Response to Belot's "Whose Devil? Which Details?"

Batterman, Robert (2004) Response to Belot's "Whose Devil? Which Details?".

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Abstract

I respond to Belot's argument and defend the view that sometimes "fundamental" are explanatorily inadequate and need to be supplemented with certain aspects of less fundamental "theories emeritus."

Commentary on:Belot, Gordon (2003) Whose Devil? Which Details?.
EPrint Type:Preprint
Keywords:Explanation, Asymptotics, Intertheoretic Relations
Subjects:General Issues: Models and Idealization
General Issues: Explanation
Specific Sciences: Physics
ID Code:1623
Deposited By:Batterman, Robert
Deposited On:18 Febuary 2004

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