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To set the stage for writing about reductionism, it may help first to review briefly the history of philosophy associated with, as it was known historically, the mind-body problem. However, mind-brain will be used here instead of mind-body. The four basic views are diagrammatically summarized in Fig. 1.
Diagrammatic representation of the mind-brain relationship problem
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Thomas, R.K. (2019). Reductionism. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_757-1
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