What is "reductionists"

Usage examples of "reductionists".

If Skinner and Pavlov were reductionists, the gestaltists were holistic.

They may be invoked to privilege the personal, to protect us from a crassly reductionist biology - at its worst, vulgar sociobiology - but such attempts at privilege merely serve to harden the resolve of biological reductionists, and to encourage the fragmentation of our understanding of what can ultimately only be understood as a unitary world.