Dizadji-Bahmani, Foad and Frigg, Roman and Hartmann, Stephan (2010) Who's Afraid of Nagelian Reduction? [Preprint]

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Abstract

We reconsider the Nagelian theory of reduction and argue that, contrary to a widely held view, it is the right analysis of intertheoretic reduction, since the alleged difficulties of the theory either vanish upon closer inspection or turn out to be substantive philosophical questions rather than knock-down arguments.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Dizadji-Bahmani, Foad Frigg, Roman Hartmann, Stephan
Additional Information:	This paper will appear in Erkenntnis.
Keywords:	Reduction, bridge laws, multiple realisability
Subjects:	General Issues > Reductionism/Holism Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism
Depositing User:	Stephan Hartmann
Date Deposited:	30 Apr 2010
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:19
Item ID:	5323
Subjects:	General Issues > Reductionism/Holism Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism
Date:	April 2010
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/5323

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