Reductive Materialism The view that only the material world (matter) is truly real, and that all processes and realities observed in the universe can be explained by reducing them down to their most basic scientific components,

Reductive Physicalism A doctrine stating that everything in the world can be reduced down to its fundamental physical, or material, basis. For this reason, the word "physicalism" is often used interchangeably with the

very different views here: A reductive view of physicalism or materialism and a non-reductive view of materialism or physicalism. First of all, I want to try to make that distinction clear to you. And in both this talk and the one after lunch,

idealism , and reductive materialism . Murphy then cites scientific evidence for nonreducibility: interactions with the environment portray an entity as part of a larger system and entail both top-down and whole-part analyses which