debates summary

nature vs nurture

• nativists (nature)

• empiricists (nurture)

• interactions (diathesis-stress)

free will vs determinism

• biological determinism (genetics)

• environmental determinism (external factors)

• psychic determinism (fears and desires)

reductionism vs holism

• reductionism (reducing theories to components) - parsimony

• holism (looking at things as a whole) - Gestalt

• levels of reduction