{"id":194929,"date":"2024-08-22T05:25:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T10:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/michael-ruse-philosophy-of-reductionism-emergence"},"modified":"2024-08-22T05:25:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T10:25:07","slug":"michael-ruse-philosophy-of-reductionism-emergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/michael-ruse-philosophy-of-reductionism-emergence","title":{"rendered":"Michael Ruse \u2014 Philosophy of Reductionism &amp; Emergence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S39nn-lKAtw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Follow Closer To Truth on Instagram for interesting articles, announcements, and giveaways: <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/p2IhM\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/p2IhM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can biology be explained entirely in terms of chemistry and then physics? If so, that\u2019s \u201creductionism.\u201d Or are there \u201cemergent\u201d properties at higher levels of the hierarchy of life that cannot be explained by properties at lower or more basic levels?<\/p>\n<p>Watch more videos on the philosophy of biology: <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/0D92A\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/0D92A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Ruse is the Lucyle T. Wekmeister Professor and Director of the History and Philosophy of Science Program at Florida State University.<\/p>\n<p>Get exclusive member benefits with a free Closer To Truth account: <a href=\"https:\/\/closertotruth.com\/\">https:\/\/closertotruth.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world\u2019s greatest thinkers exploring humanity\u2019s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/michael-ruse-philosophy-of-reductionism-emergence\">Continue reading \u201cMichael Ruse \u2014 Philosophy of Reductionism &amp; Emergence\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow Closer To Truth on Instagram for interesting articles, announcements, and giveaways: https:\/\/shorturl.at\/p2IhM Can biology be explained entirely in terms of chemistry and then physics? If so, that\u2019s \u201creductionism.\u201d Or are there \u201cemergent\u201d properties at higher levels of the hierarchy of life that cannot be explained by properties at lower or more basic levels? Watch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}