Reductionism

thumb|René Descartes, in De homine (1662), claimed that non-human animals could be explained reductively as automata; meaning essentially as more mechanically complex versions of this [[Digesting Duck.]]

theory holding that social progress is shaped by technological progress

Epistemological razor regarding the burden of proof

concept in political and social sciences

philosophical view expounded by Bertrand Russell

in the philosophy of mind, a physicalist theory asserting that mental events can be grouped into types, and can then be correlated with types of physical events in the brain

solution approach where the problem is broken down into parts that can be solved independently of each other, by separating the what from the how

belief that natural wholes are composed of parts lacking any intrinsic relationship to each other

Sciences other than fundamental physics