Against the Attributive Reductionism:
Irreducibility of Epistemic Rationality and Incommensurability of Values
Credo New, 2010, №1.
P.66-109
Two styles of thinking are
allocated: attributive reification and constructive operationalization.
It is shown that the first one is inherent in classical metaphysics and modern
analytical philosophy/ It includes selection of
abstract qualities, i.e. attributes, their investment by essence (reification),
detection of inevitable difficulties and paradoxes, attempts of their overcoming,
often through reductionism. The corresponding criticism of instrumental
concept of epistemic rationality, as well as criticism of attempts to replace cognitive
purposes by practical ones are conducted.