Reductionism is a widely endorsed methodology among biologists, a
metaphysical theory advanced to vindicate the biologist's
methodology, and an epistemic thesis those opposed to reductionism
have been eager to refute. While the methodology has gone from
strength to strength in its history of achievements, the
metaphysical thesis grounding it remained controversial despite its
significant changes over the last 75 years of the philosophy of
science. Meanwhile, antireductionism about biology, and especially
Darwinian natural selection, became orthodoxy in philosophy of
mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology. This
Element expounds the debate about reductionism in biology, from the
work of the post-positivists to the end of the century debates
about supervenience, multiple realizability, and explanatory
exclusion. It shows how the more widely accepted 21st century
doctrine of 'mechanism' - reductionism with a human face - inherits
both the strengths and the challenges of the view it has largely
supplanted.
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