Reductionism's demise: Cold comfort

Zygon

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 321-337

  Wacome, Donald H ^a  

^a Northwestern College Orance City   (United States)

Author keywords

Freedom; Mind body dualism; Nonreductive physicalism; Physicalism; Reductionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748362258     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00576.x     Document Type: Article

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