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050 4 $aQ175.32.R47$bR34 2013
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100 1 $aRae, Alastair I. M.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aReductionism :$ba beginner's guide /$cAlastair I.M. Rae.
264 1 $aLondon :$bOneworld,$c2013.
264 4 $c℗♭2013
300 $ax, 204 pages :$billustrations ;$c20 cm.
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490 1 $aOneworld beginners' guides
500 $a"A Oneworld paperback original"--Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 194-196) and index.
505 0 $aI reduce -- The building blocks of matter -- Why water is wet and ice is hard -- The chemistry of life -- Neurons and the brain -- Can we reduce the mind? -- Society and the individual -- Reducing the quantum -- Conclusions.
520 $aEver since the ancient Greeks conceived of the atom, humans have sought the smallest ingredients of our existence. In the past century, the use of reductionism to understand behavior has gained steam as the quantum universe and the workings of the human mind have been uncovered; still there are those who say that reductionists are oversimplifying our world. Here, acclaimed physicist Alastair Rae spells out how the powerful tool of reductionism works, from the level of subatomic particles, up through molecular chemistry, and beyond to our neural networks.
650 0 $aReductionism.
830 0 $aOneworld beginners' guides.
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