Volume 16 · Number 3 · Pages 341–342
Organism versus Mechanism?

Gerard de Zeeuw

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Abstract

Open peer commentary on the article “Materialism and Selection Bias: Political Psychology from a Radical Constructivist Perspective” by Björn Goldstein. Abstract: While there is often good reason to study our world by abstracting properties from its parts to the point where the result can be modelled as mechanisms, there is no need to do so when humans are involved. A scientific method to help them to act has been available for some time.

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de Zeeuw G. (2021) Organism versus mechanism? Constructivist Foundations 16(3): 341–342. https://constructivist.info/16/3/341

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