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Reductionism


. . . .As the rest of scientific change through three centuries has shown, reduction is the most powerful way to correct, deepen, and broader scientific theory. And, by and large, it is the only way to make techno9logy based on it reliable enough to employ. It is still early days for molecular biology as subdiscipline. A half century or so from Watson & Crick’s breakthrough is not exactly the blink of an eye, but it is a short time by the standards of scientific change. Yet molecular biologists would be right to feel vindicated in their commitment to reductionism as a research strategy. Their discoveries have been surprising and have begun to do the work of correcting prior theory and enhancing predictive success in at least some areas of medicine, agriculture, and bioengineering. And nothing in the laboratory has arisen to suggest impediments to the research program of reductionism. - page 7
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What everyone, reductionist or antireductionist, will grant is that there are many explanations now provided for biological processes which are accepted as appropriate to the contexts in which they are given. That is, there are explanations at various levels of detail for, to take a well-known example, sexual recombination. Some are appropriate to the secondary-school student's context of biological inquiry; some to the university student's background knowledge and ability to understand; and there is a context of inquiry characteristic of the biological specialist, to which a more complicated and more detailed explanation of recombination in terms of the stage and substages of meiosis is appropriate. ~ Page 13/14
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