Sentences with phrase «reductionist focus»

So for me, this comment highlights the pitfalls of a narrow, reductionist focus around tobacco, alcohol etc..

Psychiatrists regard troublesome emotions as emerging from inborn error of neurochemical trafficking, with a reductionist focus on serotonin.

But Willard would critique «right wing theology,» too, and the reductionist focus on the individual forgiveness of sins.

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The effect in English «Latin Mass circles», however, isn't the most important issue on which we need to focus, though I agree that it does show that there is something remarkably «mean - spirited» in the air, a fact which also emerged strongly in widespread attempts to frustrate the motu proprio; it also shows that although that many - faced and mysterious entity we tend simply to call «Rome» can sometimes be relied on to defend us from reductionist tendencies in the English and Welsh Church, it is also the case that all too often it can't.

And in what has for centuries been a reductionist form of understanding Christian mission, the culmination of the breakfast was a focus to simply win souls for Jesus.

He focuses upon the Pope's emphasis, which we have drawn out before in this column, that the influential depiction of reason through a reductionist philosophy of science denies reference to a transcendent organiser and can not found itself.

The reductionist mechanistic paradigm that I have called the Monoculture of the Mind promotes Monocultures, and only focuses on the yield of a few commodities.

From the perspective of the right to life, a focus on the death penalty can also be reductionist.

«Lila is a rigorous biophysical chemist, but unlike most chemists who avoid complexity and prefer reductionist type studies, Lila's whole career has been focused on applying chemistry and biophysical methods to the study of peptides and their role in biology as well as protein folding and trafficking in vivo,» says Jeffrey W. Kelly at The Scripps Research Institute.

We propose that studies using a reductionist philosophy to identify active components of whole foods, such as lycopene or sulforaphane, should continue, but with additional investments in research focusing on changes in dietary pattern incorporating whole foods which are safe and potentially more effective.

While focusing the chorus around such an unappealing word is probably the point, it feels like a blase and reductionist assertion that the world is fucked anyway, so we should all be having more sex, because «everything is sex, except sex, which is power.»

They must also avoid reductionist policy fixes and focus on the hard but necessary work of, as DeVos tweeted, improving «options and outcomes for all students.»

The reason it became reductionist is because education reform is complex and has a lot of ground to cover, so people thought they'd focus on a few things and get that moving and then figure out the rest later.

Fortunately, we possess an extensive evidence base of clinical information to serve as a background against which interventions and strategies may be compared.29, 30 Implementing mandatory ACE survey completion for every admission provides a mechanism for shifting from a diagnosis - driven, reductionist, medical treatment model to include the trauma - focused dimension of care that is more tuned to the individual's needs.