Transcending biological and social reductionism (Phase space)

Authors
Citation
F. Turner, Transcending biological and social reductionism (Phase space), SUB-STANCE, (94-95), 2001, pp. 220-235
Citations number
2
Categorie Soggetti
Language & Linguistics
Journal title
SUB-STANCE
ISSN journal
00492426 → ACNP
Issue
94-95
Year of publication
2001
Pages
220 - 235
Database
ISI
SICI code
0049-2426(2001):94-95<220:TBASR(>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
The sociological reductionism of poststructuralist analysis has been refute d by biological science--human beings have a nature that evolved. But bioge netic reductionism leaves out as many awkward facts as psychosocial reducti onism does. Close reading of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse indicates a n answer to the fundamental question at issue. How did meaning, freedom and value evolve in a physical universe? New understandings of the evolution o f time, and chaos-theoretical concepts of emergent self-organization and st range attractors, suggest a redefinition of "survival," the key concept of evolution, which allows plenty of room for freedom, meaning, and value.