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/IP056LL18.pdf technologyphilosophyscienceart
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title	Reductionism in Everyday Life, Technology, and Science - An Exploration of What is Concealed and Revealed in Practice
title_short	Reductionism in Everyday Life, Technology, and Science - An Exploration of What is Concealed and Revealed in Practice
title_full	Reductionism in Everyday Life, Technology, and Science - An Exploration of What is Concealed and Revealed in Practice
title_fullStr	Reductionism in Everyday Life, Technology, and Science - An Exploration of What is Concealed and Revealed in Practice
title_full_unstemmed	Reductionism in Everyday Life, Technology, and Science - An Exploration of What is Concealed and Revealed in Practice
title_sort	reductionism in everyday life, technology, and science - an exploration of what is concealed and revealed in practice
publisher	International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics
series	Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
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publishDate	2018-08-01
description	In this paper, I draw upon a diverse selection of observations made by philosophers and scientists to think about habitual ways in which human beings reduce things in their world to a convenient subset of their total properties. This is a natural and important activity, however in invoking Heidegger's concept of Enframing, we can establish a vantage point from which to think about tensions and issues that this introduces to various spheres of human activity.
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Reductionism in Everyday Life, Technology, and Science - An Exploration of What is Concealed and Revealed in Practice

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